Vayera: Was The Akedah Optional? | Rabbi Ariel Mizrahi

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Okay, good morning everyone. Thank you for joining us on this beautiful Friday morning as we are heading into a early Shabbat as we move the clocks. So, a lot to do, a lot to get ready for. Let's jump right into it. of course has the climax of and we cannot speak enough about it is something that always bothers us when we read about it hard to bothers us when we read about it hard to understand why would God want such a thing the real answer is God did not want such a thing because he told him at the end don't do it but it was a test and it was a difficult test and Abraham passed the test with flying colors. Till today we are reaping the benefits of that test. [snorts] It is front and center. We read about it. People pay a lot of money for the aliyah and money for the aliyah and we blow a chauff of a ram to remember the we do a lot of things to remember. We have a head of a sheep of a ram on shah at the to remember. There's a lot that we do in [snorts] the merit of I mean historically in our culture and it's in our tradition. It's part of Jewish people stands very high but this was not his only test. He had 10 tests and they were all difficult.

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10. 24:07and the this and that. No, no, no, no, no, Rabbi, yes or no. Allowed or…

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