24:3). Patriarch Abraham is the father of the chosen people. He occupies a special place in the Divine Economy of our salvation. His calling was not only the first stage in the fulfillment of the ...

Go forth from your native land and from your father’s house to the land ... and to name their descendants as his chosen people. Abraham agreed that he and his descendants would obey and worship ...

very much, and I will make you into nations.... This is when God changed Abram’s name to Abraham meaning ‘father of many nations’.

Jews believe that because of the covenant God made with Abraham they, as his descendants, are God’s chosen people ... is referred to as a Patriarch (father). Jews will seek to follow his ...