This weeks written Dvar Torah is sponsored anonymously in the zechus that all who need a shidduch should be granted one speedily and with ease. For only 18 dollars you can sponsor a shiur, a Q&A, a Dvar Torah or an event. Your small contributions go a long way towards helping us continue to do the great work we are doing at Nitzotzos. To sponsor please email us at Nitzotzos@gmail.com Of the many amazing stories that we find in the Torah, among the most dramatic is the story of Akeidas Yitzchak. At one hundred years old Avraham was finally blessed with Yitzchak. Now, after nine tests from Hashem (see Bartneura on Avos 5:3), Avraham would face the most difficult one. God has asked Avraham to sacrifice his thirty seven year old son, Yitzchak. Ultimately, Avraham displays his willingness to sacrifice Yitzchak but in the end God calls it off at the last minute. As we consider the story, so many questions arise. Let us go passuk by passuk and go through each question. וַיְהִ֗י אַחַר֙ הַדְּבָרִ֣ים הָאֵ֔לֶּה וְהָ֣אֱלֹהִ֔ים נִסָּ֖ה אֶת־אַבְרָהָ֑ם וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלָ֔יו אַבְרָהָ֖ם וַיֹּ֥אמֶר הִנֵּֽנִי " And it came to pass after these things, that God tested Abraham, and He said to him, "Abraham," and he said, "Here I am." (Bereishis 22:1) This is the tenth test that Avraham Avinu would face. Yet in no other test does the Torah use the word נִסָּ֖ה, tested. What makes this test so unique that the Torah actually calls it a nisayon? Furthermore, is this test only for Avraham? What about Yitz
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