I retired from my secular career a year ago this month, and last fall — with all the other kids — I went back to school. In my case, I took two semesters of Biblical Hebrew, the language of the Old ...

in Genesis 22:1–19, God tests Abraham’s faith by commanding him to sacrifice his only son, Isaac. Abraham, who had waited decades for the birth of Isaac, the son promised by God to carry on his ...

(JTA) — This piece was originally delivered as a sermon titled “The Cries of Isaac and Ishmael” at Central Synagogue on the first day of Rosh Hashanah in 2025. I have been a rabbi for 25 years, 20 of ...

God promised Abraham many offspring. By human logic, that was incredible. But Abraham gave it credence. Yet Abraham and Sarah also decided to take matters into their own hands and “help God along” on ...

When analyzing the oldest books of the Bible, scholars have identified the work of various writers and editors. But how did the final version come to be? THE HEBREW BIBLEThis ancient scroll of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I retired from my secular career a year ago this month, and last fall — with all the other kids — I went back to school. In my ...