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Elijah fed by the ravens, by Giovanni Lanfranco. (Credit: Wikicommons.) Listen The witness of the prophet Elijah echoes through the ages. The holy man’s life was filled with intense prayer and ...

The parable of Yitz teaches us a very powerful lesson. Heaven and Hell are created by how we behave and react to the ...

Every Passover, Jews set an extra cup of wine on the dinner table and open the door for the enigmatic prophet Elijah, hoping he will enter. An evolving symbol of hope and redemption in Judaism over ...

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Are you… Physically down? Emotionally exhausted? Spiritually floundering? Socially isolated? Who isn’t these days? I’ve been there many times. So was the Bible ...

If ever there was an Old Testament character we could all relate to during these troubled times, it would be Elijah, without a doubt. Many of us remember him as one of the most famous Biblical ...

A good-hearted friend invited me to a small party. It was the first time he had done something like that, and I originally agreed to attend. But it turned out to be on yet another long day at work. It ...