Who or what is God? And, therefore, who can tell the why or wherefore
Of the very first encounter of a mortal man with God?
Yet the story is essential, and its outcome reverential,
Else the world is existential and there is no place for God.
Is the world devoid of meaning? Would the outcome be demeaning
If there were no place for God?

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Let me leave aside this question and pursue my self’s suggestion
That we do not, at this epoch, know the meaning of God’s name.
In the Torah it is hidden, and to speak it is forbidden,
But the scholars, though unbidden, went and parsed the holy name.
And that name is just I AM, THAT I AM. That is God’s name,
And will always be God’s name.

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But my purpose in these verses, for the better or the worse, is
To examine just one story in the life of Abraham:
How God tested him severely with the son that he loved dearly,
With a test that seems to clearly show the faith of Abraham,
And the strictness and the mercy of the God of Abraham,
From God’s Calling to the Ram!

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