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 ...

The patriarchs in the Bible were the fathers of the nation of Israel: Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Through these three men, the ...

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 ...

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.