The brothers want to kill Yosef. Reuven must think quickly, wisely and courageously.

Dinah is violated, and Shimon and Levi do something about it – they wipe out the male Shechemites. In principle, it seems that Yaakov agrees – only he is worried about the consequences.

It is perhaps the greatest act of selflessness in Biblical lore. As Rachel stands ready to marry Yaakov, something they have been pining for seven long years, Lavan has a different plan.

Makom, with regard to the patriarchs, means a place for prayer: “And he lighted upon a certain place, va’yifga ba-makom, and remained there all night” (Gen. 28:11).

Here's a strange question. Did Yitzchak love Yaakov? Read this pasuk carefully and you’ll understand my problem. "Yitzchak loved Eisav because he placed game in his mouth and Rivkah loves Yaakov."

In our shul (and I suspect in many others) the Artscroll siddur gray box is well known to many. I have often thought that much of the living breathing Torah operates in the gray box...

Sarah’s biblical epitaph enumerates the years of her life in an unusual fashion, with the word “years” repeated three times: “one hundred years and twenty years and seven years” (Genesis 23:1).

When the three travelers, angels in disguise, came to visit Abraham, the ailing patriarch chose to disrupt a conversation with God in order to greet them (Gen. 18:1-2).