In contrast to Reuven, we have little information about Gad beyond their request to live on the East bank of the Jordan, and thus will have to work harder at looking for clues regarding their ...

This is not a journalistic report in the traditional sense and it involves equal measures of history and religion with a heavy dose of wishful thinking. But those of us who delve occasionally into ...

Over 2,700 years ago, the Assyrians exiled the ten tribes of the Kingdom of Israel. The ten tribes would have returned at once to the Holy Land had not the Lord encircled them with the legendary river ...

The Torah relates (32:1-32):’The descendants of Reuben and of Gad had an abundance of livestock..They saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead.. the place was a place for livestock. ‘The ...

“The children of Reuben and the children of Gad possessed much cattle, and they saw the land of Ya’zer and the land of Gilead, and behold, it was a land for pasture…. And they said [to Moshe]: ‘If we ...