Portion of the Week; Haye Sarah 46-1, Rabbi Wengrovsky

well a day's all although only eighteen days our sharia days all portion of the week revival as read in the synagogue with the running commentary this evening we hear rabbi leon been crossed the spiritual leader of the orthodox congregation of the big and the ruling alliance beacon new york this week we

read in the synagogue the seed the law it a saw the light up sarah after having read that at the end of last week's seabaugh the birth and the early years of isaac and the episode of the arc a dog the binding of isaac we proceed in this week see the last iaea saw with the mention of the death of isaacs mother sarah we begin in this week's e the law in genesis chapter twenty three and this week see the top concerns itself when three topics where's the passing away off sarah abrahams arrangements for her burial secondly the choice of a white suitable for isaac and lastly as a sort of a postscript to these major topics a brief mention of the other descendants of abraham

and the passing away on abraham the very first two verses yield the typical examples are the diversity of biblical commentary which we recall during the reading of the weekly torah portion that saturday morning services and that in our own review during the week we begin with a nurse one ob genesis chapter twenty three i use it a cell and was the light bulbs may all shown are a hundred years the us and ensure law and twenty years the show mash on name and seven years she made high ace all the years of the light up sarah one biblical commentator for example the large bomb whose point of view is that our shop direct interpretation straightforward says for

example the age of other women in the bible is not given special attention is drawn to sierra's that in order to connect it with the purchase of the cave art market a lot and since her death has mentioned their age also is recorded most biblical commentators see in this summer's a special teaching about the very character of sarah since the tall wrought took pains to re iterate that term new year one hundred years twenty years and seven years and began should make it a saw the years of the light up sara for example most commentators quoting the needle our job well we'll say sarah was as soon wests at a hundred as at twenty or until the age of twenty seven is not punishable by courts of man and therefore did not count

and she was as beautiful at twenty as at seven or in another version of this mad rush explain when she was as a handsome at one hundred as at the age of twenty and as sin worse at twenty as at seven it rather humorous comments from the mid or shabaab all on this verse and on the number of years and sarah's light the militia kabul says the black chemo was once sitting and its founding before a group and perhaps like in our congregations the day the congregation was imposing a little bit and lobby upheaval wanted to wake them up so he went off on the following packed and they said why did queen esther see fit to rule over one hundred and twenty seven provinces well the reason is like esther

com who is eight the sentence off sarah who lived one hundred and twenty seven years and let the rule over one hundred and twenty seven countries from this arab medical non sequitur let's proceed in a more serious vein to the second verse of this week's civil but hamas saw and sarah dying because the us out live in the city called helios out by event alone which is known as hebron the edits can know i'm in the land of canaan by yoko ogawa home and abraham came loose oh it was so long to mourn for sarah lillian cosell and the two week for higher the first part of this verse the very mention of the death of sarah is associated directly by the me blush when the last episode narrated in the

previous see the law the actually though the binding of isaac namely that was the news of this shocking event which led to the death of the mother of isaac another very favorite mad russia cleaned connects the death of syria would be mentioned of the birth of rebeck girl lorimer says earlier at the very end almost all the previous weekly portion for him a queasy asked these and the first chapter near the beginning there is a phrase is this auto show mash or more harsh image and the sun shall shine forth and the sun shall come shall set and this is interpreted to mean that before god causes the shining sun of one side the two sects before one righteous person leaves this world god causes to rise up and

shined the sun the bright light on another saudi who will take his place perhaps this is parallel to the english saying the king is that the long live the king at any rate the middle or she applies this clean too many sequences in which one sage of the time of the nation an apology sucks even another and here to sarah love passes away from the earthly same only when we've got had been born to take our place as a mother in israel off the next generation the last three words of this second verse we spoke was awfully close off to more and for sara and to weep or higher campaign to this think the reactions on the b reed the mild beer and puts it this way but

the weeping normally comes before has made the morning are evaluating ones lost as the cars all the stages of the palm would have said get william him little tv of hurricane west play three days are devoted to week being in the usual sense of expressing our grief and the time is right for a pass play but this isn't the usual case of a person passes away that first they're well up within the mourners a feeling of weeping over the immediate loss and the denial of the existence of a loved one and then there comes as spade an evaluation but in the case of sarah has made plain words this was the main thing for a good deeds for a wholesome as we're so characteristic and so well known that the eulogy chambers and then this led to me being over the grapes

might just woman that had passed from the scene the very last words of this verse of the live kosovo is spelled in the save for paul roth in the handwritten paul rust scroll with a small call a small let her in the middle of the word and whenever one of the letters is written by tradition either larger or smaller than usual there is usually a certain meaning more specific teaching at hatched of this variation in this case let me mention one rather simple and direct explanation that is mentioned that's a or having lived a full life having died betty wright old age there was a hard case last week being them would be usual and hence the word believe cosa and to weep for hire has this smaller letter we continue in the biblical

text with verses three and four by your gum of a home and abraham rose up the aisle and they may so from before his bed by the bale than a face alaimo and he spoke to the children all face the headlights so say gail over social on healthy enough them a stranger and they sojourner am it with you to newly given to me ask was asked there in la femme a procession of a burial place with you the ecb all may see me live on the way that i may bury my dad out of my sight or more directly from the for me rabbi hurt simulate rabbi of the british empire in his published comments on the whole law says as follows this is the first reference in the text of the bible

to burial and the reverential concern which the patriarch shows to give honorable simple car to his bed has been a distinguishing feature among his the sentence mace meets follow the care and the burial of the body of a friendless man takes precedence over all other commandment it's very old is the jewish men to our disposal of the deceased passage thus the roman historian remarked upon the fact that the jews buried their dead ends that are burning them from nation has always been repugnant to jewish feeling and is in total variance with the law and custom of israel to this comment of the late rabbi hurts me i had that in the town would for example the verses of this very chapter of the bible are used

as supportive texts for many of the laws of burial and mourning for example the very basic concept of the consecration of a distinct and separate jewish burial place is obvious from this passage for example the rule that one who is preoccupied with the care of the seas is free of certain obligations such as the reciting of the show my the daily prayer is the feelin and so on the fact that the mourners saints and sleeps on our close to the ground is evidence from the phrase buy your come up on an abraham a rose in order to arrange for burial the idea of a eulogy as giving honor to the deceased is evidence from the biblical phrase here and so on including other laws the following verses the dialogue and the

transaction which follow abrahams requests to establish an ancestral burial ground verses five to eighteen which we shall be reading please god on the morrow our permeated with the courtesy and the flowery wang wei knew that we still think long as typically oriental you are listening to a portion of the week the bible as read in the synagogue with preventing commentary there's even new word rabbi leon been crossed the spiritual leader of the orthodox congregation of the bacon hebrew alliance they can be on the counter for a portion of the week is eliza combine the congregation beth shalom of kings bay brooklyn yeah it varies all this is

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