Gen. 22: 9.--And they came to the place which God had told them of: and Abraham built an altar there and laid the wood in order; and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar on the wood.

This Rosh Hashanah, on the first day’s Haftorah reading we heard the retelling of the story of Hannah, Elkanah and their child, Samuel. On the second day, during the Torah portion, we heard the ...

The title of this piece points to the central event under discussion: Abraham’s attempted sacrifice of Isaac on Mount Moriah. But, given our discussion of last week and the week before, it might also ...

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 ...

“I will bless you abundantly and make your descendants as countless as the stars of the sky and the sands of the seashore.” The story of Abraham and Isaac is one of the most fascinating, and troubling ...

in Genesis 22:1–19, God tests Abraham’s faith by commanding him to sacrifice his only son, Isaac. Abraham, who had waited decades for the birth of Isaac, the son promised by God to carry on his ...

They went up together and they did not come down the same. וְנִסְמְכָה מִיתַת שָׂרָה לַעֲקֵדַת יִצְחָק לְפִי שֶׁעַל יְדֵי בְּשׂוֹרַת הָעֲקֵדָה שֶׁנִּזְדַּמֵּן ...

Phillip Medhurst under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. In the collection of Revd. Philip De Vere at St. George’s Court, Kidderminster, England. I wonder if a major ...

The Second Sunday of Lent continues to highlight motifs present in last Sunday’s readings. Although there are some similarities, the theological lens from today’s readings presents a distinct vantage ...

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