The Akidah
Study 8-20
Genesis 22:5-14
Abraham speaks with the servants
Abraham and Isaac go on together
Isaac asks about the offering
Abraham binds Isaac
V5. Stay here with donkey
Abraham saw the Devine presence.
With donkey. Servants didn't see the devine and were like donkeys
Donkey is about spiritual blindness.
S R Hirsch. This is where they separate themselves from others.
Theme of the story. True worship requires solitude.
Says to servants. Boy and I will go. Term for boy. Isaac was 37 years old but logic of the story holds him as younger.
Abraham & Isaac - Sculpture by George Segal. (another interesting sculpture in Tel Aviv Museum of Arthttp://www.jewishpress.com/printArticle.cfm?contentid=33605 )
Says to the servants we will return to you. Showing that Abraham knew that they would return.
Worship. Actual word is more like to bow but more like in respect. Prostrate on ground.
Prostration in worship. Shows up again. When buying the burial ground fornsarah. Sign of respect. Faces on the ground
Genesis 42. Joseph brothers. Book of Esther - People bowed to Haman. Mordechai refused. Other examples in Tanach. And in the psalm come let us prostrate and bend knee.
This was common until the middle ages. Maimonades say a worship standingnwith hands crossed over heart.
Signs of prostration today in service. In barchu, aleinu, the amidah, on shabbat.
Once a year traditional Jews still prostrate self on the high holidays. Rosh hashannah.
Velveteen rabbi blog entry ... http://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2004/09/the_great_alein.html
Malchuyot part of the Rosh Hashana service. Prostration is done. Can be a profound experience.
Melach. Acronym for Mind heart and body ... To pray with all. This is done in the Great Aleinu after reading the Torah story about Sarah and Hagar ... The beginning of the story...
Reform website... It is now beginning to talk about this... Some synagogues are starting to do this. There is debate starting on this topic
After Mordechai we do not bow to anyone but God. With the reform movement. Have we evolved to a point that we don't even bow to God?
Took wood off donkey and put on son and he took fire stone and knife. The dangerous items. Isaac carry wood is source for Jesus carrying the cross. Knife is a symbol of the akidah.
Chiam Guri poem. Heritage - pictures the akidah.
Heritage - Haim Gouri
The ram came last of all. And Abraham
did not know that it came to answer the
boy's question – first of his strength
when his day was on the wane.
The old man raised his head. Seeing
that it was no dream and that the angel
stood there – the knife slipped from his hand.
The boy, released from his bonds,
saw his father's back.
Isaac, as the story goes, was not
sacrificed. He lived for many years,
saw what pleasure had to offer,
until his eyesight dimmed.
But he bequeathed that hour to his offspring.
They are born with a knife in their hearts.
Isaac. Bequeathed this to his sons..they are born with that knife in their hearts. Lingering pain of the episode. We carry that knife with us.
End the two walked on together. Emphasis on their walking together. Theme what means.
SRH.. Sons assimilating ... Phrase occurs three times. Show all fathers and sons that must walk together to face difficult challenges. Bound by love even in different situations.
Isaac. My father. Abraham answers. Here I am my son.
Reassures Isaac that his father doesn't want to kill him.
Then he asks where is the lamb?
God will see to the lamb.
Rashi... God will see and select for himself... If not then Isaac will be the offering. Abraham is telling the truth.
Text doesn't talk about their feelings... Thus Midrash.
SRH. Isaac did not receive any Devine command. Only from his father. Isaac stands for this tradition of receiving the tradition as our heritage.
Again they walk on together. . . Even after the answer
Next verse. String of verbs. Arrive, arrange, bound, put on altar .... In silence.
Sarna - verb only once in bible. Aiyn kuf Dalet. This is where the name akidah comes from .
Peter Pitzele. Why binding is a brilliant name for the scene. This is the most intense moment in the story. That which binds us makes our bonds. A new bond between father and son. Freedom contrasts to Bondage... They work together.
Bonds hold things together... Story is about all types of binding..
Rabbi Norman Cohen. Modern Commentary - we are adept at sacrificing that which is important to us. Often we cannot hear the cry of the angel. We get so wrapped up in the task that we do not hear the cry... The need to listen.
Abraham says "my only son" .. Midrash criticizes Abraham for this because he has another son. However the law of the time may have clarified this because Sarah is the wife.
Story is about perception that changes over time. Before they see the beauty of the story but contemporary views focus on the trauma of it...
We now see it as Barbary. But then it was seen as Abraham giving up what was most important to him.
Genesis 22:5-14
Abraham speaks with the servants
Abraham and Isaac go on together
Isaac asks about the offering
Abraham binds Isaac
V5. Stay here with donkey
Abraham saw the Devine presence.
With donkey. Servants didn't see the devine and were like donkeys
Donkey is about spiritual blindness.
S R Hirsch. This is where they separate themselves from others.
Theme of the story. True worship requires solitude.
Says to servants. Boy and I will go. Term for boy. Isaac was 37 years old but logic of the story holds him as younger.
Abraham & Isaac - Sculpture by George Segal. (another interesting sculpture in Tel Aviv Museum of Arthttp://www.jewishpress.com/printArticle.cfm?contentid=33605 )
Says to the servants we will return to you. Showing that Abraham knew that they would return.
Worship. Actual word is more like to bow but more like in respect. Prostrate on ground.
Prostration in worship. Shows up again. When buying the burial ground fornsarah. Sign of respect. Faces on the ground
Genesis 42. Joseph brothers. Book of Esther - People bowed to Haman. Mordechai refused. Other examples in Tanach. And in the psalm come let us prostrate and bend knee.
This was common until the middle ages. Maimonades say a worship standingnwith hands crossed over heart.
Signs of prostration today in service. In barchu, aleinu, the amidah, on shabbat.
Once a year traditional Jews still prostrate self on the high holidays. Rosh hashannah.
Velveteen rabbi blog entry ... http://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2004/09/the_great_alein.html
Malchuyot part of the Rosh Hashana service. Prostration is done. Can be a profound experience.
Melach. Acronym for Mind heart and body ... To pray with all. This is done in the Great Aleinu after reading the Torah story about Sarah and Hagar ... The beginning of the story...
Reform website... It is now beginning to talk about this... Some synagogues are starting to do this. There is debate starting on this topic
After Mordechai we do not bow to anyone but God. With the reform movement. Have we evolved to a point that we don't even bow to God?
Took wood off donkey and put on son and he took fire stone and knife. The dangerous items. Isaac carry wood is source for Jesus carrying the cross. Knife is a symbol of the akidah.
Chiam Guri poem. Heritage - pictures the akidah.
Heritage - Haim Gouri
The ram came last of all. And Abraham
did not know that it came to answer the
boy's question – first of his strength
when his day was on the wane.
The old man raised his head. Seeing
that it was no dream and that the angel
stood there – the knife slipped from his hand.
The boy, released from his bonds,
saw his father's back.
Isaac, as the story goes, was not
sacrificed. He lived for many years,
saw what pleasure had to offer,
until his eyesight dimmed.
But he bequeathed that hour to his offspring.
They are born with a knife in their hearts.
Isaac. Bequeathed this to his sons..they are born with that knife in their hearts. Lingering pain of the episode. We carry that knife with us.
End the two walked on together. Emphasis on their walking together. Theme what means.
SRH.. Sons assimilating ... Phrase occurs three times. Show all fathers and sons that must walk together to face difficult challenges. Bound by love even in different situations.
Isaac. My father. Abraham answers. Here I am my son.
Reassures Isaac that his father doesn't want to kill him.
Then he asks where is the lamb?
God will see to the lamb.
Rashi... God will see and select for himself... If not then Isaac will be the offering. Abraham is telling the truth.
Text doesn't talk about their feelings... Thus Midrash.
SRH. Isaac did not receive any Devine command. Only from his father. Isaac stands for this tradition of receiving the tradition as our heritage.
Again they walk on together. . . Even after the answer
Next verse. String of verbs. Arrive, arrange, bound, put on altar .... In silence.
Sarna - verb only once in bible. Aiyn kuf Dalet. This is where the name akidah comes from .
Peter Pitzele. Why binding is a brilliant name for the scene. This is the most intense moment in the story. That which binds us makes our bonds. A new bond between father and son. Freedom contrasts to Bondage... They work together.
Bonds hold things together... Story is about all types of binding..
Rabbi Norman Cohen. Modern Commentary - we are adept at sacrificing that which is important to us. Often we cannot hear the cry of the angel. We get so wrapped up in the task that we do not hear the cry... The need to listen.
Abraham says "my only son" .. Midrash criticizes Abraham for this because he has another son. However the law of the time may have clarified this because Sarah is the wife.
Story is about perception that changes over time. Before they see the beauty of the story but contemporary views focus on the trauma of it...
We now see it as Barbary. But then it was seen as Abraham giving up what was most important to him.
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