All four narratives are about the human condition as such. Their message is universal and eternal, as befits a book about G-d who is universal and eternal.
Consider the story of Abraham’s passing off Sarah as his sister as the family is travelling through Gerar (Gen. 20). King Abimelech sends for Sarah, but then has a dream in which God accuses ...
Nevertheless I will argue my ways before Him. 1 Now there was a famine in the land, besides the previous famine that had occurred in the days of Abraham. So Isaac went to Gerar, to Abimelech king of ...
In the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, Abraham argues with God. Hearing the cities will be destroyed for the depravity of the ...
Before the Bible tells us God commanded Abraham to go to a distant, unfamiliar land, which would be where there’s now a ...
Milei, who studies regularly with a rabbi but is not Jewish, name-checked the week's Torah portion, Lech Lecha.
When it came time to swear in his new foreign minister, Argentina’s president, Javier Milei, turned to one of his favorite ...