Post The Real Reason so many Nobel Prize Winners are Jewish Although they were twins, Jacob (Yaakov) and Esau couldn’t have been more different. Esau was a skillful hunter, an outdoorsman while his younger brother Jacob was a meditative and thoughtful… Read More
Post The Truth About Jacob’s Lentil Stew Esau returned home from the field to find Jacob cooking lentil stew. Famished from a tiring day of hunting, Esau demanded that Jacob give him some lentil stew to eat,… Read More
Post The Twelve Tribes: the Key to Israel’s Nationhood The story of Jacob and his wives is far more than a biographical account. It is, in fact, the beginnings of the nation that takes its name from Jacob’s second… Read More
Post What does Joseph have to do with the redemption? The city of Shechem is mentioned as one of the first places Abraham passed through when he arrived in Canaan (Genesis 12:5). Later in the Bible, Dina, the daughter of… Read More
Post What Happened to the Lost Tribes of Israel? The return of the lost tribes of Israel and Judah is of great concern as having all twelve tribes together is an essential element to bring about the End of… Read More
Post What is Unique About Benjamin? Benjamin was Jacob’s only son born in the holy land, coincidentally right after Jacob’s name was changed to Israel. Rachel named her second son with her dying breath ‘Ben-oni’ (בֶּן־אוֹנִי)…. Read More
Post Where is biblical Dothan? After settling in Hebron, Jacob’s sons (minus Joseph) traveled north to herd their flocks in Shechem. Jacob, now called Israel, sends Joseph to meet his brothers. Joseph arrives in Shechem,… Read More
Post Who really sold Joseph into slavery? Sending his beloved son Joseph to visit his brothers after his dreams depicting his future grandeur may have been an error on the part of Jacob, but dressing him in… Read More
Post Who was the angel that Jacob fought? Jacob is perhaps the Biblical character whose life is more closely followed than any other, with the Torah following his conflict with his brother while still in the womb and… Read More
Post Who were the Midianites? After the ten brothers put Joseph in a pit, a group of Midianite traders happened along and took Joseph to Egypt where he was sold to Potiphar. That ill-intentioned act… Read More
