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 ...

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.