Polonius, in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, is presented as sincere (the sincerity of the shallow), but also as an insufferably garrulous and “tedious old fool.” The character of Polonius is the one who says ...

And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebecca the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to himself for a wife. Regarding our verse, why is there so much ...

As Jacob leaves his parents’ home at the behest of his mother, Rebecca, the Torah declares that Rebecca was the mother of both Jacob and Esau (Genesis 28:5). At first blush, this seems to be an ...

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Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.-Sir John Lubbock Modern parents ...

If you read through the stories of Isaac, one thing becomes extremely apparent: he is rarely the main character in his own stories! There is only one, seemingly inconsequential story where the focus ...

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