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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Suskin: It is a rare occurrence for Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) and Eid al-Adha (the Feast of the Sacrifice ... Sarah (the mother of Isaac) and Hagar (the mother of Ishmael). Some sages try to ...

"That explains why ultimately Isaac, the son of Sarah, was chosen as Abraham's heir rather than ... or hajj—including a sacrificial feast—are symbolically tied to the story of Hagar and ...

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 ...

Just as Abraham signs a pact with the king Avimelech, so does Isaac. And just as Abraham passes off his wife, Sarah, as his sister to avoid being killed by Avimelech, so does Isaac with his own ...

Nearly 1.6 billion Muslims around the world celebrate Eid al-Adha (the Feast of ... rewarded Abraham with another son, Isaac, and Jacob, a grandson, through his barren wife Sarah.

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 ...