After peaceful old Abraham returned to the land of Canaan, he suddenly found himself having to take up the mantle of a warrior leader. What happened was that several city-state rulers descended from an area east of Canaan and decided to wage war against five Canaanite kings in the region where Abraham was living. Now […]

Compared to the Fertile Crescent from where Abraham hailed, life was rough in the land of Canaan. Why? Because being able to survive was directly connected to the soil. This means everything depended on the rainfall which sometimes came and sometimes didn’t. Minus the rain, there could be no crops or land that could be […]

We are continuing our high level review of the Torah currently focusing on the character of Abraham. Per God’s command, when Abraham left his hometown to head towards Canaan the first place he stopped at was a place called Shechem. Today, Shechem is one of the cities of dispute located in the West Bank of […]

It’s important to not forget that the blessings and curses Noah pronounced upon his three sons Shem, Japheth and Ham were all prophetic in nature. Many years after the incident of Noah getting drunk and being humiliated by his son Ham, Ham’s son Canaan departed from the home of his father and settled in that […]

Alrighty, I ended yesterday’s post by mentioning that the land of Canaan was not to be considered a country or a nation. Instead, it’s a huge region that actually contains multiple states and nations clustered together inside it. Now in a similar fashion, although we refer to the inhabitants of Canaan as Canaanites, that’s also […]