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Their water is gone. Facing death by dehydration, Ishmael turns to God, pleading, "O Lord of the world! If it be Thy will that I shall perish, then let me die in some other way, no...
Abraham, busy with honored guests, and Sarah, proving to the women that Isaac was truly her child... they were preoccupied. And at their door stood a beggar, completely ignored. Th...
Abraham found himself in a quandary. "How," he wondered aloud, "am I going to separate my son Isaac from his mother, Sarah?" It's a universal question, isn't it? How do we let go, ...
That feeling, that universal human experience, echoes powerfully in the story of Sarah and Isaac's parting. Imagine Sarah, having spent the entire night weeping for Isaac. This isn...
It's a city that resonates through millennia, a place where, according to legend, the very ground remembers the most important moments in our shared past. Think about Abraham, read...
We find this story in Genesis 23, but the details really come alive in the rabbinic imagination, especially in Ginzberg's Legends of the Jews. So, Sarah has passed, and Abraham nee...
According to some fascinating strands of Jewish tradition, not necessarily! The Legends of the Jews hints that even after Abraham's passing, his work wasn't finished. It paints a p...
The people of Hebron certainly did, right before Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Imagine this: It's the eve of the holiest day of the year, a time for communal prayer and reflect...
That's precisely what unfolds in this remarkable story from Legends of the Jews, as retold by Ginzberg. The scene is Hebron, a city of immense significance in Jewish history, resti...
