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Early in the story, we read that Abraham was \u201cvery wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold.\u201d He had everything except one thing \u2013 a child. The first Jew feared he would be the last. Sarah gives Abraham her handmaid Hagar, hoping that she will give him a child. She gives birth to a son whose name is Ishmael, meaning \u201cGod has heard.\u201d Abraham\u2019s prayer has been answered, or so we think. Hagar and Ishmael are banished soon after. Finally, the story seems to have a happy ending. After all the promises and prayers, Abraham and Sarah at last have a child. Then comes the story which, in all the intervening centuries, have not lost their power to shock. Abraham must take his son up the mountain to give him as an offering to God. He does all he is instructed until the last moment when he hears: \u201cDo not lay a hand on the boy.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Why all the promises and disappointments? Why the hope so often raised, so often unfulfilled? Why the binding? Why put Abraham and Sarah through the agony of thinking that the son for whom they have waited for so long is about to die? There are many answers in our tradition, but one transcends all others.\u202f<\/span>W<\/span><\/i>e cherish what we wait for and what we most risk losing<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/i>\u202fLife is full of wonders. The birth of a child is a miracle. Yet, precisely because these things are natural, we take them for granted, forgetting that nature has an architect, and history an author.<\/span><\/p>\n

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