In between the first Jewish couple of Abraham and Sarah and the couples that their grandson Jacob set with Leah and Rachel, the couple of Isaac and Rebecca might be slightly off the attention ...

After all, Isaac was not really the “only son” of Abraham – the patriarch himself had responded to God’s guarantee that he would sire an heir with Sarah with the almost dismissive ...

There is discussion, however, of the less-than-warm relationship between Sarah (the mother of Isaac) and Hagar (the mother of Ishmael). Some sages try to explain Sarah’s demand that Abraham ...

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 ...

Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you ... And these two sons of Abraham, Prophets Ishmael and Isaac, are the only two Prophets who each had a physical descendant that, many ...

Abraham leading Isaac to sacrifice. Painting by Domenico Zampieri/Kimbell Art Museum The following is excerpted from Unscrolled: 54 Artists and Writers Wrestle With the Torah, edited by Roger ...

the son’s reaction (all Isaac gets to say is the title question), mother Sarah’s complete absence, even what really happened (some ancient rabbis thought Abraham did kill Isaac, only to have ...