Abraham and Sarah are two people who wander from Ur of the Chaldees to Mesopotamia, from Mesopotamia to Canaan, and in Canaan (the Promised Land) find famine, and go down to Egypt where Sarah is ...

The Midrash correctly indicates that Abraham and Sarah both influenced non-Jews to become Jewish but it doesn’t explain why Sarai made more converts than Abraham.

Abraham had another wife, Keturah. She had six sons by Abraham (Genesis 25). So of the eight sons of Abraham, only Isaac was the son of Abraham and Sarah; only Isaac was the son the God had promised.

CAN ABRAHAM, SARAH, AND HAGAR DO TESHUVAH? The three parents are both victims and perpetrators (perhaps Hagar less so than the other two). Can they make it up to their blameless children?

In the Torah portion Lech Lecha we read about Abraham and Sarah, the founding ancestors of the Jewish nation. In the narrative Abraham and Sarah make aliyah, literally ascending to the Land of ...

What makes the story of Avraham (Abraham) and Sarah going to Egypt important enough to be included in the Genesis narrative? (Genesis 12:10-20) Ramban suggests that this is an example of the maxim ...

Abraham is 75 and enjoying retirement when God tells him to pack up and move because he’s to be the progenitor of a great nation. Abraham, wise and virtuous, hits the road. Years pass, and Go… ...

God changed both Abraham and Sarah’s names: Abram to Abraham, and Sarai to Sarah. What is the significance of this name change? The Talmud in Berachot 13a explains that both changes share a ...

Both of Lincoln's siblings helped make him the man—and president—he eventually became. Find out more about the often overlooked members of the Lincoln family.

The story of Sarah and Hagar begins in Genesis 11. Sarah, then called Sarai, and Abraham, called Abram, marry and wander the Near and Middle East. A famine sends them to Egypt.