genesis

A closer look at the famous midrash that opens the collection Genesis Rabbah.

A close read of four biblical verses offers a powerful insight into one of the most challenging questions religion has to answer.

The biblical source of the commandment of bikkur cholim offers a clue.

The first Jew is widely regarded as a man of faith, but he was also a man of deep love.

Isaac's wife and Jacob's mother, the second matriarch survived a difficult pregnancy and engineered the future of the Jewish people.

Israel’s third patriarch was born into great dysfunction, but found ways to create the first cohesive family in the Bible.

The first wife of Jacob endured a loveless marriage, but her story is one of perseverance.

Did Rebecca have to do wrong in order to do right?

How the matriarchs' homes resembled and inspired the Temple.

As humans and Jews we have a responsibility to take care of the earth.