When Abraham and Isaac leave home en route to Mt. Moriah, as we read last week in the Torah, they departed from Beersheba, for this is where Abraham and his two accompanying ‘’young men ...

If Abraham believed that Ishmael would survive the desert, he would believe that Isaac would survive Mt. Moriah. Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice Ishmael, his least loved son, left God no ...

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 ...

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 the Old ...

Abraham proceeds to follow God’s orders bringing Isaac to the “region of Moriah” and “a mountain I will show you.” Today in Jerusalem, that mountain is called Mt. Moriah — an important ...

In the earliest Biblical narrative, Yoreh believes, Isaac died that day on Mt. Moriah. Far from setting an example in which God intervenes to end human sacrifice, Abraham, the father of monotheism ...

The story of Abraham and Isaac is one of the most fascinating ... Moving ahead to the critical moment on Mount Moriah, the story is told in such plain, direct language that there is nowhere ...

or are we still plodding up the hill of Mount Moriah in a deathly procession looking for someone or something to throw under the bus? The story of Abraham and Isaac holds up an uncomfortable mirror to ...