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 my case, I took two semesters of Biblical Hebrew, the language of ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...