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The real test of the Akedah: blind obedience versus moral choice.

Judaism | January 1, 1993 | Copyright

ff; III, 4, p. 137 ff. See also J.D. Bleich, With Perfect Faith (N.Y.: KTAV, 1983), p. 417; and Julius Guttmann, Philosophies of Judaism (N.Y.: Schocken, 1973), pp. 243-4.

44. Ramban notes at Gen. 22:12 that there is significance in the fact that God ordered the slaughter of Isaac, but an angel ordered Abraham to desist (Chavel, Ramban, p. 279). Mysteriously, that explanation, promised to be provided at Gen. 48:16, is not there forthcoming. The Ramban does say earlier, at Gen. 18:1-10, that God often commanded by prophecy, but revoked the command by the word of an angel,…

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