He was a heroic, legendary figure. In certain ways, his life paralleled the biblical story of Jacob, about whom the Passover Haggadah declares “arami oved avi,” “my father was a wandering ...

What the Bible and history tell us about the claim that God gave the land of Israel to Abraham and his descendants.

Jacob is permitted to assemble his own herd after his second period of indenture with Laban comes to an end. The Bible tells the story of Jacob being sent to his uncle Laban to find a wife. Laban is ...

A star is emerging from Jacob; a scepter is rising from Israel, and it smashes the brow of Moab and the foundation of all the ...

It is a mystical commentary on the Torah and on other books of the Jewish Bible. The Zohar teaches that God sits on a throne in the heavens. On that throne, there is a portrait of Jacob.

The Jacob’s Ladder is an electrical device named after a biblical “ladder to Heaven”, consisting of a pair of vertically oriented conductors that spread apart vertically. These conductors ...