As Jacob, one of the three Old Testament patriarchs, flees from his brother Esau, he stops for the night at Bethel, where he dreams of a ladder going from earth to heaven with the angels of God ...

The Zohar says that Jacob’s ladder is a metaphor for the experience of prayer. Our job is to climb the ladder of prayer rung by rung until we reach where “the Lord was standing over him.” “And he ...

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 ...

And he [Jacob] dreamed, and behold! a ladder set up on the ground and its top reached to heaven; and behold, angels of God were ascending and descending upon it. (Gen. 28:12) Rabbi Shneur Zalman of ...

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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 ...