“Lech lecha me’artzecha… Go forth from your land, from your birthplace, and from your father’s house, to the land that I will show you” (Bereishit/Genesis 12:1). With these words, God calls Abram into ...

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And the Lord said to Abram, “Go forth from your land and from your birthplace and from your father’s house, to the land that I will show you.” I love imagining and reading our biblical characters as ...

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The day God pronounced two simple words — lech lecha — Abraham and Sarah’s lives changed forever. God instructs Abraham to leave his homeland, his birthplace and his father’s home, “to the land that I ...

This two-way journey of the soul – going out and then returning transformed – is the pathway to personal and national renewal. See more on ...

In his prolific essays and letters, Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak HaKohen Kook repeatedly stresses that in our time of the ingathering of our exiles and the rebuilding of the Israelite Nation in the Land of ...

Ruth’s “I will go” is a declaration of loyalty stronger than blood. She leaves behind her homeland, her gods, and her past to ...