RELS 201 Quiz: 201. Tutorial Ass 1

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELS 201
• Professor: Eliezer Segal

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Using the techniques used in class on september 26, 2013, read through the following passage and write a short essay (500 words or 2 pages double-spaced). This essay is due: tuesday october 1 at the start of class. A child of seven was reading in school the chapter which tells of the sacrifice of. Isaac was on the way to mount moriah with his father; then he lay on the altar, bound, waiting to be sacrificed. My heart began to beat even faster; it actually sobbed with pity for isaac. And now my heart froze within me with fright. And i said to him, still weeping, (cid:498)but, rabbi, supposing the angel had come a second too late? (cid:499) The rabbi comforted me and calmed me by telling me that an angel cannot come late. An angel cannot be late, but man, made of flesh and blood, may be. I asked for wonder: a spiritual anthology (ed.