When I sent my son to serve this country, I entered into a kind of covenant. Not a formal agreement, but a sacred one. A ...

In the story, God puts Abraham to the test, asking him to “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one ...

And these two sons of Abraham, Prophet Ishmael and Prophet Isaac, are the only two Prophets ... and made an enduring covenant with them at Mount Sinai. Prophet Abraham-the-Hebrew was not born ...

He then hears God — “the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac ... but it points to something far deeper. Just as Isaac on the sacrificial altar on Mount Moriah prefigures the future Christ ...

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 ...

The Yale Jewish Lives series, which has volumes devoted to figures as diverse as Harry Houdini and Henrietta Szold, had a conspicuous gap in its library: an account of the first Jewish life.

As the sun begins to set, Jacob halts his journey and spends the night at Mount Moriah – the site where his grandfather Abraham bound Jacob’s father, Isaac. This is destined to become the ...

THE MIDRASH portrays Abraham’s emotional state during the Akeidah (The Binding of Isaac) as a profound paradox ... challenge faced by Abraham at Mount Moriah – the ability to hold contrasting ...