The first occurrence of the word "love" in the Scriptures (אהבה, ahavah, Gen. 22:2) refers to Abraham's love for his "only" son Isaac who was to be offered as a sacrifice... Indeed the offering of Isaac was a prophetic picture of the sacrifice of Yeshua as the "Lamb of God" who takes away the sins of the world (John 1:29). For instance, both Isaac and Yeshua were born miraculously; both were "only begotten sons"; both were to be sacrificed by their fathers at Mount Moriah; both experienced a "passion"; both were to be resurrected on the third day (Gen. 22:5, Heb. 11:17-19); both willingly took up the means of his execution; and both demonstrate that one life can be sacrificed for another - the ram for Isaac, and Yeshua for all of mankind. We break the middle matzah during the Yachatz step of the seder to recall the broken body of Yeshua at the cross, and we later eat the Afikomen in faith of his resurrected life...
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