Angels

What are angels? How do they come into existence? What do they do for us?

The angel tries to disentangle himself from Jacob but cannot do so. He is forced to beg Jacob to let him go.

The disciples of Rabbi DovBer of Mezeritch gathered around his bed to hear their teacher speak about Jacob's angels. It was the last Shabbat of the chassidic master's life...

They say that “you can’t dance at two weddings at once.” But according to a teaching of the Maggid of Mezeritch, the leading disciple of the saintly Baal Shem Tov, you can. The Torah reading of Vayishlach begins, “And Jacob sent angels before him to Esau ...

A person invites guests for dinner. He introduces the guests to his family, sits down at the table—and then not three minutes later, before the first morsel of food is served, the guests are shown the door...

The struggle between Jacob and the "angel of Esau", which "raised dust up to the Supernal Throne", is the cosmic struggle between the spirituality of Israel and the materiality of Edom (Rome). The struggle is conducted on two planes -- "with the divine an...