Father's Day is more than a celebration — it's a reminder. A reminder that fatherhood is a calling, not just a role. A father ...

Isaac is old, blind, and house-and-bed-bound. He tastes his mortality and intends to convey his blessing to his firstborn son. (In truth, Isaac would live many more decades and meet Jacob after ...

we must look at these two blessings together. Taken together, Isaac was weaving a fascinating interdependence between his two sons which was targeted at assuring that the mission of living a godly ...

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 ...

(Genesis 9:25-27). Similarly, when Isaac, our father, was about to bless his eldest son Esau, his mother Rebecca feared that the blessing would be given to one who was not worthy of it, and she ...

Author Mark Gerson, whose new book is "God Was Right," reveals how the Torah teaches a profound lesson highly relevant to ...

As many of us know, Jacob—with the help of his mother, Rebekah—deceives his father, Isaac ... one blessing, Father? Bless me, too, Father!’ And Esau wept aloud…” All children—sons ...