Abraham, following a test from The Most High, takes his son, Isaac, to the mountain to sacrifice him. This was common practice in the ancient religious traditions, where children were burned to death as sacrifices to gods. Sarah, who is not present hears that Abraham is about to kill her son, Isaac. She gives out 6 large cries, that have been referred to as loud as blasts from the Shofar. These cries cause her to leave her body, and she becomes an angel, and flies to the mountain where Isaac is bound and ready to be killed. She tells Abraham that he does not have to sacrifice Isaac. That a Ram can be substituted, and shows him a Ram caught in the brambles just a few feet away. Abraham listens to her voice, as he listened to her when she told him to take Hagar and make a child, as when the Most High told Hagar to listen to Sarah about Ishmael. Yet, the huge effort of leaving her body in this way severed her Soul's connection to her physical life, and she dies. And this is Sarah's sacrifice for Isaac, and thus the society was moved away from child sacrifice, and thus the Jewish Nation was continued, through Isaac to Moses, and unto today. And, as the Most High Knows all, Abraham and Sarah's test was a complete success.

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