Why was Yishmael banished? Did he sin? Was he unworthy? The comparison of Akeidat Yitzchak to the expulsion of Yishmael reveals the way Avraham and Yitzchak cope with stressful situations, in comparison with Hagar and Yishmael. The Chosen Nation will descend from those who cope like the former, not the latter, who are expelled from the house of Avraham and rejected from the covenant with God.