He appeared Part 7 (Gen 22:1)

The Sacrifice of Isaac

1 After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”

After these things—Some of our rabbis say (Sanhedrin 89b) that it means after the words of Satan who denounced Abraham saying, “Of all the banquets which Abraham prepared not a single bullock nor a single ram did he bring as a sacrifice to you.” God replied to him, “Does he do anything at all except for his son’s sake? Yet if I were to bid him ‘Sacrifice him to me,’ he would not refuse.” Others say that it means “after the words of Ishmael” who boasted to Isaac that he had been circumcised when he was thirteen years old without resisting. Isaac replied to him, “You think to intimidate me by mentioning the loss of one part of the body! If the holy One, blessed be he, were to tell me, ‘Sacrifice yourself to me’ I would not refuse” (Sanhedrin 89b).

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Here I am—Such is the answer of the pious: it is an expression of meekness and readiness (Midrash Tanchuma, Vayera 22).

Megillah 31a:10

The Gemara comments: And nowadays, when there are two days of Rosh HaShana, on the first day they read Gen 21 in accordance with the opinion cited as: Some say. And on the next day they read “And God tested Abraham” (Gen 22), in order to mention the merit of the binding of Isaac on the day of God’s judgment, and they read as the haftara “Is Ephraim My dear son?”

Sanhedrin 89b:8

Apropos the binding of Isaac, the Gemara elaborates: It is written: “After these matters God tried Abraham” (Gen 22:1). The Gemara asks: After what matters? How does the binding of Isaac relate to the preceding events?

Sanhedrin 89b:14

The Gemara cites an alternative explanation of the verse: “After these matters God tried Abraham” (Gen 22:1). Rabbi Levi says: This means after the statement of Ishmael to Isaac, during an exchange between them described in the verse: “But Sarah saw the son of Hagar . . . mocking” (Gen 21:9). Ishmael said to Isaac: I am greater than you in the fulfillment of commandments, as you were circumcised at the age of eight days, without your knowledge and without your consent, and I was circumcised at the age of thirteen years, with both my knowledge and my consent. Isaac said to Ishmael: And do you provoke me with one organ? If the holy One, blessed be he, were to say to me: Sacrifice yourself before me, I would sacrifice myself. Immediately, God tried

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Abraham, to confirm that Isaac was sincere in his offer to give his life.

7 And Isaac said to his father Abraham, “My father!” And he said, “Here I am, my son.” He said, “Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”

11 But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” GEN 22:7, 11

When the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” EXO 3:4

25 And he cried to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a log, and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet.

There the Lord made for them a statute and a rule, and there he tested them,

26 saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.” EXO 15:25-26

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not. EXO 16:4

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