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 ...

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 ...

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.

and Isaac handed it on to his own son, Jacob. Therefore Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are known as Israel’s patriarchs. Abraham is believed to be the founder of Judaism and he made a covenant with ...

There above it stood God … “Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, ‘God is truly in this place, but I did not know it.’ He was ...

Jews don’t stand still except when standing before G-d. The universe, from galaxies to subatomic particles, is in constant motion, and so is the Jewish soul.

We believe in Allah and that which is revealed unto us and that which was revealed unto Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the tribes, and that which Moses and Jesus received ...

Fighting for? Dying for? This week’s Parsha, Vayetzei, focuses on how Jacob became Israel, the next in line after Abraham and Isaac, the successor in the covenant that started with Abraham.

This is the Daily Gospel for today, December 16, 2024, which is the Tuesday of the third week of Advent. READ MORE: Daily ...

His brothers were Abraham and Jacob. After education at Leiden he married Elisabeth Pope and was appointed to a history lectureship at Cambridge. Their son John died young and their other children ...