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Yitzchak's Role in the Akeidah

Exegetical Approaches

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Willing Participant

Sources:JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 1:13:2-4About Josephus, Pseudo-Philo32:2-4About Pseudo-Philo, Targum Yerushalmi (Neofiti)Bereshit 22:8-10Shemot 12:42About Targum Yerushalmi (Neofiti), Bavli SanhedrinSanhedrin 89bAbout the Bavli, Bereshit Rabbah55:456:456:8About Bereshit Rabbah, TanchumaVayera 23About the Tanchuma, Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer31About Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer, Lekach TovBereshit 22:1Bereshit 22:6-8About R. Toviah b. Eliezer, R. Yosef Bekhor ShorBereshit 22:8About R. Yosef Bekhor Shor, RadakBereshit 22:8-9Bereshit 22:19About R. David Kimchi, R. S.R. HirschBereshit 22:3, 7-9About R. Samson Raphael Hirsch, Hoil MosheBereshit 22:5About R. Moshe Yitzchak Ashkenazi

How old was Yitzchak at the akeidah?

Did he know what was to happen?

Yitzchak's question: "וְאַיֵּה הַשֶּׂה לְעֹלָה"

"אֱלֹהִים יִרְאֶה לּוֹ הַשֶּׂה לְעֹלָה בְּנִי"

"וְנָשׁוּבָה אֲלֵיכֶם"

"וַיֵּלְכוּ שְׁנֵיהֶם יַחְדָּו"

Why was it necessary to bind Yitzchak?

"וַיָּשׇׁב אַבְרָהָם אֶל נְעָרָיו"

"וְהָאֱלֹהִים נִסָּה אֶת אַבְרָהָם"

Motivations

Unwilling, Unaware Victim

Sources:Ibn EzraBereshit First Commentary 22:6-8Bereshit First Commentary 22:19About R. Avraham ibn Ezra, R. Avraham b. HaRambamBereshit 22:1Bereshit 22:8About R. Avraham Maimonides, Abarbanel, Shadal

Ambivalent