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God’s commandment to Avraham to sacrifice his son, Yitzchak, and Avraham’s ready compliance, is an extremely troubling chapter. The questions are obvious: how could God make this strange, immoral demand, and how and why did Avraham agree to go through with it so quickly, with no argument or discussion?
