and what had just happened in the Genesis story. What happened is told in Genesis 16:1-16 and Genesis 21:1-21. Sarai, (she was not yet called Sarah) was the childless wife of Abraham who had given ...

What makes the story of Avraham (Abraham) and Sarah going to Egypt important enough to be included in the Genesis narrative? (Genesis 12:10-20) Ramban suggests that this is an example of the maxim ...

The only fully developed marriage in the Torah is the marriage of Abraham and Sarah. Abraham and Sarah are two people ... Yet the two of them have missed one basic idea. In order for the belief in the ...

The story in Genesis of Abraham’s willingness to kill his son Isaac at God’s command still gets a lot of attention. But it doesn’t get a lot of love. In every broadside against religion, God ...

In a famous anecdote, Nechama Leibowitz asked a class of rabbinical students to open a Tanach and find the story ... Abraham’s character as we come to know it from Lech Lecha through Hayei Sarah ...

(RNS) The shared story of the ... relationship between Sarah (the mother of Isaac) and Hagar (the mother of Ishmael). Some sages try to explain Sarah’s demand that Abraham expel Hagar and ...

One major personality of the first Hebrew family, the matriarch Sarah ... Abraham would not have been living in Beersheba while Sarah was living in Hebron.” But then how do we explain the story ...

Here is the story of two of Sarai’s converts ... people were still talking about the souls that Abraham and Sarah made in Ur, Haran, Egypt and the Land of Canaan. Rabbi Eliezer taught that ...

Or he may simply have sensed that if God or Abraham had confided in Sarah, the story would have ended right then and there: How do you say “over my dead body” in biblical Hebrew? In subsequent ...

Why Scholars Just Can't Stop Talking About Sarah and Hagar Surrogate motherhood. The Arab-Israeli conflict. The oppression of the underclass. Sounds like a roundup of headlines from the nightly ...

It is noted that immediately following this episode, Sarah, Abraham’s wife ... was sacrificed in Isaac’s stead is also part of this story and the complex relationship between a human and ...

Imam Haytham Younis and Rabbi Alana Suskin met for coffee and then exchanged the following e-mail dialogue about the two holidays’ convergence and the meaning of a shared story that ... sages try to ...