“Blessed are the peacemakers”

Why Didn’t Joseph Ever Pick Up the “Phone” to Comfort His Father? At the height of his power, he could have immediately ended Jacob’s suffering.

Joseph’s story continues and confronts him with two more dreams—this time not his own, but those of two other people: the chief baker and the chief cupbearer of Pharaoh.

From dreamer to servant, from pride to humility.

About a small spark that refuses to surrender to the darkness.

What happens in the hidden realms when the grand stage of history is filled with guilt, betrayal, and pain? Where does God work when the obvious fails and the main actors fall silent?

How Gideon became a hero and continues to influence the Israeli army to this day.

Have you ever felt that you are standing inwardly at a turning point? That life is pressing you, urging you no longer to continue as before? That you realise the person you were no longer fits the person you have become? It is exactly there that the story of Jacob begins — and exactly there that it begins with us too. This is the weekly Torah portion that we in the people of Israel read on this Shabbat. Come and read with us!

“We’ll meet at eight at Talitha Kumi.” That’s how I used to arrange to meet friends as a teenager. Since we came from different neighborhoods, it was the best meeting point in Jerusalem—and it still is one of the most popular spots in the city to this day.

Have you ever felt that a path you were forced to take against your will ultimately turned out to be the very one that brought you back to yourself?