Play inspired by rabbi and his fake torahs misses its mark

At one point in "G-d's Honest Truth" at Theater J, a portly man in a suit but no tie delivers a sermon about Abraham's near-sacrifice of Isaac. The man is Dov, an American rabbi, and he's grappling with the darker aspects of the tale from the Jewish scriptures. He projects himself into the mind of Isaac -- imagining the shock and fear the boy must have felt, describing how the sky might have looked to the youth bound on the altar. Alone on a mostly bare stage, Dov speaks with a fervent eloquence...