Q&A: Abraham our Patriarch
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Abraham our Patriarch
Question
Why is it that if a person today were to decide that the Holy One, blessed be He, appeared to him and told him to go slaughter his son, we would look at him as insane? Yet regarding the Binding of Isaac, we admire Abraham’s greatness.
Answer
A. Maybe back then we would also have seen him that way. But he didn’t exactly ask us—he simply carried it out. We read about it in the Torah, and the Torah says that this really was a divine command.
B. Because prophecy ceased a long time ago.