<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-size:large">In Avodah V43n73, RAMiller asked, "<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)">What was miraculous about that ram?</span>"  On a Mi Yodeya page (URL: </span><font color="#000000"><a href="https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/48734/what-was-the-significance-of-the-ram-by-the-akeida">https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/48734/what-was-the-significance-of-the-ram-by-the-akeida</a></font><font size="4" style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">), I noticed a few answers:</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font size="4" style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">-1- </font></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 15px 16.5px;padding:0.8em 0.8em 0.8em 1em;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Georgia,Cambria,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;quotes:none;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(59,64,69);background-color:rgb(255,252,248)"><ol start="3" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-position:initial;box-sizing:inherit"><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit">The special nature of this ram was exemplified by, possibly, making it to the list of items created at twilight, in the fifth chapter of Avos. ... I was wondering in general, what was so special about this ram and its slaughtering that it needed to be prepared at that point in time?</li></ol></blockquote><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Georgia,Cambria,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;clear:both;color:rgb(12,13,14);background-color:rgb(255,252,248)">The Maharal (beginning of his piece on this Mishnah) quotes a Rambam who writes that Hashem "made a condition" with nature that, at certain points in time to be decided later, it should be altered for a neis to occur. Thus, he interprets the Mishnah as saying that Hashem made a condition with the land that in the days of Korach it should swallow his camp, and that shortly after Krias Yam Suf, when the Bnei Yisrael would need water, Hashem made a condition with the rock that it should give forth water, etc. Likewise, Hashem made a condition with this ram that it should be there in the zechus of Avraham Avinu, who would otherwise have been suffering from not being able to fulfill Hashem's will.</p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Georgia,Cambria,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;clear:both;color:rgb(12,13,14);background-color:rgb(255,252,248)">Now, this entire p'shat still begs the obvious question: as the Midrash (same source) attests to, Hashem's will was never that Yitzchak should be shechted, but that he should be placed on the Mizbeiach. Thus, why did Avraham need anything to take the place of Yitzchak? To that I do not have an answer, but I still believe that this p'shat is firmly rooted in a Midrash that clearly answers all of your questions.</p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font size="4" style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">-2- </font><span style="background-color:rgb(255,252,248);color:rgb(12,13,14);font-family:Georgia,Cambria,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:15px">this ram is now recognizable as a great asset to the glorification of Hashem's name. No less than a talking donkey's mouth or the earth's mouth that swallowed the rebelious people in the desert. Being planned for during twilight of the sixth day of creation seems appropriate.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font size="4" style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">-3- </font><span style="font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:1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