Was God’s command for Abraham to sacrifice his son cruel? Does faith require embracing the unknowable, the inexplicable ...

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After ten days in Israel, I can sum up my impressions using two Semitic words, “Jannat” and “Jahannam,” heaven and hell. Both ...

Anthony Julius' biography of Abraham argues for the duality of the first Jew, with one life based in reason and another in ...

Now we request that you allow us to take a three-day journey into the desert, to sacrifice to the L-rd ... Earlier still we find that three times Abraham and Isaac, forced to leave home because ...

It was the week of Eid-ul-Adha,' he continues his account, 'and I was reading the story of the sacrifice. There were Abraham and Ishmael (in the Koran the episode refers to Ishmael and not Isaac ...

Jesus then was the lamb that Abraham told Isaac God would provide ... When God says in Hosea: “I desire mercy and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.” ...

Will their future generations even remember their sacrifice or will they get lost ... the fire of our fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in every Jewish child across the globe.

Abraham paid a fortune to purchase the Cave of Machpela in Hebron because he was buying Jewish permanence in the Land of Israel. Isaac was ready to sacrifice himself on Mount Moriah, implanting ...

135 A.D. "In Genesis it says, `And God tested Abraham and said to him, "Take your only son whom you love, Isaac, and go to ... (2 Maccabees 12:43) that sacrifice was offered for the dead.