Sarah laughed. My mother laughed. And I laugh, too Nov 6, 2020, 6:55 PM Edit. ... This is where the roots of Abraham/Ibrahim divide, where brother is pitted against brother, ...

There are so many topics offered in this week’s Torah portion, “Veyera”, and all in a painful way touch on our current reality. We could, for example, learn again the Akeida, the “Binding ...

My explanation suggests that God was angry with Abraham when Sarah laughed, providing a new gloss on Rashi’s explanation of Gen. 17:17.

Sarah perhaps had less faith than Abraham because, hearing this at the entrance of her tent, she “laughed,” which elicits the visitor’s response that nothing is impossible for God.

Abraham laughs, and challenges God, asking how it could be possible for Sarah to give birth at the age of 90. And yet, according to the commentaries, God finds Abraham’s laughter joyful, while ...

Abraham and Sarah traveled and eventually arrived in Gerar, a Philistine city. Upon the king’s attraction to Sarah more lies came: Abraham: “she is my sister.” Sarah: “he’s my brother ...

In verse 13, Sarah laughs at the idea of being a mother. She says “with my husband so old,” implying that Abraham is too old for sex. But when God reports this to Abraham, he doesn’t say that.

When the man from Crete told this to Pharaoh; he laughed. ... Almost 2,000 years later, people were still talking about the souls that Abraham and Sarah made in Ur, Haran, ...