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 ...

There are versions in which Isaac’s mother, Sarah, stops the sacrifice, and versions in which Isaac runs away. Bob Dylan’s Abraham thinks God is putting him on. He isn’t, but Woody Allen’s ...

Q: Attending Catholic school as a child, I remember being bothered by the story of Abraham being ... Whatever Sarah tells you, listen to her voice. For through Isaac shall your seed be named ...

Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist and composer; Isaac Asimov, Russian-born American writer and biochemist; Isaac Barrow, English ...

And of course they do, and Isaac is born. Now comes the question that the Torah throughout its literature asks us, and indeed trusts us to answer. Abraham and Sarah are two people who wander from Ur ...

This is not a political issue. It is an ethical concern of the highest value. Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, Jacob and Leah, looking upon their holy resting place from above, must be shaking.

While traveling to the place of the sacrifice, alongside Isaac and two servants, Abraham is flooded with vivid memories from the years he and Sarah spent longing for the son they were promised ...

Isaac was not the weakest link. Abraham the founder had many potential successors. There was his first-born son Ishmael, by Sarah’s maidservant Hagar. After Sara’s death Abraham fathered six ...

In case of abuse, In a scant 19 lines, Genesis Chapter 22 tells us that God instructed Abraham ... And Sarah took the wood for the offering and loaded it onto Isaac, her son.

The other evidence is that this story happened in Makkah and it is known that Isaac (PPBUH) and his mother Sarah never came to Makkah. But Abraham (PPBUH) and his wife Hajar (Ismael's mother ) were ...