Moriah? What is Moriah? … Where is Moriah? Is it just a geographic dot on a map and nothing more? Why Moriah and not any other place? If we comb the legends of the antiquity of Israel we find that Moriah has a familiar ring to its name. We first hear of it as the place where both Cain and Abel, Adam’s sons, offered their sacrifices to God. Some generations later, Moriah is the scene of Noah’s thanksgiving offering after alighting from the Ark. In a much later period we read that Moriah was the mountain upon which Solomon erected the Bet Hamikdash , the Sanctuary. And it was on this same Moriah that Abraham must offer up his son, Isaac. What common bond connects all of these historical events? What is the central theme in Moriah ? In the Talmud Rabbi Levi ben Hama defines Mount Moriah as, Har she-yatza mimennu hora-a le-yisrael , “the mountain from which emanated teachings to Israel.” The ...
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