“Hashem said to Avram: Get yourself away from your country and from your birth-place and from your father’s house” (Genesis 12:1). “But Lord, how can I leave my country? Look – I’m 75 years old, You ...

Jewish tradition places great significance on names. With the addition of just one letter, at the age of 99, Abram becomes Abraham and his transformation to the father of many nations is confirmed. At ...

This transition is one that has occupied my interest for many years (I’m actually writing a book about it!). If we look at the beginning of Parshat Lech Lecha (Bereshit 12:1), it seems that God told ...

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Parashat Lech Lecha opens with G-d’s first call to Avram, when he was 75 years old, telling him to leave Haran, his familiar surroundings, and his family home, and to make Aliyah. It concludes with ...

Avram and Sarai decide to leave Canaan in a surprisingly abrupt fashion. Just a few verses earlier, at the beginning of Genesis Chapter 12, Avram was told to uproot his family and venture into the ...

This week's Torah portion - that part of the Hebrew Bible, which is read and studied this week - Genesis 12-17, known in Hebrew as "Lech Lecha," or "Go! Go! For yourself..." is the way we are ...

Last week we read Parshat Lech Lecha, where Avraham was commanded by Hashem to “Go from your land, from your relatives, and from your father’s house to the land that I will show you….” Avraham did as ...