This week, I’m moving out of New York City. It’s not my first time moving, but it is the first time I’m leaving a place with no plan to return to living there. I’ll come visit all the friends I have ...

He (God) said (to Abraham), “Take your son, your only son, the one you love, Isaac, and walk yourself to the land of Moriah and offer him up as a whole burnt offering…” Gen. 22 Had Tolstoy or James or ...

OLD TESTAMENT & ART: Pieter Lastman’s 1614 painting captures the biblical moment when Abraham leaves everything behind to follow God’s call. Pieter Lastman, “Abraham on the Way to Canaan,” 1614, State ...

attempting to fulfil his father’s far-flung goals. Abraham interpreted what this commandment really meant: to be good children we must follow righteous parents’ roles. On Mount Sinai this commandment ...

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