In the synagogue on Rosh Hashanah, it is traditional to recite the Akedah, the story in Genesis 22 of Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his only son, Isaac.
God told Abraham, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you” (v. 2). “Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife” (v. 6).
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