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That’s what the biblical Rebekah experienced during her pregnancy with Jacob and Esau. She suffered terrible pains, unlike anything she'd ever felt before. She asked other women if...
Jewish tradition certainly seems to think so. Take the story of Jacob and Esau, those eternally feuding twins from the Book of Genesis. Their very names, given at birth, are loaded...
We know the story: a hungry Esau, returning from the fields, famished, practically trades his birthright for a bowl of lentil stew. But was it just about the food? The traditional ...
Take Isaac, for example. His life, as the great compilation Legends of the Jews tells us, reads like a mirror image of his father Abraham's. Abraham had to leave his homeland. So d...
The Torah tells us that Rebekah, knowing what was right and divinely inspired, took matters into her own hands to make sure that Jacob, not Esau, received Isaac’s blessing. But tha...
Isaac, son of Abraham, certainly did. The text tells us that as Isaac neared the age his mother Sarah had reached when she passed – 123 years old – he began to contemplate his own ...
It's a painful scene. The text tells us he was in tears, his body bowed with the weight of it all. He didn’t want to do it! But Rebekah, driven by her own convictions, was insisten...
The story of Jacob and Esau, and their mother Rebekah's intervention, is a wild ride, full of trickery and profound implications. Jacob, you see, was still hesitant about Rebekah's...
We know the story: Jacob, disguised, steals the blessing meant for his brother, Esau. But what about the details, the nuances that get lost in the broad strokes of the narrative? L...
