Engaging Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling, this chapter analyzes Abraham’s sacrifice as a paradigm of tragic faith. Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice Isaac suspends universal ethics, confronting us with the incomprehensible demand of God. The chapter considers how empathy, often assumed to be the highest moral virtue, breaks down in the face of this event. Empathy cannot bridge the abyss of Abraham’s singular decision; rather, tragedy lies in the impossibility of mediation. Kierkegaard’s problems—the relation between the individual and the universal, the single and the general—are reinterpreted as exposing the tragic structure of ethical life. The chapter further examines work, responsibility, and conscience as shaped by this paradox. Law, like empathy, cannot capture the radical singularity of existence; it must nevertheless respond to it. Tragedy here functions as a critique of ethical and legal universality, affirming the irreducible dimension of personal encounter, decision, and responsibility before the other.