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 ...

This Zionism has been in our genetic makeup from the very first. The story of Abraham and Sarah as a couple only occupies two of the 54 parshiyot (portions): an extremely small part of the Torah.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

For me, the modern reader, it is exquisitely painful to see how children are pawns in the story. Abraham took ... staying in the wilderness. CAN ABRAHAM, SARAH, AND HAGAR DO TESHUVAH?