Posts Tagged: Cain and Abel
The Similar Stories of Eve and Cain
We have started the annual cycle of reading the Torah. Every year, I come to a familiar, beloved text, and invariably see something new. The Bible...
The True Mystery of Judaism Is God’s Faith in Us
There is a deep question at the heart of Jewish faith, and it is very rarely asked. As the Torah opens, we see God creating...
UNESCO, Israel, Cain and Abel
Kol hapossel bemumo possel is an old rabbinic refrain. Roughly translated, it means that those who criticize others are usually criticizing faults they possess themselves. Modern psychology has a word for...
The Greatness of Remembrance
The drama of younger and older brothers, which haunts the book of Bereishit (genesis) from Cain and Abel onwards, reaches a strange climax in the...
Deception and Desire: An Overview of Genesis
Based on a series of lectures by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach At the core of the book of Genesis the themes of desire and deception consistently reappear...
