[Avodah] Why avraham did not receive the torah

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R Folger, in response to my post that there exist piyutim for Shavuot
going through why previous generations did not receive the Torah, and
that some piyutim say that Avraham did not because he did not challenge
Hashem over the akeda, responded:

As rav of a community that stil says piyutim, he said that the type of
piyut I cited - but does not say what I said existed, but that Avraham's
fault wa bamah edah

I don't think he read the original post. There, I said that there
was this type of piyut - but there many different piyutim, some said
by different minhagim, others available in manuscript. The version he
cites has the more common explanation for avraham. However, there are
piyutim, including one by Elazar Hakallir and by Yosef Tov Elem that
have the version I described about the akeda. I suggest looking at the
Goldscmidt Frankel edition of the machzor for Shavuot, where he brings
different piyutim said by different communities, and at the introduction.

Meir Shinnar
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