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| + | <p>Yitzchak willingly went to be sacrificed.</p> | ||
<mekorot><multilink><a href="JosephusAntiquitiesoftheJews1-13-2-4" data-aht="source">Josephus</a><a href="JosephusAntiquitiesoftheJews1-13-2-4" data-aht="source">Antiquities of the Jews 1:13:2-4</a><a href="Josephus" data-aht="parshan">About Josephus</a></multilink>, <multilink><a href="Pseudo-Philo32-2-4" data-aht="source">Pseudo-Philo</a><a href="Pseudo-Philo32-2-4" data-aht="source">32:2-4</a><a href="Pseudo-Philo" data-aht="parshan">About Pseudo-Philo</a></multilink>, <multilink><a href="TargumYerushalmiNeofitiBereshit22-8" data-aht="source">Targum Yerushalmi (Neofiti)</a><a href="TargumYerushalmiNeofitiBereshit22-8" data-aht="source">Bereshit 22:8-10</a><a href="TargumYerushalmiNeofitiShemot12-42" data-aht="source">Shemot 12:42</a><a href="Targum Yerushalmi (Neofiti)" data-aht="parshan">About Targum Yerushalmi (Neofiti)</a></multilink>, <multilink><a href="BavliSanhedrin89b" data-aht="source">Bavli Sanhedrin</a><a href="BavliSanhedrin89b" data-aht="source">Sanhedrin 89b</a><a href="Talmud Bavli" data-aht="parshan">About the Bavli</a></multilink>, <multilink><a href="BereshitRabbah56-8" data-aht="source">Bereshit Rabbah</a><a href="BereshitRabbah55-4" data-aht="source">55:4</a><a href="BereshitRabbah56-4" data-aht="source">56:4</a><a href="BereshitRabbah56-8" data-aht="source">56:8</a><a href="Bereshit Rabbah" data-aht="parshan">About Bereshit Rabbah</a></multilink>, <multilink><a href="TanchumaVayera23" data-aht="source">Tanchuma</a><a href="TanchumaVayera23" data-aht="source">Vayera 23</a><a href="Tanchuma" data-aht="parshan">About the Tanchuma</a></multilink>, <multilink><a href="PirkeiDeRabbiEliezer31" data-aht="source">Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer</a><a href="PirkeiDeRabbiEliezer31" data-aht="source">31</a><a href="Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer" data-aht="parshan">About Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer</a></multilink>, <multilink><a href="LekachTovBereshit22-1" data-aht="source">Lekach Tov</a><a href="LekachTovBereshit22-1" data-aht="source">Bereshit 22:1</a><a href="LekachTovBereshit22-6-8" data-aht="source">Bereshit 22:6-8</a><a href="R. Toviah b. Eliezer (Lekach Tov)" data-aht="parshan">About R. Toviah b. Eliezer</a></multilink>, <multilink><a href="RYosefBekhorShorBereshit22-8" data-aht="source">R. Yosef Bekhor Shor</a><a href="RYosefBekhorShorBereshit22-8" data-aht="source">Bereshit 22:8</a><a href="R. Yosef Bekhor Shor" data-aht="parshan">About R. Yosef Bekhor Shor</a></multilink>, <multilink><a href="RadakBereshit22-8-9" data-aht="source">Radak</a><a href="RadakBereshit22-8-9" data-aht="source">Bereshit 22:8-9</a><a href="RadakBereshit22-19" data-aht="source">Bereshit 22:19</a><a href="R. David Kimchi (Radak)" data-aht="parshan">About R. David Kimchi</a></multilink>, <multilink><a href="RSRHirschBereshit22-37-9" data-aht="source">R. S.R. Hirsch</a><a href="RSRHirschBereshit22-37-9" data-aht="source">Bereshit 22:3, 7-9</a><a href="R. Samson Raphael Hirsch" data-aht="parshan">About R. Samson Raphael Hirsch</a></multilink>, <multilink><a href="HoilMosheBereshit22-5" data-aht="source">Hoil Moshe</a><a href="HoilMosheBereshit22-5" data-aht="source">Bereshit 22:5</a><a href="R. Moshe Yitzchak Ashkenazi (Hoil Moshe)" data-aht="parshan">About R. Moshe Yitzchak Ashkenazi</a></multilink></mekorot> | <mekorot><multilink><a href="JosephusAntiquitiesoftheJews1-13-2-4" data-aht="source">Josephus</a><a href="JosephusAntiquitiesoftheJews1-13-2-4" data-aht="source">Antiquities of the Jews 1:13:2-4</a><a href="Josephus" data-aht="parshan">About Josephus</a></multilink>, <multilink><a href="Pseudo-Philo32-2-4" data-aht="source">Pseudo-Philo</a><a href="Pseudo-Philo32-2-4" data-aht="source">32:2-4</a><a href="Pseudo-Philo" data-aht="parshan">About Pseudo-Philo</a></multilink>, <multilink><a href="TargumYerushalmiNeofitiBereshit22-8" data-aht="source">Targum Yerushalmi (Neofiti)</a><a href="TargumYerushalmiNeofitiBereshit22-8" data-aht="source">Bereshit 22:8-10</a><a href="TargumYerushalmiNeofitiShemot12-42" data-aht="source">Shemot 12:42</a><a href="Targum Yerushalmi (Neofiti)" data-aht="parshan">About Targum Yerushalmi (Neofiti)</a></multilink>, <multilink><a href="BavliSanhedrin89b" data-aht="source">Bavli Sanhedrin</a><a href="BavliSanhedrin89b" data-aht="source">Sanhedrin 89b</a><a href="Talmud Bavli" data-aht="parshan">About the Bavli</a></multilink>, <multilink><a href="BereshitRabbah56-8" data-aht="source">Bereshit Rabbah</a><a href="BereshitRabbah55-4" data-aht="source">55:4</a><a href="BereshitRabbah56-4" data-aht="source">56:4</a><a href="BereshitRabbah56-8" data-aht="source">56:8</a><a href="Bereshit Rabbah" data-aht="parshan">About Bereshit Rabbah</a></multilink>, <multilink><a href="TanchumaVayera23" data-aht="source">Tanchuma</a><a href="TanchumaVayera23" data-aht="source">Vayera 23</a><a href="Tanchuma" data-aht="parshan">About the Tanchuma</a></multilink>, <multilink><a href="PirkeiDeRabbiEliezer31" data-aht="source">Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer</a><a href="PirkeiDeRabbiEliezer31" data-aht="source">31</a><a href="Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer" data-aht="parshan">About Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer</a></multilink>, <multilink><a href="LekachTovBereshit22-1" data-aht="source">Lekach Tov</a><a href="LekachTovBereshit22-1" data-aht="source">Bereshit 22:1</a><a href="LekachTovBereshit22-6-8" data-aht="source">Bereshit 22:6-8</a><a href="R. Toviah b. Eliezer (Lekach Tov)" data-aht="parshan">About R. Toviah b. Eliezer</a></multilink>, <multilink><a href="RYosefBekhorShorBereshit22-8" data-aht="source">R. Yosef Bekhor Shor</a><a href="RYosefBekhorShorBereshit22-8" data-aht="source">Bereshit 22:8</a><a href="R. Yosef Bekhor Shor" data-aht="parshan">About R. Yosef Bekhor Shor</a></multilink>, <multilink><a href="RadakBereshit22-8-9" data-aht="source">Radak</a><a href="RadakBereshit22-8-9" data-aht="source">Bereshit 22:8-9</a><a href="RadakBereshit22-19" data-aht="source">Bereshit 22:19</a><a href="R. David Kimchi (Radak)" data-aht="parshan">About R. David Kimchi</a></multilink>, <multilink><a href="RSRHirschBereshit22-37-9" data-aht="source">R. S.R. Hirsch</a><a href="RSRHirschBereshit22-37-9" data-aht="source">Bereshit 22:3, 7-9</a><a href="R. Samson Raphael Hirsch" data-aht="parshan">About R. Samson Raphael Hirsch</a></multilink>, <multilink><a href="HoilMosheBereshit22-5" data-aht="source">Hoil Moshe</a><a href="HoilMosheBereshit22-5" data-aht="source">Bereshit 22:5</a><a href="R. Moshe Yitzchak Ashkenazi (Hoil Moshe)" data-aht="parshan">About R. Moshe Yitzchak Ashkenazi</a></multilink></mekorot> | ||
| − | <point><b>How old was Yitzchak at the akeidah?</b></point> | + | <point><b>How old was Yitzchak at the akeidah?</b> All of these sources assume that Yitzchak was old enough to fully comprehend what was going on, with many of them assuming that he was full grown adult. Thus, Josephus asserts that Yitzchak was 25, while Targum Yerushalmi (Neofiti) and Bereshit Rabbah place him at 37.<fn>See also <multilink><a href="SederOlamRabbah1" data-aht="source">Seder Olam Rabbah</a><a href="SederOlamRabbah1" data-aht="source">1</a><a href="Seder Olam Rabbah" data-aht="parshan">About Seder Olam Rabbah</a></multilink>. This age is reached by assuming that the juxtaposition of the story of the Akeidah and Sarah's death means that the two occurred one right after the other.  As Sarah died at the age of 127 and Yitzchak was born when she was 90, this suggests that he was 37 at the Akeidah.</fn></point> |
<point><b>Did he know what was to happen?</b></point> | <point><b>Did he know what was to happen?</b></point> | ||
<point><b>Yitzchak's question: "וְאַיֵּה הַשֶּׂה לְעֹלָה"</b></point> | <point><b>Yitzchak's question: "וְאַיֵּה הַשֶּׂה לְעֹלָה"</b></point> | ||
Version as of 03:52, 13 November 2019
Yitzchak's Role in the Akeidah
Exegetical Approaches
Willing Participant
Yitzchak willingly went to be sacrificed.
Sources:Josephus, Pseudo-Philo, Targum Yerushalmi (Neofiti), Bavli Sanhedrin, Bereshit Rabbah, Tanchuma, Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer, Lekach Tov, R. Yosef Bekhor Shor, Radak, R. S.R. Hirsch, Hoil Moshe
How old was Yitzchak at the akeidah? All of these sources assume that Yitzchak was old enough to fully comprehend what was going on, with many of them assuming that he was full grown adult. Thus, Josephus asserts that Yitzchak was 25, while Targum Yerushalmi (Neofiti) and Bereshit Rabbah place him at 37.1
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
