Ishmael

One of the most interesting women in the Bible is Hagar, Abraham's second wife, and the mother of Ishmael. How much do you know about her?

Don't we have a custom not to name a child after a wicked person?

Underlying the tension was the question of succession: which of Abraham’s two children would be the one chosen to carry on his legacy.

Two people—one man and one woman—were charged with the task of introducing monotheism to the world. They were Abraham and Sarah. This is an overview of her life.

A deeper look at the conflict between Sarah and Hagar, and between Yitzchok and Yishmael. This Rosh Hashanah Torah reading demonstrates the triumph of possibility over probability…

The commentators explain Abraham's two sons, Ishmael and Isaac, as signifying Reason on the one hand, and the Jewish dimension beyond Reason...

Abraham, the first of the Three Patriarchs, was chosen by G-d to be the progenitor of the Jewish people.

Why would we want to be shielded from Abraham? He was one of the all-time greats!

But there was another martyr in this attack, an Israeli policeman by the name of Zidan Saif.

Question: The average person, like myself, has been taught that Abraham had two sons: Isaac and Ishmael. The book of Genesis, however, mentions that Abraham had many sons. Do we know who these individuals are today? Did they carry on the Jewish traditions...