Abraham
Can you imagine the person who bathed you and put you to bed at night tying you up one day and holding a knife to your throat?
To know the mind of God we simply need to know what it is to be a parent.
Noah, Haran, and the Torah’s message for those who neither believe nor disbelieve.
How arguing with God became acceptable.
Greater than Abraham.
In memory of a great Jewish thinker.
Why did medieval rabbis leave so many hairs un-split?
How her fear and her mistreatment of Hagar the Egyptian helped forge the descendants of Abraham into a people, in a forge of 400 years.
One offered his daughters to the mob, the other his son to God.
News from the ruins in Tell el-Hammam in Jordan.
Abraham and Moses are considered wholly righteous men, but Noah isn’t quite. That’s because, unlike them, he does what he’s told without question.
According to Genesis, Abraham hailed from a Mesopotamian city called “Ur Kasdim,” a name usually rendered in English as “Ur of the Chaldeans.” Most commentators. . .
It isn’t Moses, despite the four books devoted to his adventures—it’s Abraham. Why?