{"id":70362,"date":"2020-02-18T16:33:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T14:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=70362"},"modified":"2023-09-14T14:22:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T11:22:22","slug":"child-sacrifice-never-crossed-gods-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/child-sacrifice-never-crossed-gods-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Child Sacrifice? 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Jeremiah was instructed to inveigh against the cult of child sacrifice that was situated on a site called Tophet in the Valley of Ben-hinnom (6) in proximity to the Temple. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They have built shrines to Baal, to put their children to the fire as burnt offerings to Baal\u2014which I never commanded, never decreed, and which never came to My mind (5).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Talmud assigned each of the three \u201cnever\u201d clauses to a specific instance featuring a child sacrifice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c\u2018<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I never commanded<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019\u2014refers to the son of Mesha, King of Moab, of whom it states: \u2018He took his eldest son who would have succeeded him and raised him as a pyre offering.\u2019 \u2018<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I never decreed<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019\u2014refers to Jephthah [who \u201csacrificed\u201d his daughter]. \u2018<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It never came to my mind<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019\u2014 refers to Isaac son of Abraham\u201d (Ta&#8217;anit 4a).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">God, then, took equal exception to Mesha\u2019s actual sacrifice of his son (2 Kings 3), Jephthah\u2019s treatment of his daughter (Judges 11, see <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/page\/222\/post\/55743\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">our comments there<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), and Abraham\u2019s preparation to slay Isaac (the Akedah). But was God not the one who instructed Abraham: \u201cTake \u2026 Isaac and take him up there for an <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">olah<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on a mountain I will indicate to you\u201d (Genesis 22:2)?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This talmudic passage offers the enticing (albeit disturbing) possibility that our customary reading of the Akedah is erroneous. Indeed, Ralbag (Gersonides, Genesis 22:1), read that same instruction as \u201cbring him up there to make an offering, in order that Isaac should be educated in the Lord\u2019s service,\u201d and suggested that it was Abraham who misinterpreted it, perhaps when the sacrificial lamb he expected to find (22:8) failed to appear. Thus, God stayed his hand and Abraham slaughtered the ram that was the intended sacrifice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Image: Rembrandt van Rijn, \u201cThe Sacrifice of Isaac,\u201d 1635, The Hermitage \/ wikimedia<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":37590,"id":37590,"title":"Akedah1-Rembrandt-Hermitage","filename":"Akedah1-Rembrandt-Hermitage.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Akedah1-Rembrandt-Hermitage.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-akeidah-in-art-4-studies\/akedah1-rembrandt-hermitage\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"akedah1-rembrandt-hermitage","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":37584,"date":"2018-08-12 12:51:15","modified":"2020-12-06 13:10:58","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2471,"height":3633,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Akedah1-Rembrandt-Hermitage-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Akedah1-Rembrandt-Hermitage-204x300.jpg","medium-width":204,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Akedah1-Rembrandt-Hermitage-696x1024.jpg","medium_large-width":696,"medium_large-height":1024,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Akedah1-Rembrandt-Hermitage-696x1024.jpg","large-width":696,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Akedah1-Rembrandt-Hermitage.jpg","1536x1536-width":1045,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Akedah1-Rembrandt-Hermitage.jpg","2048x2048-width":1393,"2048x2048-height":2048,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Akedah1-Rembrandt-Hermitage-816x1200.jpg","post_full_size-width":816,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Akedah1-Rembrandt-Hermitage-286x420.jpg","home_baner-width":286,"home_baner-height":420}},"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"Child Sacrifice? 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