{"id":1795,"date":"2018-09-09T09:26:19","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T13:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/?p=1795"},"modified":"2019-09-24T21:29:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T01:29:37","slug":"testing-abraham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/2018\/09\/testing-abraham\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing Abraham: Justice in Sodom Before Loyalty in the Akedah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Reuven Kimelman discusses the significance of the Torah&#8217;s juxtaposing the story of Sodom with the story of the binding of Isaac <a href=\"https:\/\/thetorah.com\/justice-in-sodom-before-loyalty-in-the-akedah\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in this article on TheTorah.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are three major ways of framing the reading of\u00a0<em>Parshat<\/em>\u00a0<em>Vayera\u00a0<\/em>as a literary unit.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Isaac-centered, where the<em>\u00a0parashah<\/em>\u00a0goes from his birth to his near death experience.<\/li>\n<li>Sarah-centered, where this\u00a0<em>parashah<\/em>\u00a0opens with her giving life and the next\u00a0<em>parashah<\/em>\u00a0to her losing life.<\/li>\n<li>Abraham-centered, where the\u00a0<em>parashah<\/em>\u00a0goes from Abraham\u2019s objection to G-d over Sodom to the sacrifice of his son without objection.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Each way privileges a specific beginning and ending. This reading will focus on Abraham by asking what is gained by binding the\u00a0<em>Akeidah<\/em>\u00a0episode of Genesis 22 and the Sodom episode of Genesis 18 into one\u00a0<em>parashah<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thetorah.com\/justice-in-sodom-before-loyalty-in-the-akedah\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/thetorah.com\/justice-in-sodom-before-loyalty-in-the-akedah\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Reuven Kimelman discusses the significance of the Torah&#8217;s juxtaposing the story of Sodom with the story of the binding of Isaac in this article on TheTorah.com. There are three major ways of framing the reading of\u00a0Parshat\u00a0Vayera\u00a0as a literary unit. Isaac-centered, where the\u00a0parashah\u00a0goes from his birth to his near death experience. Sarah-centered, where this\u00a0parashah\u00a0opens with <a href=\"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/2018\/09\/testing-abraham\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":1796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,134,77],"tags":[],"coauthors":[108],"class_list":["post-1795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-holidays","category-holidays-2","category-torah-talmud"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1795"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2214,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions\/2214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1795"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}