The first convert Avram made was a neighbor named Eved Shemesh from the city of Damascus, He was a sun worshiper. Once, when Eved Shemesh got a bad sunburn, Avram asked him if the sun god was angry at ...

We would have expected a Torah potion that’s called “The Life of Sarah” to tell us about Sarah’s life, but the name of the ...

Hagar returned and bore Avram’s son Ishma’el at the end of Genesis 16. In Genesis 17, Avram is circumcised, and the covenant ...

In return, God promised to give Abraham and his wife Sarah the child they both longed for, and to name their descendants as his chosen people. Abraham agreed that he and his descendants would obey ...

Abraham is an important figure in Christianity, Islam and Judaism. The story of Abraham can be found in the Book of Genesis - the first book in the Christian Bible and in the Torah of Judaism.

Abraham obeyed God stoically, dutifully, while Sarah was isolated, left behind with no voice in Isaac’s fate. The next we ...

In parashat Hayei Sarah, the Torah recounts how Abraham began to worry about finding a suitable match for his son Isaac. To ...

As a couple, Abraham and Sarah together faced pain, obstacles and challenges. Their emunah was painfully tested and what do they teach us? “Kol mah d’avid Rachmana l’tova oseh…” Whatever Hashem does ...

No, not a political message, but one from the Torah. Let’s talk about Abraham and Sarah in Genesis. According to a midrash (“stories about stories in the Bible,” as per Rabbi Marc Gellman ...

Midrash teaches us that Abraham and Sarah knew a secret about "reversing the aging process"...the older they got, the more they seemed to exude the evocative concept of eternal youth. Jim Long and ...