Before the Bible tells us God commanded Abraham to go to a distant, unfamiliar land, which would be where there’s now a ...
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 ...
As the sum of the first five pentagonal numbers, 75 is a pyramidal number, a mathematical representation of Abram’s name: ...
Much happens in the 24 years that Parashat Lech Lecha spans, and it can be summarised in one sentence: By the end of the ...
Haran died in the presence of his father Terah ... Some 430 years later, following the sin of the spies, Abraham’s descendants made the same mistake. On the threshold of the Land of Israel ...
In the third month (which we call Sivan) of the year 2448 from the creation of Adam – marking 500 years since the birth of Abraham – the nation of Israel passed from being “children of Noah” (like the ...
Terach, Abraham’s father, is often viewed in the Midrash as an evil man and nothing more than an idol worshipper (Bereishit Rabbah 38:13). A review of the literal text indicates otherwise. First ...
In other words: “Leave me alone. I’ve got mine, and you’ve got yours, and that is all that really matters. Let us retreat ...
Shaye Cohen: The biblical narrative gets going with Abraham in Genesis chapter 12. Abraham in turn Isaac, in turn Jacob, in turn Joseph and the twelve tribes, this brings us directly to the people ...
Teen Mom' Alum Farrah Abraham Shares Video of Daughter, 14, Getting Facial Piercings for Her Birthday Farrah Abraham Says 'Sometimes People Turn into Monsters' After Kissing Pics with Ex Mack ...
Basel Adra, a Palestinian, and Yuval Abraham, an Israeli, spent five years making a movie that depicts daily life in Adra’s ...
He was irreverent, witty, scathing. In each tiny frame, he told a whole story and raised deep questions. See what made, and ...