“I could conceive of another Abraham — to be sure, he would never get to be a patriarch or even an old-clothes dealer —  an Abraham who would be prepared to satisfy the demand for a sacrifice immediately, with the promptness of a waiter, but would be unable to bring it off because he cannot get away, being indispensable; the household needs him, there is always something or other to take care of, the house is never ready; but without having his house ready, without having something to fall back on, he cannot leave — this the Bible also realized, for it says: ‘He set his house in order.'”