Our Parasha relates ( :28:10-18 ), that after Yaakov departed from Beer-Sheva, to escape the wrath of Esav, ‘he encountered the place and spent the night there..And he dreamt, and behold! A ladder was ...

“A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read” (Bavli, Berachot 55a). This week’s Torah reading begins with the dramatic image of Jacob, having just departed for Haran, having ...

This is English artist and poet William Blake’s depiction of Jacob’s Ladder with angels ascending and descending a ladder or staircase between Heaven and Earth for the enlightenment of the Jewish ...

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“You will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man” (John 1:51). Rev 21:9b-14; John 1:45-51 Both readings today are about connecting heaven and earth. The ...

Parashat Vayeitzei, which we read this past Shabbat, begins with the third and last Patriarch of the Jewish nation, Jacob, leaving the Land of Israel: “Jacob went out from Beer Sheva, and he went to ...

In popular art, angels have been reduced to cute babies with wings and halos. In the Bible, they are beings powerful enough to break into the time-space continuum like sonic booms to deliver ...

I have a pretty paralyzing fear of heights. Ask me to walk across New York’s George Washington Bridge and I’m hard pressed to take even three steps forward towards New Jersey. I wouldn’t bungee jump ...

Sep. 9—The story of Jacob's Ladder is told in Genesis 28:10-19 to show that God is interested in every person and that he knows what mental state they are in and what they're doing whether good or bad ...