Deuteronomy 33:1 states “This is the blessing that Moses the man of God pronounced upon the Israelites before his death.” And 1 Kings17:18 states “O man of God,” said the woman to Elijah,“what have ...

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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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 ...

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) ...

Matthew 27:46-49 (RSV) And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, la’ma sabach-tha’ni?” that is, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” [47] And some of the bystanders ...

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 ...

Felix Mendelssohn began plans to write an oratorio on the subject of the Old Testament prophet Elijah in 1837, just after the premiere of his first oratorio, St. Paul. He wrote in 1838, “I imagined ...