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Question
What are the different opinions on what the 10 tests of Avraham were?
Answer
Rambam:
1. Conversion.
2. famine
3. Sarah taken by Pharaoh
4. The war against the 4 kings
5. marring Haggar
6. Brit Milah
7. Sarah taken by Avimelech
8. Expelling Haggar
9. expelling Yishmael
10. the Akeidah
Rabenu Tam
Like the Rambam just combines 8 and 8 into one and adds the burial of Sarah as number 10
Rabenu Yonah
Like Rabenu Tam just replacing the marriage of Haggar with the Ur Casdim fire furnace incident.
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