The greatest Jewish theological revolution since the destruction of the Temple (70 CE) was brought about by Kabbalah. The greatest new idea about the relationship between God and humankind during the ...

Abram fell face down and God said to him: For my part, here is my covenant with you: you are to become the father of a multitude of nations. No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be ...

Terah, the father of Abram, moved his family from Ur of the Chaldeans to Haran on the way to Canaan. After his father died in Haran, “the Lord said to Abram, ‘Leave your country, your people, and your ...

I retired from my secular career a year ago this month, and last fall — with all the other kids — I went back to school. In my case, I took two semesters of Biblical Hebrew, the language of the Old ...

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Our rabbis tell us that as a reward for Abraham’s submitting to the painful procedure of circumcision, God paid him a personal visit, appearing to him at the oaks of Mamre. Ramban says this revelation ...

Yesterday, I wrote that God’s warning to Adam and Eve about eating the tree of knowledge—”for as soon as you eat of it, you shall die”—seemed like lax parenting by the Lord, since in fact Adam and Eve ...