[Avodah] G-d changes his mind

[Meir Shinnar]

RET
> He goes so far as to say that Abraham was wrong for not arguing with G-d
> at the Akedah.
> His sources are Alan Dershowitz and Shulamit Aloni !!
>
RMB
> That is definitely krum.  In each case where someone argues with
> Hashem, Rashi goes out of his way to point out that Hashem had no
> obvious reason to inform them of His plans in the first place, so
> they took it as permission and an invitation to argue.  In the case
> of the akeda this obviously doesn't apply; Avraham received, not
> information but a direct order, and when someone gets an order from
> Hashem he has no right to argue.   After obeying he may perhaps ask
> for an explanation, but not before.

There are better sources than Shulamit Aloni..

In classical ashkenaz, There is a type of piyut for shavuot that goes
through why the torah was not given before moshe - with a fault for
each major prior figure why he couldn't receive the torah.
For Avraham, most piyutim (including one by Hakallir) take his
statement bama eda ki irashena  as the fault (based on a midrash).
However, there are several piyutim, including another one by Hakallir
and one by Yosef Tov Elem (neither minor sources..), that say the
fault was that he did not argue with hashem when commanded over the
akeda.  (R Yona Frankel, in his edition of the machzor for shavuot,
comments that he knows of no extant midrashic source for this idea -
but, as it is hakallir, it must reflect some midrashic tradition.)


Meir Shinnar