In the story, God puts Abraham to the test, asking him to “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of ...

Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took his two young men with him and his son Isaac. He split the wood for the offering, got up, and went to the place which God had told him.

Isaac’s almost-sacrifice on the hill of Moriah prefigures Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross. What is prefigured in Isaac happens in Jesus. If you reject Abraham’s obedience, you question whether ...

Abraham’s near sacrifice of Isaac on Mount Moriah prefigures the Father’s sacrifice of his Son, Jesus, on Mount Calvary. What Isaac foretold is realized in full in Christ. Isaac is the bridge ...

"His Only Son" recounts one of the most controversial moments in the Old Testament—when Abraham was commanded by God to sacrifice his son Isaac on the mountain of Moriah. While traveling to the ...

When Abraham and Isaac leave home en route to Mt. Moriah, as we read last week in the Torah, they departed from Beersheba, for this is where Abraham and his two accompanying ‘’young men ...

Abraham and Isaac before the Sacrifice, Jan Victors, 1642. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. ... Moving ahead to the critical moment on Mount Moriah, the story is told in such plain, ...

And yet, Abraham has been promised that ”through Isaac shall your seed be called.”(Genesis 21:12) He has been promised “And I shall make you into a great nation, and I shall bless you and ...

After the creation of the State of Israel, to be an Israeli parent, one must be more heroic and steadfast in their life work, more so than Abraham – or any previous generation in Jewish history.