Questions for discussion

  1. Why do you think Sarah is absent from this story?
  2. Why do you think Sarah’s death immediately follows the Binding of Isaac in the Torah’s chronology?
  3. Do you think Sarah knew about this episode? If so, what do you imagine her thinking and feeling during the story?

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Questions for discussion." (Viewed on November 23, 2024) <https://jwa.org/node/22469>.