In his book Lessons in Leadership, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks – a briliant rabbinic leader – comments that “Abraham is without a ...
Before the Bible tells us God commanded Abraham to go to a distant, unfamiliar land, which would be where there’s now a ...
Complete miracle.” Lot’s wife looked back. She was scathed. She turned into a pillar of salt. What is the meaning of this? Is this image so distant in time and place and culture from our own that it ...
The holy Patriarch Abraham, born a pagan, ten generations after Noah, when the knowledge of God had perished from among men, became the beginning of God's dispensation for the universal renewal and ...
T his week the Torah introduces us to “Abraham our Father.” If Abraham is “our” father, the father of the entire Jewish people, he is my father. Having studied Abraham’s life for decades now, I have ...
Numerous questions arise when we delve into the biblical portion concerning Abraham in Lekh Lekha, Genesis 12:1-17:27. One such question is the apparent mistake in narrating Abraham’s story, which ...
We'll look at twelve Bible stories that, beyond their miracles and heroism, delve into moral dilemmas. From Abraham's ...