As we approach this week’s story about Abraham’s immediate compliance with God’s command that he provide his son as a burnt offering, we would do well to contemplate a large group of Jews who, in their own minds at least, are following God’s commands in a way that seems to us so dangerous as to be irrational.
Much ink has been spilled over the last several months by Jews proclaiming their inability to understand the haredi response to COVID-19 restrictions imposed in the United States and Israel. That failure to understand is a failure on our part (and by “our,” I include myself, the Modern Orthodox community in which I live, and anybody else who isn’t a haredi Jew.)
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