מכרה mekêrāh — “weapon;” related: כיר kārar or כרה kārāh dig. “Device, design?” related: …

Cursed ... — Jacob condemns Simeon and Levi not because they were angry, but because they vented their anger in a treacherous and …

Because you went up to your father's bed; then you defiled it: he went up to my couch. Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are…

Cursed be their anger. What I have said must be kept in mind; namely, that we are divinely admonished by the mouth of the holy prophet to …

Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce It was sinful anger in the nature of it, and so criminal and detestable; it was …

Reuben was the firstborn; but by gross sin, he forfeited the birthright. The character of Reuben is that he was unstable as water. Men do not thriv…