[Avodah] (Neviim & Possible Mistakes); Akeidah & Yizchak

[David Riceman]

> Me:
>>  Rashi's narrative continues: Avraham says "but you told me to do this".
>>  God replies "No, I told you only to put him on the altar, not to slaughter
>> him".
>>     
>> Your claim is that Avraham fully understood his first nevuah; and the part
>> he didn't understand had no pitaron (no precise meaning).  How, then, could
>> God have replied as he did? Surely God should have said, no, that initial
>> nevuah was just a mashal without a pitaron, and it didn't have any meaning.
>>  Instead God ascribed it meaning ("I never told you to slaughter him").
>>     
> RYZ:
> The part that he needed to do he understood fully, HKB"H had a Kavana (which
> we don't find and therefore cannot put in by other Nvi'im) that he should
> think MORE then was meant, as he would stop him anyway.  Torah reveals us
> this.
>
>   
I think this is the kernel of our argument in this case.  He understood that God wanted him to slaughter Yitzhak.  I claim that that is an example of misunderstanding a nevuah.  You claim, on the contrary, that it doesn't misunderstand the nevuah but is extraneous to the nevuah.  See H. AZ 5:8, which does not require implementing an extraneous bit to be guilty.

David Riceman