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pleasures of this world behind us before we can properly do Hashem’s
will.
Reading about the Akeidah on Rosh Hashanah puts many ‘things’ into
perspective and reminds us about the important “things” of life. Hashem
takes a close look at mankind’s race towards materialism and their
preoccupation with all sorts of ‘things.’ By doing mitzvot with mesirut
nefesh we justify the continued existence of the world.
“And it happened after these things that
Hashem tested Avraham and He said to him,
‘Avraham, ’ and he said, ‘Here I am.’ And he
said, ‘Please take your son, your only one,
whom you love – Yitzchak – go to the land of
Moriah, and bring him up there as an offering
on one of the mountains which I shall tell you’”
(Bereishit 22:1-2)
