Jews do not accept the world that is. They challenge it in the name of the world that ought to be. Walk ahead. Take personal ...

But a question remains. Why did God call on Abraham to challenge Him? Was there anything Abraham knew that God didn’t know? That idea is absurd. The answer is surely this: Abraham was to become ...

The Akeidah opens with the words “And it came to pass, after these events, that God tested Abraham” (Genesis 22:1). The ...

Again, though, God revealed Himself first to Abraham, when he was Abram. Then, He revealed Himself to Jacob while he was still called Jacob. So, when God revealed Himself as the God of Abraham, Isaac, ...

It was my first year in the rabbinate. Ron, a local Minister I had just met, asked me: “When did you receive your calling?” I ...

What exactly is faith? That was the question posed by Barry Fields, pastor of Glendale at Cave Mill, who then surmised “It ...

Thus, it sounds like Abraham was selected for greatness at ... Thus, although he was selected as a candidate for greatness when God first called out to him, and he was able to receive blessings ...

Thus Prophet Abraham-the-Hebrew’s descendants through Prophets Isaac and Jacob (Israel) became, as God had promised, a great multitude of ongoing and abiding to this day, monotheists called th ...

If only. Can God work this way? Sure, he is free to do so. But ask yourself: does he normally work this way? When God called Abraham to leave his homeland behind and set out for Canaan, I don’t think ...