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 ...

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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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But why is it that, over the centuries, it is the prophet Elijah, rather than the Messiah himself, who became the subject of the Seder-night welcome? (Godong / Universal Images Group via Getty Images) ...

For more than two decades in the 9th century BCE, the Kingdom of Israel was ruled by King Ahab and his Phoenician wife Jezebel. According to the Scriptures, the couple encouraged their subjects to ...

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Jerusalem-based Rabbi Dr. Eliezer Shore has a personal fascination with stories of open miracles. In Meeting Elijah: True Tales of Eliyahu HaNavi, he shares 57 stories that he collected over a period ...

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 ...