Having suffered so much in the way of famine and in Sarah’s case being held captive in Egypt, how could we not rejoice when she gave birth to her son Isaac at the ripe “young age” of 90!

I am ashamed to say it, but when I was a kid I thought Isaac, the Jewish patriarch, was a wuss: a good son, a spitting image of his father, a willing volunteer to be sacrificed to God, a learned ...

A few verses earlier God instructs Isaac not to go down to Egypt. Isaac is the only patriarch who does not leave the land of Israel. Abraham has been led to a new land. His son proves that his ...

Herzog might have thought that lighting the first Hanukkah candle in the Cave of the Patriarchs where Abraham, Sarah, Isaac and Jacob are buried would be a symbolic act of unity. What he ...

Which of the Patriarchs is your favorite: Abraham, Isaac or Jacob? Abraham and Jacob get a lot of “screen time,” and poor Isaac is rarely heard from within the text of our Torah. The first ...