Monthly Archives: August 2020

Woody Allen famously asks how Abraham knew it was G-d (and not, say, his neighbor who likes practical jokes) who ordered him to kill Isaac as a sacrifice. Abraham certainly does appear to be quite certain about the source of the awful command. In fact, the episode of Akedat Yitzhak (the Binding of Isaac) isContinue reading “Akedat Yitzhak as Limmud Torah”