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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

"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 ...

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.

On Yom Kippur we fast; on Sukkot we feast. On Yom Kippur we think of ... as well as symbolic guests from our biblical past – Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob and Leah, Moses and ...

Sarah, and the procurement by Abraham’s trusted servant of a suitable wife for his son, Isaac. Let us focus on the first: why does the Torah describe in such elaborate length and detail Abraham ...

In Judaism, the practice of pilgrimage goes back to the feast described in Deuteronomy ... narration that was first performed by Prophet Abraham, Sarah, Hager and Ishmael. Hajj is supposed to ...