{"id":37553,"date":"2018-08-12T15:30:15","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T12:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=37553"},"modified":"2022-03-06T17:44:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T15:44:26","slug":"did-they-walk-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/did-they-walk-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Did They Walk Together?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[418,381,387],"acf":{"old_id":"37553","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":37561,"related_cahpter":"22","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"With one word, we are taught to pay attention to the burdens others carry","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This narrative, though one of the most well-known in the Torah, is perplexing at best to the modern reader. Abraham hears God\u2019s message that he must sacrifice his beloved son Isaac and agrees with blind faith. When they reach the designated mountain, the Torah tells us that Abraham tells his servants to wait while he \u201ctook the wood for the offering and put it on his son Isaac, then took in his hand the fire and the knife, and the two walked off together\u201d (v. 6). Why would the Torah tell us that Abraham and Isaac walked together? Physically, Isaac had a more arduous journey, and would have slowed down Abraham&#8217;s pace due to the burden of the wood. Most traditional commentators, following Rashi, conclude that the addition of the extraneous word \u201ctogether\u201d indicates that they both walked with joy\u2014Isaac because he did not know what was to come, Abraham because he was about to fulfill God\u2019s command.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But perhaps the opposite is true\u2014the Torah specifically indicates that Abraham and Isaac walked together because they both walked slowly, encumbered by a heavy burden. Isaac labored with the wood, and Abraham carrying the heavy emotional load of the certain death of his beloved son. With this one extra word, the Torah teaches us to pay attention to the burdens others carry\u2014the weight on their shoulders that causes them to shuffle and drag their feet\u2014even if we cannot see them. Abraham may have willingly obeyed God\u2019s command, but he went to fulfill it just like his son, slowly making his way up the mountain, painfully aware of the weight on his shoulders.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":37593,"id":37593,"title":"Akedah2-Rembrandt-Netherlands-PRE","filename":"Akedah2-Rembrandt-Netherlands-PRE.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Akedah2-Rembrandt-Netherlands-PRE.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-akeidah-in-art-4-studies\/akedah2-rembrandt-netherlands-pre\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"akedah2-rembrandt-netherlands-pre","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":37584,"date":"2018-08-12 12:54:22","modified":"2022-03-06 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