Sarah's Abduction by Pharaoh

The Midrash sees Sarah’s abduction by Pharaoh and her subsequent liberation as a precedent for Abraham and Sarah’s children’s future sojourn in Egypt. According to the chassidic masters, it also illuminates the soul-body relationship within each individua...

The women in Abraham’s family were abducted (or nearly abducted) no less than four times . . .

A superficial reading of the biblical account of Abraham and Sarah’s episode in Egypt, where he tells her to say she’s his sister so they don’t kill him, is shrouded in mystery. Delve into the classical commentaries and discover the missing link in this f...

Is money good or bad? Is it only a means to an end, or is there some intrinsic spirtiual component to money that makes it so powerful?

Even in modern times, when we have reached unprecedented advances in the treatment of women, we need to rethink and challenge our value system.

Abraham’s greatness allowed him to recognize and submit to his wife’s power--and to realize that she had abilities that he did not.

Even when we are experiencing our personal famines, our relationship with G‑d is still present and accessible.

When Abraham feared that the Egyptians would kill him in order to take his wife, he asked her to pretend that she was his sister. We examine the meaning of the verse (Genesis 12:13), “Say that you are my sister, so that they will favor me.”

Sarah was the wife of Abraham, and the first of the four matriarchs of the Jewish nation. She is widely referred to as Sarah Imeinu, “Sarah Our Mother.” Along with her husband, the Patriarch Abraham, Sarah was instrumental in teaching thousands of people ...