Before the Bible tells us God commanded Abraham to go to a distant, unfamiliar land, which would be where there’s now a ...

As the sum of the first five pentagonal numbers, 75 is a pyramidal number, a mathematical representation of Abram’s name: ...

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 other words: “Leave me alone. I’ve got mine, and you’ve got yours, and that is all that really matters. Let us retreat ...

Abraham, his son, becomes the first patriarch, followed by Isaac and then Jacob. A second son, Haran, is Sarah’s father (Rashi, 11:29). And Rebecca, Rachel, and Leah descend from Nachor ...

Much happens in the 24 years that Parashat Lech Lecha spans, and it can be summarised in one sentence: By the end of the ...

After Sarah’s death, Abraham sent his servant back to the region of Haran in the hope of obtaining a wife for Isaac from his own family line. The servant came upon Rebekah, where the longest story of ...

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 ...

Ur and Haran. Without getting too exact, we are discussing Mesopotamia. Somewhere around there are the people that Abraham and his father Terach decided to leave, or reject, or were thrown out from.[ ...

Milei, who studies regularly with a rabbi but is not Jewish, name-checked the week's Torah portion, Lech Lecha.

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 ...