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 ...

More important, Mount Moriah is the site of the “Foundation Stone,” the rock where Abraham tied his son Isaac in the biblical story of the binding of Isaac. Muslims believe the same stone is ...

His death halted by an “almost” — Isaac suffers an existential crisis. He wanders from the Akeida at Moriah to the desert, a place of certain death. He comes upon the well that was Hagar’s ...

The Shibbolei HaLeket reports this tradition in these words: “When Isaac was bound on the altar and reduced to ashes and his sacrificial dust was cast onto Mount Moriah, the Holy One ...

Indeed, Abraham’s acts resulted in Isaac’s torment ... Abraham to perform this test “into the land of Moriah.,” a made-up name, never used in Tanach before or after (other than an obscure ...

Years back, a Hebrew Christian approached me, arguing that his belief in Jesus had something to do with the binding of Isaac story ... As Avraham walked to Moriah to slaughter his son, the ...

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 ...

Till then, fans of Fortnite and The Binding of Isaac await seeing Isaac Moriah's world clash with the Battle Royale giant. Pranav is a Fortnite writer holding a Bachelor's degree in Journalism and ...