Chasidut su Genesi 22:4

Abraham had waited one hundred years for the birth of Isaac, the son who was suitable for the continuation of Abraham’s mission. When the Almighty asked for the sacrifice of Isaac, He was requesting that Abraham take all of his dreams and hopes and sacrifice them joyously for God. Abraham was not to merely give up his most beloved son; he was to perform this task with ecstatic joy, devotion, and a sense of connection to the Divine.²⁴⁹God never told Abraham where to offer Isaac. Abraham, as a result, had to be in a state of mind that would allow for prophecy in order to hear from God where to bind his son. A prophet must be overwhelmed with ecstatic joy in order to commune with the Divine. Since Abraham had to be ready for proph-ecy, God was demanding from him ecstatic joy. See further Shem Mi-Shmuel, Mo’adim pg. 13. Abraham fulfilled the challenge. Despite losing all sense of spiritual inspiration,²⁵⁰It is written, Va-yar es ha-makom me-rachok, “He saw the place from afar” (Gen. 22:4). The Zohar explains that ha-makom is really a reference to God. Abraham saw God from a distance because he lost all sense of inspired spirituality. Abraham reached to his depths and performed the binding of Isaac with joy. As a result yechidah entered him fully.²⁵¹Shem Mi-Shmuel, Mo’adim, pg. 13. In Abraham, yechidah was an or penimi (inner light) and not merely an or makkif (a transcendent light). Our patriarch bequeathed this level of soul to all of his descendants—the Jewish people.