The Ghost of Rachel in the Nile Bar and Grill Thoughts on Torah Portion Va-Yigash (retold, 2025) ©Rabbi Mordecai Finley A ...

One of the most dramatic moments in the Tanach occurs when Joseph reveals his true identity to his brothers. This story ...

Through this, we will all merit – through self-sacrifice and by the light ... And He said: I am the Lord, God of Abraham your father and God of Isaac.” And we await to hear what important ...

A symbol of sustenance, a sign of the covenant, and metaphor for the sources of our sustaining existence — God and our ...

While the story of Cain and Abel ends with a brutal murder, among the descendants of Abraham, there is reconciliation. All three stories – Ishmael and Isaac ... is willing to sacrifice himself ...

158.8 x 138.5 cm. (62.5 x 54.5 in.) ...

Fortunately, the Lord provided a ram as an appropriate sacrifice just in the nick of time. Isaac certainly had done nothing to warrant his father’s actions, but he obediently was prepared to be ...

81 x 65 cm. (31.9 x 25.6 in.) ...

Abraham in turn Isaac, in turn Jacob ... Israelite religion has animal sacrifice; Judaism has prayer. Israelite religion is located primarily in the homeland of Israel; Judaism is found in ...

On 21 July, 1969 Neil Armstrong, the first human being to set foot on the moon, uttered the famous words: “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Our three small steps towards heaven ...

Yossi knew that now it was his mission to continue the Jewish people’s battle for survival – a mission that started with our ...

“Paul Celan’s poems reach us, but we miss them,” wrote the philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer, giving succinct expression to the ...