Adelaide Road Synagogue, Image taken by Adina Sarah Abraham The Herzog family moved to Dublin in 1919 and lived on the South Circular Road before moving to a house in Bloomfield Avenue. Dr. Isaac Herzog, who served as chief rabbi, married Sarah Hillman in 1917 and had two sons, Chaim and...
To overcome…faith in Me overcomes and you know that mere mental belief is not the faith I mean. I mean like Abraham who obeyed Me even though I told him to kill his child. He KNEW ME and knew I was not a god who loved murder, especially of innocents. Yet He trusted Me, even th...
But, visited by troubles, Pharaoh began to suspect the truth; and, censuring Abraham, he bade him take his wife and depart. Sarai being still childless, she induced her husband to take her Egyptian handmaid Hagar for a concubine, that through her she might be "built up," Hagar, feeling...
28There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female, for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.29And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise. Click here to download and read the first two chapters...
So God tries everything. He tries wiping us off the face of the earth with a giant flood and starting over again with Noah’s family. But people are still wonderful and terrible. So, God tries choosing one family, Abraham’s family, and makes a covenant with them. But even that specia...
Sarah is the wife of Abraham and is considered a leader of the Jewish people. She was childless until she miraculously became pregnant with Isaac at the age of 90. Initially, her name was Sarai, but God changed it, simultaneously altering Abraham's name as well (see Genesis 17...
And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah. Amplified Bible Abraham said [again] of Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah [into his harem]. ...
contradiction of beauty and freakery” (Hobson 22) embodied in the black female form. Janelle Hobson notes the “erotic” nature of these freakshows: “Moreover, Baartman’s body was constantly depicted in the nude in various caricatures and sketches, which invited a pornographic gaze (Abraham,...
John the Baptist’s first words are harsh. He calls the crowd vipers and tells them they cannot rely on their identity as descendents of Abraham to be saved. He’s alerting the crowd that they will not be able to encounter God without experiencing some kind of change. His words are so ...
As we enter this new year of 5771, imagine what our world might look like if we took to heart the words of the late Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of British Mandate Palestine, Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, z”l, who said, “The Talmud teaches that the Second Temple was destroyed because of causele...