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Fwd: VBM PARSHA 81: Parashat Vayera Divar Torahs for Shabbos Project


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Date: Tue, Nov 3, 2020, 2:26 AM
Subject: VBM PARSHA 81: Parashat Vayera
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YESHIVAT HAR ETZION

ISRAEL KOSCHITZKY VIRTUAL BEIT MIDRASH (VBM)

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PARASHAT HASHAVUA


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In memory of Rabbi Jack Sable z"l and

Ambassador Yehuda Avner z"l

By Debbi and David Sable

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Dedicated in memory of Elyakim ben Michael z"l

whose yahrtzeit is 19 Cheshvan

By Family Rueff

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In memory of Rav Michael Bloom - "Mike"
on his first yahrzeit. יהי זכרו ברוך

Akiva and Shanen Werber and family

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PARASHAT VAYERA

 

Akeidat Yitzchak – Punishment or Test?

 

By Rav Yoel Bin-Nun

 

 

The Rashbam deviates from all of the accepted interpretations of the Akeida. This may have been in opposition to the idealization of the Akeida at a time when persecution of Jews and of Judaism was rampant and when the authors of the piyyutim tended to interpret the Akeida as if, God forbid, it had actually taken place. This position of the paytanim was in sharp contrast to what is stated in the gemara (Ta'anit 4a) about the verse in Yirmeyahu (19:5): "To burn their sons in the fire for burnt-offerings to Ba'al; which I commanded not, nor spoke it" – "This is Yitzchak the son of Avraham."

 

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