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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

God commanded Abraham to sacrifice his son. And not just any son, but Isaac, the longed-for son of Abraham and Sarah’s old age, the son God promised would make their descendants as numerous as ...

This is not a political issue. It is an ethical concern of the highest value. Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, Jacob and Leah, looking upon their holy resting place from above, must be shaking.

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 ...

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 ...