I retired from my secular career a year ago this month, and last fall — with all the other kids — I went back to school. In ...

If Abraham believed that Ishmael would survive the desert, he would believe that Isaac would survive Mt. Moriah. Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice Ishmael, his least loved son, left God no ...

Jewish tradition tells us that sacrificing Isaac was Abraham’s final test of faith ... He wanders from the Akeida at Moriah to the desert, a place of certain death. He comes upon the well ...

Abraham proceeds to follow God’s orders bringing Isaac to the “region of Moriah” and “a mountain I will show you.” Today in Jerusalem, that mountain is called Mt. Moriah — an important ...

This is what happens in Genesis 22. God tells Abraham: “Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of ...

He’s important because he prefigures Christ. 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 ...

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 ...

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The story of Abraham and Isaac is one of the most fascinating ... Moving ahead to the critical moment on Mount Moriah, the story is told in such plain, direct language that there is nowhere ...

He (God) said (to Abraham), “Take your son, your only son, the one you love, Isaac, and walk yourself to the land of Moriah and offer him up as a whole burnt offering…” Gen. 22 Had Tolstoy or James or ...