After the binding of Isaac, כִּי עַתָּה יָדַעְתִּי כִּי־יְרֵא אֱלֹהִים אַתָּה - “now I know that you fear God?” What does this passage really mean?
The verse would seem to imply that God did not know whether Abraham feared God. But, now as a result of the Akedah, God’s personal knowledge has been expanded.[1] But such a limited view of omniscience was something many rabbis found theologically scandalous, for how can a human being grasp the nature of God’s ...
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