Archive: November 2010

“This is None Other than the House of God” – Building a House that Endures

by Rabbi Dov Linzer
Posted on November 12, 2010

Yaakov runs away from his brother, falls asleep, has a vision of angels ascending and descending a ladder, and God appears to him and promises to watch over him.  He then wakes up and declares: “This is none other than the house of the Lord and this is the gate of heaven,” on which the Rabbis comment, “Not like Avraham that called [God’s place] a mountain, nor like Yitzchak that called it a field, but like Yaakov that called it a house”  (Pesachim 88a). …