Quiz: Sacrifice of Isaac

Please answer these questions and upload the document with your answers.

1. What is the midrash shared by Rashi on Gen 22:1?
2. According to Midrash Tanhuma, “Hineni” means something specific. What does it mean?
3. Ibn Ezra offers a different spelling of “Tested” (Nisah). What does that alternative spelling offer? And what type of PARDES commentary is it?
4. According to the commentators, what are the various reasons for testing Abram?
5. Please explain Abram’s response to God, according to Rashi, in verse 22:2
6. Or Hachayim teaches that the verse “your son, your only one, the one you love, Isaac.” alludes to three levels of love that G’d demands of each Jew. What are the levels?
7. How do the commentaries come full circle when it comes to the end of the narrative when God says, “For now I know” with regard to earlier commentaries about the overall purpose of this event?