Avraham has spent his entire career identifying the one God of this diverse universe. He didn’t just detect a Creator through the beauty of nature
This week is the second wedding anniversary of my older brother Binyamin and his wife, Sarah Miriam. They were older singles and the joy at
Parshat Vayeira When studying this week’s haftarah over the past years, we have discussed the parallels between the stories included in the parsha itself and
At the end of Parshat Vayeira we read about the major event in Avraham Avinu’s life. According to most Rishonim, the Akeida is the tenth
I. The Problematic Theology of the Stranger Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, zt”l, whose first yahrzeit falls this year on October 26 (20 Cheshvan), opened up
If ignorance is bliss, illiteracy can be beneficial. It was the final Friday of the past summer’s camping season. I was in our bungalow in
Must we be consistent in our religious practices? May we pick and choose for convenience, so long as it has been endorsed by some religious
At first blush, the link between Parshat Vayeira and its haftarah seems to be in the second section, with the unexpected birth of a child
How was Avraham able to do it? No matter how many times we read the famous story of Akeidat Yitzchak, the question continues to leap
1. Our topic is the word פלא and its derivatives such as נפלא. As one scholar has written, this root usually describes “extraordinary phenomena, transcending
It’s not just cars that are in short supply. One of the hard-hit industries seriously handicapped during the COVID-19 pandemic is—perhaps not so surprisingly—the safrus
It seems cliche already, but as pop music songs have proven, some things never go out of style. One of those ever-lasting, oft sung-about ideas
