The Torah’s presentation of the lineage of Shem, son of Noach (Noah), seems mysterious. After recording the lineage of Shem’s brothers, Yefet and Cham (Bereshit/Genesis 10:1-20), the Torah records the ...

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When did the Tower of Bavel occur relative to Noach and Avraham? The colloquial assumption is that the story of Migdal Bavel (Tower of Bavel) (Bereshit 11:1-9) occurred early in the life of Avraham ...

What is the difference between a good builder and a poor builder? In this week’s parsha of Noach, the Torah reveals to us details of a catastrophic building project. It was the attempt to construct ...

What starts off as an homage to Scheherazade and her 1001 nights of storytelling quickly turns takes on a life (and story) of its own in Isabel Greenberg's The One Hundred Nights of Hero. For her ...