Friday, November 28, 2008
Nothing To Do With Animals
It's nothing to do with animals, but here is an essay that I wrote recently which is related to this week's Torah portion - specifically, Yitzchak telling his wife Rivkah to pretend to be his sister. This was a strategy that we saw Avraham use twice, but how is it morally acceptable to engineer such a deceit for personal gain with no regard for the wife's fate? Read this essay for an answer (Microsoft Word document).
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6 comments:
Didn't you once write a book on this? :-)
It's clearly a departure from that book. I don't think that old book of chareidi apologetics quoted "Shadal" anywhere...
Doesn't the fact that Avraham hid Sara in a box in order to enter Mizrayim indicate that he wasn't so absolutely convinced that his strategy would work. If that's the case, the question remains. Also, why did he try the strategy again with Avimelech when he knew it didn't work with Pharaoh?
I dont see why this article is that interesting, or scholarly on a Slifkin-esque level. In what was is this any more than writing over a Ramban, and Radak, with just a drop of explanation.
It's a bit silly in my opinion - much like "Lying for Truth," of "Focus" - two books which im sure you have not seen!
I told you already. It's novel because he now quotes Cassuto and "Shadal".
How do you imbed a link to a Word document on the blog?
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