Shemot Rabbah (1:32) teaches that when Moshe lived in the palace, he observed that the Hebrew slaves had no opportunity for ...

We essentially came incredibly close to killing a sibling on a national level. Kayin and Hevel all over again. We hadn’t ...

Jewish academic and Hebrew scholar Irene Lancaster reflects on what the Exodus story can teach us in the face of another ...

Some blessings are more glowing than others, but one thing is utterly clear in his words – Ya’akov knows his children and ...

Yosef and the Evil Eye At the end of the book of Bereishit, we have the blessings that Yaakov bestows on his sons before he ...

This is full teshuvah (repentance) as defined by Rambam (Hebrew acronym for Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon AKA Maimonides): not just regret and confession (which the brothers engaged in when in prison ...

The prophet obviously does not use the expression "the West," but employs a parallel term from the Hebrew tradition ... As Rashi explains (on Bereshit 36:43), one of Esav’s princes, "Magdi ...

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In Bereshit, the book of Genesis ... The word honey, or “dvash” in Hebrew, has the same numerical value as the words “Av Harachamim,” Father of Mercy. Jews hope that God will be merciful ...