Suskin: It is a rare occurrence for Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) and Eid al-Adha (the Feast ... Isaac) and Hagar (the mother of Ishmael). Some sages try to explain Sarah’s demand that ...

Q: Attending Catholic school as a child, I remember being bothered by the story of Abraham being ... Whatever Sarah tells you, listen to her voice. For through Isaac shall your seed be named ...

While in Khayei Sarah, we only read that Isaac and Ishmael bury ... the feast of weeks–that is, the feast of the first-fruits of the harvest–to Abraham, their father, and Abraham rejoiced ...

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 ...

There are versions in which Isaac’s mother, Sarah, stops the sacrifice, and versions in which Isaac runs away. Bob Dylan’s Abraham thinks God is putting him on. He isn’t, but Woody Allen’s ...

Today is the feast of the Holy Family of ... is the fulfillment that comes through Sarah with the birth of Isaac. The omitted parts include Abraham and Hagar’s relationship, which produces ...

Last we heard, Abraham was living in Beer Sheba. The question thus arises whether he and Sarah were, for whatever reason, separated. Indeed, when asked by G-d to sacrifice Isaac, Abraham does not ...

And of course they do, and Isaac is born. Now comes the question that the Torah throughout its literature asks us, and indeed trusts us to answer. Abraham and Sarah are two people who wander from Ur ...

Suskin: It is a rare occurrence for Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) and Eid al-Adha (the Feast of the Sacrifice ... Sarah (the mother of Isaac) and Hagar (the mother of Ishmael). Some sages try to ...