B"H
Cheshvan 22, 5766 * November 24, 2005
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TORAH PORTION: Chayei Sarah (Genesis 23:1-25:18)
Torah Reading for Week of November 20-26, 2005
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Sarah dies at age 127 and is buried in the Machpeilah Cave in Hebron, which Abraham purchases from Ephron the Hittite for 400 shekels of silver.
Abraham's servant, Eliezer, is sent laden with gifts to Charan to find a wife for Isaac. At the village well, Eliezer asks G-d for a sign: when the maidens come to the well, he will ask for some water to drink; the woman who will offer to give his camels to drink as well, shall be the one destined for his master's son.
Rebecca, the daughter of Abraham's nephew Bethuel, appears at the well and passes the "test". Eliezer is invited to their home, where he repeats the story of the day's events. Rebecca returns with Eliezer to the land of Canaan, where they encounter Isaac praying in the field. Isaac marries Rebecca, loves her, and is comforted over the loss of his mother.
Abraham takes a new wife, Keturah (Hagar) and fathers six additional sons, but Isaac is designated as his only heir. Abraham dies at age 175 and is buried beside Sarah by his two eldest sons, Isaac and Ishmael.
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FROM THE WORDS OF OUR SAGES ON THE PARSHAH:
--And the life of Sarah was one hundred years, twenty years and seven years (Genesis 23:1)
At the age of twenty she was like age seven in beauty, and at the age of one hundred she was like age twenty in piety. (Rashi; Midrash Rabbah)
--I am a stranger and a resident amongst you (Genesis 23:4)
The Jew is a "resident" in the world, for the Torah instructs him not escape the physical reality but to inhabit it and elevate it. At the same time, the Jew feels himself a "stranger" in the material world. His true home is a higher, loftier place -- the world of spirit, the world of holiness and G-dliness from which his soul has been exiled and to which it yearns to return.
Indeed, it is only because the Jew feels himself a stranger in the world that he can avoid being wholly consumed and overwhelmed by it, and maintain the spiritual vision and integrity required to elevate it and sanctify it as a "dwelling for G-d." (The Lubavitcher Rebbe)
--Isaac went out to meditate in the field… and behold, camels were coming (Genesis 24:63)
Sometimes a person must go to his soulmate, and sometimes his soulmate comes to him. In the case of Isaac, his wife came to him, as it is written, "And he saw, and, behold, there were camels coming." Jacob, however, went to his wife as it is written, "And Jacob went out of Be'er Sheva…" (Genesis 28:10). (Midrash HaGadol)
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