[Avodah] Yitzchak Allowed?? (Akeida)

[Yitzhak Grossman]

On Tue, 5 May 2009 14:11:56 -0700 (PDT)
harveybenton at yahoo.com wrote:

>  How/Why/Was
> Yitzchak Avinu allowed to sacrifice (or potentially sacrifice) his own
> life on the word of his Father?  Is this/was this allowed??? [Yitzchak
> did not, as far as we know, receive a direct tzivui from Hashem to give up his
> life.] 
> 
> If we perhaps hold that Shaliach K'Moitu, and that Avraham was an authentic Shaliach of Hashem, (on this and other? matters?) which would therefore perhaps obligate Yitzchak, would/should Yitzchak have required definitive proof from Avraham's as to the authenticity of his Shlichus??? 
> 
> [And of course, if Avraham was not considered a direct/authoritative Shaliach, vis a vis this paticular (Akeida) matter, then why would Yitzchak have been allowed to listen to him??]

Resp. Hasam Sofer (OH 208 and Pituhei Hosam (introduction to YD))
argues that it is precisely this Emunas Hachamim of Yitzhak that is his
great merit in the affair, and the reason that we refer to it as
"Akeidas Yitzhak", as opposed to emphasizing Avraham's role.

Yitzhak
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