In our ASL translation, Jacob, who was hairless and smooth-skinned, has a name sign that can be back-translated literally to English as “smooth arm skin,” whereas his twin, Esau, who was notoriously ...
Thus afterlife is felt to be a reunion and all of life a preparation for it … Death is not understood as the end of being but rather as the end of doing. As such it is a dramatic break, a radical ...
Rabbi Akiva felt that since the Bible is a word-for-word and letter-for-letter revelation from God and God ... Seventy persons mentioned in Genesis 1:5 Although the Torah asserts that Jacob’s ...