When it comes to the people we read about in the Bible, we all have favorites. In the Brit Chadasha (New Testament), my favorite is Peter because while he was mightily used by G-D, he was also a person that
Stop Over-Giving Creatively and Start using Your Gifts for God
Growing up a “gifted” child is no picnic. On the contrary, being favored of the Lord is like wearing a giant bull’s eye, something Jewish people have lived with for centuries, and the number one way to get rejected by other
How to Grow in Wisdom the Easier Way
This week’s Torah portion contains a couple of well-known Bible Stories. But the one I’d like to look at today is Joseph and the dreams of his youth in Genesis 37. Besides being the favored son, having been Rachel’s firstborn,
Learning the Gospels through Oral Storytelling
The Gospels were told by storytellers. If you know anything about the traditions of Judaism, you’ll know that oral storytelling has a large part to play in the written Word we have today. Moses was a storyteller. He wrote the
What did Jacob’s Ladder look like?
I have always been fascinated with the story of Jacob’s magnificent dream of the “ladder” connecting heaven with earth. Honestly, I have read that story more than a dozen times and feasted on it all week long each year. The thought of
