The Jewish people have followed the model of Chayei Sarah, where death ultimately leads to renewal and rebirth, since time ...

Jewish academic and Hebrew scholar Irene Lancaster explains the Jewish interpretation of Abraham and God's covenant promise.

Abraham’s Home Hospitality Parshat Vayera begins with Abraham and Sarah’s hospitality to the three messengers of God, when ...

The Torah portions Lech Lecha, Vayera, and Hayei Sarah form a trilogy of leadership, from vision to continuity. Abraham and ...

Prophet Abraham, the Hebrew ( Genesis 14:13 ), was the first, and only prophet, to successfully establish, through the biological descendants of his two sons, Prophet Ishmael and Prophet Isaac, three ...

On Rosh Hashanah, we read these words not as a quaint miracle of the past, but as the very essence of the day. Rashi reminds us that Isaac was born exactly at the time promised — down to the second.

Palestinian writers George Abraham and Sarah Aziza were in the middle of an ongoing correspondence. Then came October 7. Palestinians flee Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on January 26, ...

The Yale Jewish Lives series, which has volumes devoted to figures as diverse as Harry Houdini and Henrietta Szold, had a conspicuous gap in its library: an account of the first Jewish life. In the ...

The Book of Genesis, which has been focusing on Abraham and his relationship with God, takes a detour to discuss the fate of Lot and, with it, of Sodom and Gomorrah. As our times show some tendency to ...

Are you feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or disconnected from the life you want? Whether you’re navigating anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma, or life transitions, you’re not alone—and you don’t have ...