The patriarch Jacob, my namesake (Jacob Shmuel) of whom we have read the past few weeks in the Bible, is the most maligned of all the patriarchs.
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The patriarch Jacob, my namesake (Jacob Shmuel) of whom we have read the past few weeks in the Bible, is the most maligned of all the patriarchs.
In this week’s Parsha we read of Abraham, the first Jew, and the first to discover a Creator. For a moment, let us contrast God’s revelation at Sinai when He gave the Torah
None of us will ever adequately understand why God decimated humanity with a flood. When I was a child I loved the reading of Noah because the flood was so exciting,
In this week’s Torah Reading - Bereishis - we reembark on the annual cycle, returning to the very beginning of the Bible — Genesis.