The Qur’an contains 99 Arabic names (attributes or character traits) for the multifaceted essence of the one God, but not one of them connects the one God with one people, while one of the dozens of ...

Life had weathered him. In 1948, on the heels of WWII, Winston Churchill famously said, “Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” The Bible contains many such men who didn’t ...

As he sleeps, he dreams of a ladder that stretches from the earth to the heavens — with angels of God ascending and descending on the ladder. Questions: What was the meaning of Jacob’s dream?

You know, ‘Our Father, who art in heaven, Howard be Thy name.’” The Jewish boy laughed and said, “That’s cute, but my rabbi taught us that God has many names, and trust me, ‘Howard’ doesn’t make the ...

Jacob then gives them blessings that are included in the blessings many traditional Jews pronounce to their children to this day on Friday nights (“May God make you like Ephraim and Menashe.

Jacob then proceeds to bless each of his sons ... 28) so that their outwardly blessed position would prove to be a blessing to them. For God cannot make a person happy against his will and ...