This past week during minyan we have been studying Rashi’s commentary on the Akedah. As Abraham is about to lift the knife with which he intends to slaughter Isaac on God’s command, an angel of the Lord calls, Al Tishlach yadkha el hanaar – Literally do not send forth your hand against the child. But can be read colloquially as “Don’t touch the boy”. I don’t know if there was ever a case where the Torah was referencing the headlines from the news more accurately then this: Don’t touch the boy was a message that should have been sounded in College Station, in South Bend and in too many communities in the United States. When I first heard on sports talk radio about the events at Penn State University I was a bit cynical. The hosts of these shows spend their days attacking the reputations of sports figures based on…