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 ...

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

For it was Sarah who gave Hagar, her maid-servant, to Abraham, in the hope that they would have a child, a child that would be theirs just like all of Jacob’s sons, whether they were from Rachel ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...