Chayei Sarah 5786

[music] of the name of the para is the life of sor and yet what's the second sora died it's strange or peculiar that the para that speaks about Kayora the the is really about her death. Now uh I don't think that um uh I don't think anyone would contemplate making the name of the para misasur. We don't do that. But nevertheless it's it is strange that the para is so the medai comments on a tells tells us knows the days of The answer to the question is that this part is not about the death of Sorah only. It's about the life of Sora, but that life of Sora that continues on that is felt at Hay Maz in spite of the fact that she died, but nevertheless her descendants of which we are her descendants. We live on she's the matriarch emo. And that's what the matter says. The message says on this knows the life of the perfect people and their legacy. So the reason it's called cayor is because this is about the life of Sora. It's a matter of fact that she actually died in this part BK but but she didn't live die and leave nothing behind. In fact, she left a great legacy behind her and that is the banit of you know there is a a famous inim called with a person's death he won't take everything. He can't take it. The the the t of this is you can't take it with you. As we all know, you can be the most wealthiest man in the world, you know, the the Forbes 400. uh you can be uh you know Jeff Bezos or or Elon Musk or Bill Gates these are the billionaires of the world you can't take it with him that is the standard interpretation of that but I once heard in the name of Abramsky A different twist on that. When a person dies, he will not take everything with him. He'll leave it here. His legacy, his accomplishments, his mitzvah, his children, his grandchildren, they'll remain. So don't think a person dies lost and gone forever. He's still around. It's not that you go ahead and you die in there never to be hurt again. No, his covenant will still remain in this world because of the legacy that you left over. In fact, I once heard of the name. We know that when we go to B, we wish the person is which is one of the names of the should that's the standard. Now many of the forum go on why in this we give to why use the name out of all the names why couldn't we say hashem why couldn't we say elim why couldn't we say shakai why couldn't we say other names of hashem why h so said an interesting thing ham is not referring to the It's referring the place that you left on this world that your parent just died. Somebody just died. He's not gone. He left something in this world. He left over a mukum. Whether it's children or grandchildren, great children grandchildren or whether it's mitzvah, whether it's accomplishments, whatever it is that the mim the place that you created in this world, that's going to be the for the for the fact that you lost this this person, you know, and I know I realize I'm taping this uh in the week of parasyak um as all you all know that this is the the all para project of the U, the Orthodox Union. Um, by the time you'll be hearing this, this will be somewhat faded into the background. But it's within this week that uh that Clai lost a very very important person that is Rabbi Mosha Hower who was the executive vice president of the Orthodox Union. Um I think it's only right since this is the Orthodox Union pro project al para that we should say something about Rabbi Hower. The truth of the matter is I did not know him as Rabbi Hower. I knew him as Mishihau. He came to the yeshiva as a young ber and he sat in front of me by dening and we developed a relationship. you know, I'm several years older than he and you know, he looked up to me as a you know, one of the rai never learned in my sheer per se, but we had a big shyus and uh he was the type of person as a ber you're going to he said to this guy's going to go places. He's so talented and he was he was a tomahawk and he was a balidas and he was a wonderful person cared about cla cared about people. He was successful in everything that he touched. Started out in a small little shul in Baltimore called Benet Jacob and for that he went ahead and expanded and merged with a much larger sh called Shar Zion. But the shu became ben Jacob Shahi Zin because of the influence of Rabbi Hower and he touched hundreds if not thousands of people in that in that uh in his in his rabinet. But then he went on for to go on to a bigger stage a stage that he can affect more more people and he became the executive vice president of the OU and he was terrific at that job. So this is a type of person where the mo that he left over his children, his grandchildren, his learning, his mitzvah, what he did for people, that is all going to stay here. And that mo which he created should be in the for his wife, Mrs. Mihau, and for his children and his grandchildren should be in the See >> right now.