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 ...

God asked Abraham to sacrifice his only son, Isaac, up to Him. Once God saw that Abraham was willing to do what He asked, God stopped Abraham from killing Isaac. It was only when I became an adult ...

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We are forced to face the horror. Abraham built the altar. Next he tied Isaac, and put him on the wood. Then he reached for the knife to slaughter his son. When a story perplexes the most ...

Only two sons of Abraham, traveling, idol-smashing Hebrew, became famed— Ishmael and Isaac. Isaac, son of Sarah, Abraham’s half-sister by another mother, was the younger. He became the ...

In parashat Toldot, we read about the struggles of our patriarch Isaac, son of Abraham and father of Jacob, with the envy of his neighbors in the land of Canaan. The story begins with a drought ...

He’s important because he prefigures Christ. Abraham’s near sacrifice of Isaac on Mount Moriah prefigures the Father’s sacrifice of his Son, Jesus, on Mount Calvary. What Isaac foretold is ...