<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">The sages
envision a day when God will come to judge the Jewish people for their sins,
and Yitzchok will rise to defend them. Why Yitzchok?</span></font><span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> </span></font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> </span></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> </span></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Because he will be entitled to say to God, “I had a wicked
child and I loved him. Can You not do the same?” (BT Shab.89a).</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">In some way this mentality can be compared to how Avraham pleaded for the evil people of Sodom; but in this case it's much more powerful, since Yitzchok is not pleading for strangers. He's pleading for his flesh and blood. Also, Yitzchok was willing to be sacrificed for God, so now he hopes that God will return the favor.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">rw</span></font></p>
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