The tears of the angels fell upon the knife, so that it could not cut Isaac's throat, but from terror his soul escaped from him. Parshas Vayera from The Project Genesis Torah Study. Articles from the Jewish Community of Atlanta's The Torah From Dixie , Parshat Vayeira . According to tradition, the Binding of Isaac was the tenth and last of Abraham's trials. The temptation in preaching this story will be to dwell on the emotional aspects of the passage and neglect the deeper questions that the story itself raises.
People cry out in their times of pain and feelings of hopelessness.
He is the sole legitimate determiner of man's decisions. If man acts upon G-d's command, this is right. A Living Conversation . A set of Illustrating Quotations about Abraham, Sarah and Isaac at Quotelopedia . Reviewed by Herbert W. Basser in SBL's Review of Biblical Literature .