When you die and go to heaven our maker is not going to ask, 'why didn't you discover the cure for such and such? why didn't you become the Messiah?' The only question we will be asked in that precious moment is 'why didn't you become you?'
Elie WieselAbraham is trying to obey God, but not to kill. I feel that moment is one of the defining moments of Jewish faith.
Elie Wiesel