{"id":37566,"date":"2018-08-12T15:32:57","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T12:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=37566"},"modified":"2022-03-06T17:16:33","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T15:16:33","slug":"why-did-god-say-offer-him-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/why-did-god-say-offer-him-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Did God Say: \u201cOffer Him Up\u201d?"},"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":[473,428,354],"acf":{"old_id":"37566","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33923,"related_cahpter":"22","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"A non-negotiable principle of Jewish law is that children are not the property of their parents","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The principle to which the entire story of Isaac, from birth to binding, is opposed is the idea that a child is the property of the father. First, Isaac\u2019s birth is miraculous. Sarah is already post-menopausal when she conceives. In this respect the Isaac story is parallel to that of the birth of Samuel to Hannah, like Sarah, also unable naturally to conceive. That is why, when he is born Hannah says, \u201cI prayed for this child, and the Lord has granted me what I asked of him. \u00a0So now I give him to the Lord. For his whole life he will be given over to the Lord.\u201d The test was not whether Abraham would sacrifice his son but whether he would give him over to God.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">God wanted to establish as a non-negotiable principle of Jewish law that children are not the property of their parents, because as long as parents believed they owned their children, the concept of the individual could not yet be born. Why then did God say to Abraham about Isaac: \u201cOffer him up as a burnt offering\u201d? So as to make clear to all future generations that the reason Jews condemn child sacrifice is not because they lack the courage to do so. Abraham is the proof that they do not lack the courage. The reason they do not do so is because God is the God of life, not death. In Judaism, as the laws of purity and the rite of the Red Heifer show, death is not sacred. Death defiles. <\/span><\/p>\n","image":false,"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"Why Did God Say: \u201cOffer Him Up\u201d?","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"A non-negotiable principle of Jewish law is that children are not the property of their parents","preview_embedded":"","preview_image":false,"preview_video":"","external_link":"","link_for_pay":false,"tile_gallery_items":false,"credits":""},"alternate_tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"","hide_media":false},"tile_group":{"preview_image_url":false,"main_caption":"","sub_caption":"","":null,"popup_package_extra_content":"","read_time":""},"home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo":{"seo_title":"","seo_description":"","seo_default_title":"","seo_default_description":""},"old_create_date":"","links":false,"send_noty":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37566"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102690,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37566\/revisions\/102690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}