The Akedah- The Meaning of the “binding” of Isaac ... acknowledgment that human sacrifice is forbidden. And so, ultimately Abraham passes his test. In this place, –where G-d is his ...

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 ...

From the back seat my kindergartener called, “Mom, why did God want Abraham to sacrifice Isaac ... with trust, to a place beyond human comprehension, beyond a recognizable moral order ...

Muslims from all walks of life are set to celebrate Eid-ul-Adha 'Feast of the Sacrifice'.From the wee hours of the morning, Muslims will be seen heading to mosques for prayers and ...

While traveling to the place of the sacrifice, alongside Isaac and two servants, Abraham is flooded with vivid memories from the years he and Sarah spent longing for the son they were promised ...

The perfect test and indeed the only test was to ask Abraham to sacrifice Isaac while at the same time believing that God would not actually require him to go through with the sacrifice.

God could never have expected Abraham to kill Isaac. Others infer that God never asked Abraham to sacrifice his son literally, because God only considers kosher animals fit for offerings ...

Most of "His Only Son" takes place immediately after God commands Abraham (played with finesse by the Lebanese actor Nicolas Mouawad) to sacrifice Isaac (played by up-and-coming Israeli American ...

The sacrificed son was Ismael. The evidence for that is first, that Allah, the Almighty promised Abraham (PPBUH) and his wife that he could give them a son whose name was Isaac and that, that son ...