“And Jacob was left alone: and a man (ish) wrestled with him until the breaking of the day” (Gen. 32:25). In the words of Nehama Leibowitz, this is a “mystery-shrouded narrative”. Who, or what, was this ish? He is not called an...
The Masorti Annual Dinner, takes place on Thursday 11 January at Allianz Park. It’s the one occasion in the year that all our communities, big or small, from near or far, come together under one roof, for the same common cause. The dinn...
“And Jacob went out from Beersheba and went towards Haran” (Gen. 28:10). The rabbis asked, why does the text state that Jacob left Beersheba when we already know this fact from the previous parashah? The reason, they said, was that...
