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What Is a Test? (Part 3 of 7)

Child Sacrifice in the Torah?!

The story of Akedat Yitzchak starts out by telling us that God tested Abraham. Why does the omnipotent God need to put Abraham through such a painful test if He already knows that Abraham will pass?

In Part III of this series Rabbi Fohrman continues his discussion on the nature of morality and what it means to believe in God, while answering one of the most important questions of the Akedah: What does it mean for God to test Abraham?

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