Why did Abraham to Isaac akedat took two naaru?

This is the so-called "sacrifice" of Isaac (in Hebrew - "akedat Isaac").

This event describes the history of the Jewish Torah in Genesis (more on akedat Yitzhak - see our website, for example, in the review of Sidra Weyer, the fourth annual cycle of discussion.).

The phrase you are interested in (.. Of Genesis, Chapter 22, Article 3) in the translation goes something like this: "And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass and took with him two men, and Isaac his son ...".

The Oral Torah says that "two people" - this is the most faithful servant of Abraham, Eliezer, and the eldest son of Abraham by Hagar, Ishmael. In the original Torah to refer to these two accompanying Abraham used the word - "naaru," which can be translated in different ways. Sometimes the word means - "boy", "young man". But here we are talking about Abraham's servant Eliezer, who at that time was over 100 years old and Ishmael about - at the age of approximately 50 years. Therefore, a translation of the word, which is found in almost all editions of the Torah with a parallel text in Russian, in the considered fragment of the Torah all the same - not relevant. And at its core - just wrong.

More precisely, in this context, the word "naaru" should be translated as - "curiosity" or, say, "agog".

So why Abraham had brought these two men?

One of the reasons was that Abraham was to show them that, firstly, a Jew can become only passing certain spiritual process, due to the laws of the Torah (Yishmael and Eliezer giyur did not pass). Second - that a certain proximity to the Jew, whether biological or any other, even to such as Abraham, by itself - does not make one a Jew.

As a result, they (and therefore - and all), it became clear that only Isaac - Abraham the true spiritual heir and successor of the traditions, the observance of which in the future will be the basis for determining the concept of the "Jewish people".

Eliyahu Eliyahu Essas