Jacob Dallal, at The Blogs

Oct 15, 2018, 11:40 AM

God tells Abraham his offspring will be as numerous as the stars in the sky – yet Abraham is childless. God puts Abraham in a tough spot: believe Me or believe reality. (Woodcut by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld from the 1860 Bible in Pictures)

This Bible portion begins with a bang. God says to Abram (he gets a name change only later on): Go "to the land I will show you and I will turn you into a great nation… and all the families...

Oct 8, 2018, 10:26 PM

God Learns to Cope with Failure

The flood over and man and animal back on dry land, God reconciles Himself with the reality that parts of human nature are beyond His ability to control or repair. ("Landscape with Sacrifice of Noah" by Josef Anton Koch, 1803.)

We are very familiar with the two renditions of the story of creation: the rendition of first chapter of Genesis, where God creates the world in seven days; and rendition of the second chapter, featuring the story of the...

Oct 3, 2018, 8:03 AM

In the Beginning… God Is Lonely

The Bible opens with two stories of creation. The first one, described in the first chapter of Genesis, is of a majestic, energetic, productive God (referred to as "Elohim" throughout the chapter) who creates the universe soup-to-nuts in six...

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Jacob Dallal, who lives not far from where Jonah set sail in Jaffa to escape God, is writing on the Bible portion, focusing its characters, especially on the character of God.

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