In this discourse on the meaning of the word “toldot,” our default is applying it in anthropocentric terms. But is that correct? This week’s parasha, Toldot, opens, “Ve’ele toldot Yitzhak ben Avraham” ...

Jewish tradition teaches that the Torah has shiv’im panim – seventy faces. It is not a book of simple answers or one-dimensional truths. That is its beauty: always fresh, always authentic, inviting us ...

A missing letter provides a clue to the survival of the Jewish people. In Parshat Toldot, we read how Jacob deceived his father Isaac into thinking that he was his twin brother Esau. Isaac declared ...

When famine strikes Israel yet again, Isaac is forced to flee to the land of the Philistines to find refuge, just like his father did previously: And Isaac dug anew the wells (be’erot) of water which ...