Infertile Women of the Torah Series

The Infertile Women of the Torah is an occasional series here at Hannah Wept, Sarah Laughed that looks at infertility in the context of the Five Books of Moses (known in the Christian Bible as the Old Testament). This series is not updated on any particular set schedule, but more as the mood strikes me.

All religious and areligious perspectives are welcome here at this blog and I invite all to read and comment on this series of posts.

• A Prayer for a New Year

  In thousands of synagogues and temples this morning, the story of Hannah is being chanted around the world. Hannah, as you may or may not know, weeps and prays before the Lord, to answer her prayers for a son in her barrenness. In recent years, as I co...

• Infertile Women of the Torah: Resourceful Hannah

  The Infertile Women of the Torah is an occasional series here at Hannah Wept, Sarah Laughed that examines the role of infertility in the Torah (Old Testament). Engraving by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1851).In my last post, I introduced the idea tha...

• The Infertile Women of The Torah: Infertility in Biblical Judaism

  Marc Chagall (1956):Hannah prays to the Lord for a son who will be SamuelMy page titled Who Are Hannah and Sarah? consistently gets the second highest number of views on this blog, besides the main page. It makes sense: neither are my name so...