The Anti-Hero - We examine how אברהם אבינו becomes a paradigm yet appears to be an "anti-hero", and only understand this in *restating the interrelationship between גרות and מצוה and in such finding a completely different source of courage in ובא חבקוק והעמידן על אחת and in a vision of ישראל לדורות who are מה יפו פעמיך because of their vision of לך לך! We find that from Avraham to David, all paradigmatic figures in Torah are not heroes, but antiheroes. Their courage lies not in their willingness to stand up for their intellectual achievements, but in their willingness to remain engaged in a heuristic process that necessarily entails failure. This is the essence of geirut (itself a function of halichah) in which one must leave behind one’s reshut – the area delimited by biological evolution, societal norms, and one’s own personal fantasies – in search of self-discovery. Just as other species experience the urge to migrate, so do we experience the urge to move as part of what it means “to be.”

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