As we know, Rashi, the greatest of our Bible commentators, taught that Jews started seeking converts from the very beginning of their history, when he explained Genesis 12:5, a verse that states ...

Jerusalem Post TRENDING STORIES Abraham’s better half And Sarah died in Kiryat Arba which is Hebron in the Land of Canaan; and Abraham came to eulogize Sarah and to weep over her...’ Genesis ...

The journey will not follow a straight path—Abraham had to move to Egypt soon after arriving in what would be the Promised Land of Canaan—but God is there, every step of the way.

Chapter 22 The sacrifice of Isaac: It is the most harrowing story so far. Over and over Genesis tells us how Abraham had longed for a son with Sarah, how it had been the only thing he had ever ...

Sarah lived 127 years. She died in Hebron, where husband Abraham weighed out 400 shekels of silver to bury her “in the cave of the field at Machpela facing Hebron.” ...

Whereas, when Sarah told him to send Hagar and Ishmael away, his reaction was “it was a very bad thing in Abraham’s eyes, concerning his son”, here we have total apathy.

He (God) said (to Abraham), “Take your son, your only son, the one you love, Isaac, and walk yourself to the land of Moriah and offer him up as a whole burnt offering…” Gen. 22 Had Tolstoy or James or ...

Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, Jacob and Leah, looking upon their holy resting place from above, must be shaking. Not from the cold, not from the rain or snow.

His sister, Sarah, had married one Aaron Grigsby, whom Abraham Lincoln did not like. When Abraham was seventeen years of age, she and the child to whom she was trying to give birth both perished.