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Did Abraham do good in preparing to slaughter his son? Did he do right? Some ancient Jewish texts are not sure. The great 6<\/span>th<\/span>-century poet El\u2018azar be-Rabbi Qillir writes in a liturgical poem:<\/span><\/p>\n

[Abraham] forgot how a father is supposed to have mercy on a son \/ <\/span>
\n<\/span>a prayer or plea he should have offered.<\/span><\/p>\n

Other ancient poets went further in their criticism:<\/span><\/p>\n

He stretched out his arm like a cruel person, to murder.<\/span><\/p>\n

He should have beseeched You, to ask for mercy \/ <\/span>
\n<\/span>to spare his only child from a fire of coal.<\/span><\/p>\n

These poems manage to express bewilderment, and even anger at the human father who would slaughter his son, without calling into question the religious value of such a sacrifice.<\/span><\/p>\n

A similar note is struck by Nicole Krauss in her 2017 novel <\/span>Forest Dark<\/span><\/em>:<\/span><\/p>\n

The very first Jewish child was bound and nearly sacrificed for something more important than him, and ever since Abraham came down from Mount Moriah, a terrible father but a good Jew the question of how to go on binding has hung in the air. \u2026 We bind and are bound because the binding binds us to those who were bound before us, and those bound before them, and those before them, in a chain of ropes and knots that goes back three thousand years, which is how long we’ve been dreaming of cutting ourselves loose, of falling out of this world, and into another world where we aren’t stunned and deformed to fit the past, but left to grow wild, toward the future.<\/span><\/p>\n

A terrible father but a good Jew. Can we make our peace with that?<\/span><\/p>\n

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