Something strange happens at the end of the Akeidah. The Torah says Abraham returns to his young men — but does not mention Isaac returning with him. In Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on Genesis 22:19, the Aramaic paraphrase answers the gap with one of its most memorable insertions: the angels on high took Izhak and brought him into the school of Shem the Great; and he was there three years.
Isaac, the Targum claims, spent three years studying in the medresha — the house of study — of Shem, the righteous son of Noah. The older midrashic tradition (Bereshit Rabbah 56:11, compiled in the Land of Israel c. 300–500 CE) preserves the same detail: after the binding, Isaac needed spiritual recovery and ascended to the yeshiva of Shem and Eber, the great pre-Abrahamic monotheists.
This is the Targum's quiet answer to a painful question. What happens to a person who has been that close to the knife? You do not send them back to ordinary life immediately. You send them to the house of Torah. You let them study for three years until the sound of the horns and the angels and the knife becomes silent.
The Maggidim read this verse as the Torah's unwritten pastoral counsel. The takeaway: after a trauma, do not return straight to the tent. Find a beit midrash. Find a teacher older than your father. Study for as many years as it takes.