1. השׂתחיה vayı̂śtachû “bow,” or bend the body as a sign of respect to God or man. The attitude varies from a slight inclinati…

This time the patriarch has advanced by ten; before, it was by fives. Pleading men grow bolder and braver in their requests. A man who is very fami…

Which am but dust and ashes. Abraham speaks in this way for the sake of obtaining pardon. For what is mortal man when compared with God? H…

And Abraham answered and said
In a very humble and modest manner, encouraged by the answer given him: be…

Here is the first solemn prayer on record in the Bible; and it is a prayer for the sparing of Sodom. Abraham prayed earnestly that Sodom might be s…