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  "description": "The quotes cited here are taken from this post: Isaac's Death and Resurrection.\n\nIt shows the deep theological significance of Abraham’s willingness to slaughter Isaac had on rabbinic tradition. All emphasis will be mine.\n\nתענית ט״ז א:ו׳\n\nולמה נותנין אפר בראש כל אחד ואחד פליגי בה ר' לוי בר חמא ור' חנינא חד אמר הרי אנו חשובין לפניך כאפר וחד אמר כדי שיזכור לנו אפרו של יצחק \n\nTaanit 16a:6\n\nAnd why do they place ashes upon the head of each and every individual? Rabbi Levi bar Ḥama and Rabbi Ḥanina d",
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    "Isaac's Death and Resurrection",
    "תענית ט״ז א:ו׳",
    "Taanit 16a:6",
    "פרקי דרבי אליעזר ל״א:י׳",
    "Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer 31:10",
    "https://itun.es/us/UyNDdb.l",
    "Isaac's Death & Resurrection",
    "Isaac’s Binding & Third Day Resurrection",
    "Judaism on the Atoning Death of the Righteous"
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  "textContent": "The quotes cited here are taken from this post: Isaac's Death and Resurrection.\n\nIt shows the deep theological significance of Abraham’s willingness to slaughter Isaac had on rabbinic tradition. All emphasis will be mine.\n\nתענית ט״ז א:ו׳\n\nולמה נותנין אפר בראש כל אחד ואחד פליגי בה ר' לוי בר חמא ור' חנינא חד אמר הרי אנו חשובין לפניך כאפר וחד אמר כדי שיזכור לנו אפרו של יצחק\n\nTaanit 16a:6\n\nAnd why do they place ashes upon the head of each and every individual? Rabbi Levi bar Ḥama and Rabbi Ḥanina disagree with regard to this matter. One said that this is as though to say: We are considered like ashes before You. And one said that these ashes are placed **in order to remind God of the ashes of our forefather Isaac, on our behalf**.\n\nפרקי דרבי אליעזר ל״א:י׳\n\n(א) ר' יהודה אומ' כיון שהגיע החרב על צוארו פרחה ויצאה נפשו של יצחק וכיון שהשמיע קולו מבין הכרובים ואמ' לו אל תשלח ידך נפשו חזרה לגופו וקם ועמד יצחק על רגליו וידע יצחק שכך המתים עתידים להחיות ופתח ואמ' ברוך אתה ה' מחיה המתים.\n\nPirkei DeRabbi Eliezer 31:10\n\nR. Yehuda says: Since the knife came upon [Isaac's] neck, __Isaac's soul burst out and departed__. And since God projected His voice from between the Cherubs and said to [Abraham], \"Do not raise your hand\" (12), [Isaac's] soul returned to his body. Isaac rose up and stood on his feet, __and Isaac knew thus that in the future the dead will be revived__. He opened his mouth and said, \"Praised are You, Adonai, __who revives the dead__.\"\n\nFrom Shalom Spiegel, _The Last Trial_ , p. 64 (iBooks edition): MhG on 22:19. And so, too, the poet Benjamin bar Samuel of Coutances speaks **of Isaac spending three years in Paradise, in a Kerobah for the Feast of Shabuot, “Longer than the earth, wider than the sea**.” Sec L. Zunz, Literaturgeschichte der synagogalen Poesie (Berlin, 1865), p. 291 [hereafter abbr. Literaturgeschichte], The Kerobah has disappeared and was not copied from the Turin Mahzor. cf. I. Davidson, Seder Hibbur Berakot, JQR. XXI (1931), 252.\n\nNow when Isaac, lying on tops of the altar, heard the angel say, “Put not forth thy hand,” he exclaimed: “ __Blessed is He who quickens the dead__.” **Sefer ha-Eshkol, by R. Abraham of Narbonne, ed. S. and H. Albeck, I, p. 27. From: Shalom Spiegel. “The Last Trial.” iBooks.** https://itun.es/us/UyNDdb.l\n\nמדרש הגדול בר׳ כב: יט\n\nוישב אברהם אל נעריו. ויצחק היכן הוא? אלא אמר ר׳ אלעזר בן פדת אע״פ שלא מת יצחק מעלה עליו הכתוב כאלו מת ואפרו מוטל על גבי המזבח. לכך נאמר ״וישב אברהם אל נעריו.״\n\nד״א וישב אברהם. ויצחק היכן הוא? אלא שהכניסו הקב״ה לגן עדן וישב שם בה שלוש שנים.\n\n**Midrash HaGadol Gen. 22:19**\n\n**And Abraham returned to the youths.** And where was Isaac? R. Eleazar ben Pedat said even though Isaac did not die, __the text regards it as if he died and his ashes were sprinkled over the altar__.\n\n**Another interpretation:** And Abraham returned... And where was Isaac? The Holy One brought him into the Garden of Eden and he dwelt there three years.\n\n**Further Reading**\n\nIsaac's Death & Resurrection\n\nIsaac’s Binding & Third Day Resurrection\n\nJudaism on the Atoning Death of the Righteous",
  "title": "Isaac: Abraham’s Resurrected Son",
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