Why Abraham Really Offered Isaac on the Altar of Sacrifice - Kabbalah Secrets

the The Binding of which has extreme spiritual significance you know we it's there to be read daily and you know we reading obviously the story of the great accomplishment of Abraham and Y both were involved in this great challenge because remember Yak was 37 years old not a small child as you know perhaps secular ideology would presented as but he was 37 years old he was an adult and he also sacrificed himself to be a sacrifice I mean to be a Corbin he gave his he was willing to give his life as well so Yak was accomplishing a lot in his own right in the Challenge from his perspective and Abraham of course you know being able to give over his son was a tremendous accomplishment considered to be one of the greatest the greatest test perhaps that he was challenged the rabbis tell us that AB was in fact tested 10 times this being the last and most difficult of the tests according to most so in his will ability to to fulfill the will of God in doing this was a tremendous accomplishment for example um we we know that for in order to hear prophecy one has to be in a the right State of Mind one has to be one can't be depressed or angry because then he would block the channel of Prophecy so one could argue and say perhaps we can understand just what level of of Abraham's you know willingness and and Readiness to do the will of Hashem when he was in the middle of this process about to kill sacrifice his son so Hashem spoke to him through prophecy now had he have done this act perhaps we could say had he have done this act but had he been upset about it and depressed about this having to do this so he would have perhaps not been able to even receive the prophecy from God telling him to stop so we can assume based on the principles of Prophecy that he had to have been doing it the same way that he did anything else to serve Hashem he was able to overcome his entire inner being and all of his feelings and emotions not to mention Abraham specifically we call a man ofed a man of kindness because his spiritual nature corresponded to the to the attribute of kindness so he had to subdue that natural spiritual inclination of his to be only kind to do such an act of sacrificing a child which was required strength and might and he had to you know awaken within him these midot as well these attributes as well so the challenge that he accomplished was great great challenge now besides the Practical story that we can appreciate and learn and take as a lesson to ourselves in order to arouse ourselves to serving Hashem properly and is certainly one of the reasons we read this in the morning spiritually there's another dimension to the story and why and to why it's here it's taught that of course as we mentioned Abraham corresponds to and corresponds to so in in essence they really represent two opposites is giving it's kindness It's Revelation it's the foundation of creation as we've said God's whole purpose of creation is just for to do do kindness gor which means severity strictness or judgment all of these are these are different functions of gor is the opposite that's where the concept of concealment comes in also judgment punishment it's the opposite of of so a and represent so to speak two opposites on the Spectrum they're two opposite uh expressions of uh of emotion of of Hashem so to speak because remember they corresponded to this the attributes of the Divine attributes above we say that they corresponded to the and G spiritually as well so The Binding of Isaac in this context really takes on a whole new meaning it it really means that the idea of the attribute of above binding the attribute of gor what is the purpose of that and why is it so necessary and what are the positive benefits so gor in into onto itself can be harsh can we we not necessarily can handle the full intensity of G so what we say is that and this is learned out from the Z the Z actually brings this on the verse that mentions the birth of of yak it says that yak is the you know the son of Abraham and Abraham gave birth to yak and this rep repetition over there is seemingly not necessary so the Z on this point stresses why it was important to say that yit was in fact the son of actually I think the verse says that AB gave birth to and Y was the son of ab that would be the correct order to say it and Z asks why do we have to go back and say that is was the son of Abraham so they want to express there that that even though Yak which represents gor and is the opposite attribute of Abraham still the fact that AB gave birth to y means that is in the end a result of it's It's a outcoming of the now they explain there that what it's the point is that to to let us know that even though is it he was affected by coming through Abraham in that had a had a effect on the gor that the gor came out softened or in the language of cabala sweetened in that the gor wasn't harsh gor wasn't harsh punishment and retribution but rather the pure attribute of withdrawal of of of holding back for the sake of positive things and it's in fact through the medida of that the world is sustained in in in in the best way possible so gor when it when it's when it's affected by in the right way and when it's a result of like we see that came from from Abraham then we're not talking about a harsh uh punishing gor which is too much for the world to Bear but rather we're talking about the world in its perfect state of balance and uh and ultimately without gor the world could not be sustained the way it is too much would be destructive we the gamar and the rabbis tell us this in the concept of rain rain is source of all life it's clearly an expression of of of God's Life Giving life-giving ability which is yet the sages coin the phrase they call Rain the the the might of the rain the and they they bring the term gor which is you know severity and they apply to the term rain we have to ask why would you take something that is clearly the source of all life and connected with gor it should be connected with so they explain that because just the pure of God if that would be the manner in which he gave us rain it would be too much it would be destructive it would be the could be at the wrong times and certainly if it was without limit then the rain itself could be dangerous not only destructive and that the crops would be ruined but could also be dangerous we see in the world when there's too much of this power to give water that people die unfortunately so God gives the rain through the mechanism of gor to limit it to control it and ultimately we understand all things that God gives have to be controlled otherwise we would not be able to endure this the intensity of this giving power so without gor we can't even have and this is the deeper meaning behind mind that Isaac I'm sorry Abraham GES gave birth to in that the gor that we need to experience is coming through Abraham and this brings us to our point that the The Binding of Isaac essentially really represents this concept that we spoke out at length that we need the attribute of Abraham the said to be the overpowering or dominant function within with with how gor in the end will play itself out in in the way that we experience it in the world that's essentially the deeper meaning behind this whole story and this becomes now a story of hashem's attributes the way that hashem's right hand gives but the left hand pushes away when we have the perfect harmony between God's right and left we have a world that can be sustained properly and this is the at the end that's towards the end of the morning prayer of the first section when we say so this is what we're trying to awaken and this is what we're trying to to fix that the that the gor should be tempered