In the story, God puts Abraham to the test, asking him to “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of ...

The first step in God’s mercy in the case of Sodom was Abraham’s intercession. The prayer of one man was enough for God to be ...

We stand today, like Abraham, atop the mountain, facing the delicate challenge of reconciling morality and prophecy.

Story of Abraham and Isaac teaches, "what it means to fear God And it means this: To fear God is to do whatever He asks of us, when He asks.".

“Long before we came to Mount Sinai,” said Rabino Shalem, “God spoke to Abraham – not me, but our patriarch.” He winked and smiled with such charm.

HE HAS A RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD, GOD SPEAKS TO HIM, TRY TO EXCITE THE MASSES ABOUT MONOTHEISM -- SORT OF THE FIRST RABBI, OR MEGACHURCH PREACHER -- THAT WAS ABRAHAM.

Abraham reached a higher level of religious self conscious. Abraham realized that everything comes from God; both what we think is good and what we think is bad.

Through sacrifice and unwavering faith, Abraham’s covenant with God prefigures the greater fulfillment in Christ, as depicted in sacred art through the ages.