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The only fully developed marriage in the Torah is the marriage of Abraham and Sarah. Abraham and Sarah are two people ... Yet the two of them have missed one basic idea. In order for the belief in the ...
This Zionism has been in our genetic makeup from the very first. The story of Abraham and Sarah as a couple only occupies two of the 54 parshiyot (portions): an extremely small part of the Torah.
What makes the story of Avraham (Abraham) and Sarah going to Egypt important enough to be included in the Genesis narrative? (Genesis 12:10-20) Ramban suggests that this is an example of the maxim ...
In a famous anecdote, Nechama Leibowitz asked a class of rabbinical students to open a Tanach and find the story ... Abraham’s character as we come to know it from Lech Lecha through Hayei Sarah ...
Here is the story of two of Sarai’s converts ... people were still talking about the souls that Abraham and Sarah made in Ur, Haran, Egypt and the Land of Canaan. Rabbi Eliezer taught that ...
and what had just happened in the Genesis story. What happened is told in Genesis 16:1-16 and Genesis 21:1-21. Sarai, (she was not yet called Sarah) was the childless wife of Abraham who had given ...
Or he may simply have sensed that if God or Abraham had confided in Sarah, the story would have ended right then and there: How do you say “over my dead body” in biblical Hebrew? In subsequent ...