Identity, Immediacy, and Duplicity - We focus on the way the second לך לך of אל ארץ המוריה is not only the השלמה of the original journey that allows אברהם to become himself but how it is qualitatively and fundamentally different and reinterprets all that happened before such that for the first time it produces דויד המלך which is why סדום is so much part of the פרשה: the integrative one point of all the three messengers – and we find that it is concentrated in the ability of אברהם to identify himself with הנני instead of אנכי! This הנני takes place on three completely different levels: the two levels to the אלקי"ם המצווה בעקידה and the other level to the מלאך השם המצווה וגם אל תעש לו מאומה which are integrated themselves in the middle as זוהר points out with הנני to יצחקa-- and it is the recognition that יראת אלקי"ם which is a function of דין is what is necessary for him to achieve here which is why everything changes in his growth into ירא* -- demands as רמב"ם points out in מורה נבוכים a concentration not on my awareness of Existence ornot the "love that I have in the ידיעת התורה" but rather in the clarity of שמירה doing what needs to be done –whichמדרש brings out so powerfully is entirely a function of being able to recognize when can take a joke and when not—and that boils down to paying attention to lies and being able to discriminate between when a lie impinges on life even when it is the truth.

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