
James Goodman - Finding your Inner Abraham: Ep. 4
Good Faith Effort
What I Love So Much About the Binding of Isaac
In many ways, the story itself is a test to us. Each of us was tested by Abraham and isaac. So it's my way of showing the fluidity of tradition. I mean, you can't imagine how little when i started this, the way that the rabbis celebrate tradition by re shaping it When they feel it needs to be reshaped. Instead of getting rid of an old version of a story when there was a new way of thinking things, they left several of them right in there for readers to have to grapple with. In lots of the story sarah was tested, but every time you open that book to chapter 22, we are all tested as readers,
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