Throughout the Scriptures, God introduces himself to his people as the “God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.” His name would be forever associated with the Jewish patriarchs as a reminder that his promise ...

This Sunday’s Old Testament church reading, according to the Revised Common Lectionary used jointly by a number of Christian denominations, contains arguably one of the oddest passages in the Bible.

This week’s Torah portion Vayechi brings the book of Genesis to a close. We spent the whole fall and winter so far reading about the difficult and complex relationships within ...

As human beings, we don’t pray in one world and live in another. We are called to have an integrity, a unity, between the way we pray and the way we live. If we live by our own whims and neglect moral ...

The pursuit of the spiritual life is not for the fainthearted. After some initial consolations and encouragement, the way of the Spirit calls forth a certain level of discipline and mentoring. The ...

(RNS) — You have, of course, heard many times the story of Jacob’s dream from this week’s Torah portion in the book of Genesis — the famous story of Jacob’s ladder. Jacob has fled from the murderous ...

In our Torah portion, Va-Yishlach, we have one of the most dramatic and vivid scenes in the Bible – Jacob wrestling with an angel. Except, in our Torah portion, it is never written that Jacob wrestled ...