The title of this piece points to the central event under discussion: Abraham’s attempted sacrifice of Isaac on Mount Moriah. But, given our discussion of last week and the week before, it might also ...

What offering does God want? Not Isaac for sure. This series started with a story of human sacrifice that masquerades as a punishment for a crime. In the Bible there are stories of explicitly ...

The story of Abraham’s near-sacrifice of Isaac has all the drama of a Hollywood movie. [Read: Genesis 22:1-4.] Image from page 127 of “Delightful stories; or, Home talks out of the Wonderful book.” ...

Abraham sacrifices Isaac. Chromolithograph based on a drawing (1860) by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (German painter, 1794 – 1872), published ca. 1880. ZU_09/Getty Images We have been horrified in ...

Gen. 22: 9.--And they came to the place which God had told them of: and Abraham built an altar there and laid the wood in order; and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar on the wood.

Q: Good God Squad piece this week, Rabbi! I am preaching this coming Sunday on that father/son relationship of Abraham and Isaac at my church in Patchogue, N.Y., where I serve as pastor. I love your ...

In trying to explain why it was that God commanded Abraham to sacrifice his favorite son, Isaac, the book of Jubilees, a non-canonical book written in ancient Israel around 180 BCE, credits Satan with ...

Tatana Hobson 14, Annia Hobson 13, and Leilany Canate, 16, mourn in front of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Sunday, Feb. 18, 2018. A gunman entered the school last ...

I’m obligated to a high standard of confidentiality. I also find the stories on social media hard to resist.