Years ago, when I was telling my young children the story of the Akeda, “the sacrifice of Isaac” from this week’s Torah portion, my daughter, Batya, tearfully interrupted my tale saying, “Stop lying ...

Haviv Rettig Gur is The Times of Israel's senior analyst. NEW YORK — When he first came to believe he had discovered how the Biblical forefather Isaac died, Bible scholar Tzemah Yoreh says he went ...

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 ...

With “trust” in the subtitle, remember that Abraham totally trusts God after a recent covenant between them when God declared: “I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and ...

Although never mentioned again in the Hebrew Bible, the baffling story of Issac’s near-sacrifice, the akedah (Genesis 22), has had a major role in the Jewish imagination of the last two millennia. It ...

Continuing this eight-part series on men in the Bible, the fourth in the series is Isaac. As a practicing, committed Catholic for over fifteen years, I have learned a lot about Abraham and about Jacob ...

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Continuing this eight-part series on men in the Bible, the fourth in the series is Isaac. As a practicing, committed Catholic for over fifteen years, I have learned a lot about Abraham and about Jacob ...