The Book of Genesis, a richly annotated English translation of the Torah, captivates diverse audiences, prompting multiple ...
In the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, Abraham argues with God. Hearing the cities will be destroyed for the depravity of the ...
But each influence, real person or somewhere in the ether, needs to be judged on its own merits if we are to maintain our ...
Before the Bible tells us God commanded Abraham to go to a distant, unfamiliar land, which would be where there’s now a ...
Meet Yael Kanarek. The artist behind Toratah, a gender-swapped rewrite of the Hebrew Bible, is coming to the Bay Area.
God reveals Himself to Abraham in this week’s Torah reading (Genesis Ch. 17, verse 1) with the name “Shadai” (letters Shin, Daled, Yud). Centuries later, when God reveals Himself to Moses in Egypt, ...
When you peel back Noah's Ark to the man himself, Noah may have been righteous only relative to the evil era in which he ...
THIS WEEK, JEWS turn their attention to the Torah portion of Vayeira (Genesis 18:1-22-24). This portion is comprised of several dramatic events from which we can glean lessons to help us lead our ...
Rabbi Yitzchak reasons that G-d began the Torah this way to address a future question: “When the nations of the world say to the Jewish people, ‘You are thieves; you conquered the land of Israel from ...
It’s written to tell the story of what God has done, is doing and will do about evil’.Footnote 6 We begin by looking at the use and meanings of good and evil in order of appearance throughout Genesis ...
Intricate figures tell the story of the Book of Genesis, the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament, ...