Avshalom Kapach

The description of the biblical conquest of land is reminiscent of modern Israel, here are a few examples.

Israeli society’s trust in its judicial system has been declining for years

For more than 2,000 years, the Fertile Crescent was the center of world culture, innovation and trade. Until the Muslims came…

Just as Tammuz conveys the problematic aspects of summer, the same can be said of Reuben and his fate

The month of Shvat in the Jewish calendar is the fifth month in relation to the creation of the world, and the 11th in relation to the Exodus of Israel from Egypt.

Tevet is the fourth month in the Jewish civil calendar, but the 10th month according to the religious calendar, if one begins counting from the month of Nisan, when the people of Israel came out of Egypt.

“All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them when he blessed them. He blessed them, every one with the blessing appropriate to him.” (Genesis 49:28)

In Genesis, God addresses man and explains his role in creation: “And God blessed them. And God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.

The theme of a woman at the window appears a number of times in the Bible.

The prophet Zechariah served God during the return to Zion, and was a contemporary of Haggai.