The meaning of this story has been debated for many centuries. A ram caught in a nearby thicket serves as the offering rather than Isaac. Abraham does as he is told, and is about to kill his own son when an angel of God stops him. In the story, God commands Abraham to take his beloved son, bind him, and make of him a burnt offering on one of the mountains in the land of Moriah. This workshop presents what is for religious liberals one of the most mysterious and disturbing stories in the Hebrew scriptures.
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