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On Oct 13, 2020, at 10:05 AM, Effy Unterman <feir...@gmail.com> wrote:
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On the topic of Avraham and the Akedah, Rav Amital assumes that Avraham prayed for Yitzchak to be spared. He has an interesting essay on this in "When God is Near" (page 141). Some select quotes:Immediately we ask: Was it really Abraham’sprayer that brought about God’s intervention in the Akedah? Surely from the beginning God’s intention was merely to test him, and there was never the slightest possibility that Abraham would sacrifice his son?From the Mishna (Ta'anit 2:4) we see that our Sages knew that the halting of the Akedah represented not only the realization of the divine will, but also a response to Abraham’s human cry. Even had the divine plan not been to prevent the slaying, Isaac would have been saved by virtue of Abraham’s prayer... Clearly, Hazal based themselves on a tradition that Abraham prayed, that he instituted a “prayer service” at that moment which has endured for generations...Despite God’s commandment to sacrifice his son, Abraham did not accept its finality; he prayed for his son. [There is] a dual response to God’s command. On the one hand, he was a loyal servant, eager to fulfill his Creator’s word; on the other hand, he was a loving and compassionate father who could not control his feelings, and prayed for his son, pleading for his life to be spared.We are familiar with the phenomenon of the suppression of any human or parental feelings while in the throes of religious ecstasy. In biblical times this found expression in the worship of Moloch, and in our times we see the same attitude in the response of our neighbors to the death of a “shahid.” Had Abraham’s test lacked this human dimension, the Akedah would not only lose its grandeur, but perhaps the whole episode would have been illegitimate and invalid.
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