But with the destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans in 70 CE, the pilgrimage Hajj aspect of the week long harvest festival of Sukkot, began a gradual decline in the spiritual consciousness of ...

In Konstantin Flavitsky’s vivid 1855 painting, we witness the moment Joseph’s brothers sell him into slavery — a scene from ...

tolerant and humanistic Religious Zionism that characterized the Mizrachi movement founded in 1902 by Rabbi Isaac Jacob Reines and today’s radically messianic, hawkish and racist party that ...

In the sacrifice of Isaac, Abraham called G^d’s bluff ... Only those as honest as Jacob might trick themselves into honest results. Joseph used his beauty to become favored by the powerful ...

Descending from distinguished ancestors, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Joseph is one of the most revered men in Islamic theology. Muslims believe that he was gifted with prophetic visions. As Al-Kisai ...

Ninety years have passed, and they were still assuming that Joseph would kill them after the death of their father. At the famed encounter of Jacob with Esau upon the former’s return ...

Along this route, you are walking on the actual road Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, and King David walked on multiple times. Today this area (liberated by the IDF during the 1967 Six Day War ...

Abraham lived for 100 years, Isaac died at 60 and Jacob at 68. King David died at ... Then it separated into the line of the carpenter Joseph and the young maiden, Mary. Joseph, the carpenter ...

Abraham, Isaac and Jacob weren’t really Jewish ... In fact, according to the rabbinical definition of Judaism, the national hero: Joseph Trumpeldor; a man who was one of the founders of ...