[1] No, this isn't an explanation of that, this is an ObSF. Note
>that in the book of Genesis, Abraham repeatedly argues with God.
>I don't know whether Jewish law enjoins this on his descendants,
>but Jewish folklore does with unremitting zeal. There is, for
>example, the story of the rabbi who stormed Heaven. There is the
>Golem of Prague. There are any number of stories about Abraham
>himself showing him doing this or that, explicitly portrayed as
>basically trying to sneak around what God had told him.
There's also the Berdichever Kaddish, AKA Rabbi Levi Yitzhak's lawsuit against God:
The book you need for the first two paragraphs of this footnote
>is by Nathan Ausubel.
Hey, great book! Also his Treasury of Jewish Humor.