Through digital painting, Ash reinterprets the story of Abraham's trial of faith and the near-sacrifice of his son Isaac. The piece delves into themes of competing loyalties, familial bonds, and ...

God could never have expected Abraham to kill Isaac. Others infer that God never asked Abraham to sacrifice his son literally, because God only considers kosher animals fit for offerings ...

The next book of the Torah, Exodus, begins with an ideal brotherhood: Moses and Aaron, two brothers who work together and ...

81 x 65 cm. (31.9 x 25.6 in.) ...

All Divine revelations to the patriarchs dealt with establishing the people of Israel – that they would multiply, inherit the ...

Sacrifice 311 (credit ... The narrative rockets us from the seemingly happy ending as Isaac is spared and Abraham passes God’s test to the unexpected tragic death Sarah. In one midrashic ...

To be sure, a persistent theme of the patriarchal stories is the two promises G-d made to each of them, namely that they would have many descendants and that they would inherit the land of Canaan.

In Genesis, the first book of the Bible, God gives a promise to Abraham’s second wife Hagar. At the time she receives it, the ...

80.5 x 141 cm. (31.7 x 55.5 in.) ...

Abraham instituted shacharit, the morning prayer, Isaac minchah ... There was a morning and afternoon offering but no evening sacrifice. The two views differ precisely on this, that for those ...

In 28:4, Isaac asked God to give Jacob the “blessing of Abraham.” What was this blessing of Abraham? Several commentaries express that Jacob would be the heir who gets the the blessings that ...