We believe that a plurality of voices can be brought together to explore the vast canon of Jewish literature. If you like what you see here, The Akedah Project is just the beginning. Why does God ask Abraham to bind his son as an. So, this year, we invited some of the most prominent scholars, teachers, thinkers, activists, and artists to investigate and present the story in their own way.īelow you will find more than 30 videos, each offering coming to the Akedah from a different angle. The Binding of Isaac (in Hebrew, the Akeidah) is one of the most difficult stories in the entire Bible. And the latest DLC does bring the whole thing to a close. Many of us will not attend synagogue in person this year due to the worldwide pandemic, and we are all looking for help making sense of our world in these challenging times. The Binding of Isaac games has always focused on the story of Isaac, and his fight for survival as he tries to escape the horrors of the dungeons underneath his bedroom. Traditionally, the Akedah is chanted in synagogue on the second day of Rosh Hashanah. The game's title and plot are inspired by the Biblical story of the Binding of Isaac. It was released in 2011 for Microsoft Windows, then ported to OS X, and Linux. The Binding of Isaac is loosely based on the aforementioned bible story of Abraham. The Binding of Isaac is a roguelike video game designed by independent developers Edmund McMillen and Florian Himsl. With the numerous variants of enemies and power-ups, no run is the same and over time it proves to be an extremely lasting experience. Scholars, rabbis, artists, teachers, poets, and readers have tried to make sense of this story for millennia, which has given us a range of lenses through which we can read it, even as we bring the new questions, ideas, and perspectives that come with every new generation of readers. Binding of Isaac melds all of the elements of a great arcade shooter and a roguelike and does it almost perfectly. The Akedah Project explores the story of the Binding of Isaac (“ akedah” means “binding” in Hebrew), which is one of the most confounding narratives in the Bible.