[Avodah] In this week's parsha in the parsha of the akaida AA says "venashuva alaiche

Zev Sero zev at sero.name
Tue Nov 15 10:52:57 PST 2011


On 15/11/2011 12:41 PM, T613K at aol.com wrote:
> That is correct, niba velo yada ma niba, but what did he /think/ he was saying?  He said "nashuva aleichem" but with the intention of coming back alone.
> Maybe he thought he would come back carrying Yitzchak's bones or ashes for burial?  Or maybe "nashuva" was the royal we?  Or maybe he was thinking of a far distant future?

The simple pshat is that he didn't want to let them know what he planned
to do.  If he had said "I will return" they would immediately guess what
was going on, and would stop him.  IOW he was lying, just as Yaacov did
to Esav in the other story you cited.

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