To understand Abraham properly ... And it is that covenant that remains the cornerstone of Jewish identity as well as the foundation into which we Gentiles, the wild olive branch, has been ...

This covenant establishes what we might call ... Hear Shaye Cohen comment on the importance of the Babylonian Exile to the Jewish religion. Abraham is the great forefather of Judaism, but was ...

The Jewish emblem is the Magen David (Shield ... Christians believe that God’s covenant with Abraham has now been replaced with a new covenant. The old covenant was based on following laws ...

Fulfilling the commandment of circumcision means taking the ordinary body of a human being and transforming it into something holy that has been brought into the covenant/treaty of Hashem’s people.

Consider their inheritance: their great-grandfather Abraham disowned his son Ishmael ... For them, the Jewish covenant wasn’t rooted in family — it was about committing to God’s mission.

We saw last week the central point of Abraham’s (still, technically, Abram’s) life: God made a covenant with him. Having led him out of his homeland to an unknown foreign land, God now enters ...

The term covenant refers to a promise or agreement which is made between two people or groups of people. Judasim teaches that covenants were made between God and Noah, Abraham and Moses.

The Yale Jewish Lives series ... would draw the distinction with his name change — from Abram to Abraham — or with the ...

This covenant is expanded in Genesis 13: ... encompassing modern Israel—to Abraham’s descendants, the Jewish people. This promise is reiterated in Genesis 15:18-21, where God specifies the ...