Avraham's Test - Part 1 - Rabbi Dr. David Gottlieb

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I one of the most difficult passages in the entire Tana and the entire Bible where God tells Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac people are morally outraged by the idea associated with ancient human sacrifice which is savage barbarian immoral criminal and fattening it's got everything wrong with it and I can't imagine how there could be such a such an incident in our literature now what I proposed to do is go through the passage I can explain every detail and every verse but their number of details that can be explained and they have independent interest by way of familiarizing you with a story that'll probably take two days or so and then I'll adjust the philosophical question of how God could possibly command human sacrifice okay so it starts and it happened after these things that God tested Abraham said to Abraham replied Here I am now God is going to asked Abraham to do something and then Abraham is faced with the difficulty and we'll see how he responds to it what does it mean that God tested him does that mean that does that imply that God doesn't know without testing him what he will do you well if it doesn't then how do you understand the idea of God testing him because Abraham okay what's what's going on here is something quite important is the difference between the definition of a test and the purpose of a test the definition of a test is to reveal a characteristic that is otherwise hidden that's what tests do you put lupus paper in a liquid to test whether it is acid or base changes color and you know the Potter who wants to sell his pots and the brier says they look fragile to me Potter shows or you think they're fragile watch this holds up up up X a

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2. 4:39take your son your only one whom you love Isaac and go to the land of…
3. 9:18stone voice test well maybe so but then if you if you bother to read the…
4. 13:57you look back to the beginning of Abraham's history that's brought in the written Torah on…
5. 18:42no pressure to think of it as allegorical why should you automatically assume that it is…
6. 23:51stand for me in this 10th test so that it will not be said that the…
7. 28:32really Isaac tied to it sacrifice just bring him back there because it's going to be…
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