Jewish Learning

Galilee Diary: Jewish identity/Israeli identity

Rabbi Marc J. Rosenstein

Take your son," - "Which son?"
"Your only son," - "Each is the only son of his mother."
"The one you love," - "I love them both."
"Isaac."
-Midrash Genesis Rabbah 39, on Genesis 22:2

The other day I observed a Bible class in the regional high school at Kibbutz