Faith can be the foundation of a profound relationship with God, and by extension with all of God’s creation. But it can have another side, a dark shadow Of all the stories in the Torah, we read the ...

This week's Parsha tells us about what happened soon after the "Akeida" of Yitzchak. Yitzhak returns from Mount Moriah sound and safe. However, we know that the event had tremendous consequences - on ...

Through the course of the year, the akeida, the binding of Isaac, is read more than any other narrative in the Torah. It is read as part of this week’s parasha, Vayera, as well as on the second day of ...

‘Take your son, your only son, the one you love – Isaac – and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.’ (Gen. 22:2) Thus begins one of the most ...

One of the most fundamental stories in Jewish history is that of the Akeida. Avraham takes Yitzchak with him and together they head up Mount Moriah, where Avraham is supposed to sacrifice Yitzchak to ...

Isaac is the first Jewish activist, the first Jew willing to lay his body on the line for his beliefs. If we believe that Isaac was not a passive participant but a willing volunteer and collaborator ...

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Michael Frayn’s 1998 play, Copenhagen, concerns a meeting between two great physicists, Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg, in 1941 in Copenhagen. In this play, the spirits of Heisenberg, Bohr, and Bohr ...