Ari Goldwag - Chayei Sarah - Death and Rebirth

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari Gold Wegg recorded with a gems never-ending assistance in room a pajama she's real 5777 2016 this week's Marcia's partial Kyocera and we start off the partial speaking about the life of Sarah the passing of sorry you may know our matriarch and the verse tells us chapter 23 verse 1 by you hi Sarah may Hashanah the estimation of a chevron him the life of Sarah was 127 years snake hey Sarah these were the years of the life of Sarah the verse goes on to tell us how Sarah passed on and describes the whole scene as our movie knows Abraham mourn for her and went through the process of purchasing the Cave of Machpelah and Heffron in order to bury her there now the mattress gives us a very unusual connection between 127 years of the life of Sarah and somebody else and in somebody who you met actually in last week's parsha and we saw that there was a connection a very deep connection important connection between Sarah and Esther her Malka the Queen Esther I'd like to explore that more like don't try to understand better exactly what is this connection what is the idea behind it and what can we learn from it the measure says like a story Kiva Hayashi of adesh Vicki was sitting and he was saying add Raja he was saying a speech witness Namrata meet him and the students were listening to his speech they were dozing they fell asleep in the middle of his speech and we had another measure a similar measure which speaks about this kind of similar idea so the rabbi saying the draw she is saying his speech and everyone's falling asleep so what does he do Bala IRA your sign you wanted to wake him up so he said something unusual that would surprise them that would wake them up what was it on my arm as dr. Esther Lim lakish evident Medina what was it that gave the merit to Esther I maka Queen Esther that she should be able to rule she should be the Queen over 127 provinces Alacoque America - Burcu God said as follows how is their beat Daschle Sarah let Esther who was the great great granddaughter of Sarah our matriarch chicoy sous-chef even ramayana she lived to be 27 years old the timoshev the sno-med Medina and let her great-granddaughter Esther rule over a hundred and twenty seven the same number 127 provinces and the obvious question here is what is the matter she tried to tell us so rib Akiva was saying this as a joke or he was saying this in order to say something surprising in order to awaken them but when rebbi akiva says this teaching obviously there's a deeper meaning to the teaching there's a deep connection between sorry I'm a no and Esther we previously spoke about the fact that there was a connection and we said that there was a point of redemption when Esther was coming in to become the Queen so the Jewish people were being redeemed and we said that also when when the gates hook was born in last week's parsha so there was a point of redemption for the Jewish people there was a new spiritual thing that was coming into the world but here the problem is that we're talking about 127 years of the life of Sarah that means that this is the end of her life it's not really a point of new spirituality for certain you may know it's a point of her passing as a point of the end of her life so how he to understand the connection between Sarah may know insofar as her 127 years of a life at the end of her life and Esther Amaka Queen Esther who became the Queen and thereby became the one who would represent the gula the redemption of the Jewish people what is the connection between these two parshas these two concepts now the HCO safe in a safe or inácio safe in his explanation in the in the same measure she appears both in our parsha and the meddra shin in esther and so the 8co safe explains he brings an explanation to understand the connection between sarah's 127 years and Esther's 127 provinces what is the concept what is the connection why because of Sarah how does Esther had this merit what is the deeper teaching of a Madras so it brings another measure this measure is back in partially flaca in regards to the verse that says that abraham left Avram been Shiva Muhammad shown him he was 75 years when he left and he headed on his journey towards the Land of Israel hadou deceive so we find that there is another person Avram Aveeno is somebody who represents guru lo he represents a new stage in a spiritual realm of the Jewish people but there's someone else and this is again his connection between Abram and Sarah and Esther and mauka she also has someone represented gula the measure says something fantastic by you I'm Anna's Hadassah yes sir the verse refers to a star Malka to Queen Esther with another name her name is also Hadassah now the message tells us that there's a three-way argument as to how old she was when she became the queen of a feverish raaah farmer Ron says bass memo says she was 40 years old when it happened small armor Shmuel says bash Windham Shawna she was actually 80 years old when she was taken to become the queen Robin and I'm rebus she's in the Kamisha our sages say that she was 75 years old and where does this number 75 come from notice that Avram Avena was also 75 when he left from Corinth to go to the Land of Israel so Robert liebe shame upon him the Taman Omar with breath you said the name of the rabbits of time on America's issue Boko Haram God said to Abraham I tell you it's us and he makes a veto been chicken karmesan him you left your house at the age of 75 I gotcha I've got Shannon madam call I promise you that in the future there's going to be a redeemer as a reference to Esther I'm who's gonna come from you is gonna be a great grandchild of yours yeah bench even Commission I'm communion Hadassah she's going to be 75 years old just like you are and you take the gamma tree the new numerical value of the name of Hadassah the numerical value comes out to 74 and in geometry is for a reason that we have discussed I'm not gonna get into right now you can always add another one for the value of the word itself because the word is has a cola which is the all-inclusive aspect so 74 plus one in 75 so her name was Hadassah representing the fact that she was 75 years old when she became the queen of our cherished when she opened the door for the ghoul of the Jewish people for there to be a redemption for the Jewish people now when we hear this message we say how could this possibly be how could it be that Akasha barish married as the as the Megillah describes this most beautiful woman she was more beautiful than any of the other women in the entire kingdom she was 75 years old so that enough Yosef says an amazing shot which is very difficult to understand we need to understand the depth of the teaching of the novios if what he's trying to teach us what the depth of it is but he says that Esther homonka at the age of 75 experienced something similar to what Sarah in Maine who experienced at the age of 90 just like in last week's parsha we saw that Sarah at the age of 90 became young again and she was able to conceive and have a child and she was able to nurse that child and and to the point where before she even gives birth to that child she's stolen because she's so beautiful king of email off' tries to take her to be his wife she's 90 years old we see that she went back to a state of youth she went back to that to that young state so to estará Malka you know she was 75 and she had gotten old she went back to a state of youth and she became beautiful again as she had been in her younger years the result of this was that she was taken to the palace and she became the queen of Ahava Roche says that now feels safe that's the meaning of the measure Schwerin says that Sarah I may know who lived 427 years she was connected to Esther and Esther was Zoe merited to become the Queen over 127 provinces why because both of them experienced a parallel miracle Sarah became youthful again and s2 became youthful again and as we hear this fantastic metric we we have to understand that the question it just begs to be asked why is it what's the metric teaching us when it tells us that these two great women in becoming old and becoming useful again were the vehicles for an amazing miracle in the birth of clientele and also in the gula of Chloe's role in the redemption of Claude Israel and again I want to reiterate the question that we asked before which is that here we're speaking about her death we're speaking about the end of her life 127 years she lived and yet we seem to be connecting it to Sarah becoming young again and as to becoming young again what is the idea here what is the depth of this teaching of our hazael so before we answer these questions I want to share with you two more important points that have to do with the death of sorry you may know or may Oh Sarah that are connected to the previous parsha at the very end of last week's parsha we had the story of the Ikeda by the description of the events of Avram Aveeno being commanded by God to bring his son Isaac as a Corbin as a sacrifice he binds Isaac and then Hashem says no I don't want you to do it I want you to stop and then after that so they returned but in between that parsha and our Pasha there's a little footnote so to speak which speaks of the birth of Rebecca of rifka you may know so we have that and then we have our Pasha which speaks to the death of sorry Menem and what is the connection so our Fazal tell us as they just say that it was a result of the fact that Surya main who saw she was given a vision of the fact that Abraham was tying up Yitzhak he was going to sacrifice him because Sarah had the vision of what was going on she passed on from the world now there's a small problem with this connection as I saw brought down and the problem is that the story of the birth of rifka is right in between usually weird Irish smoking they have two different parishes two different ideas or concepts that are right next to each other in the Torah so you can explain there's a connection but there's a problem because there's something in between the story of that Cade of the binding and the story of the death of Sarah in Manor and that is the birth of rifka so what is being taught here what is the concept here the Rabi no bhai gives an awesome understanding to what's going on what's the connection between that kada the bertha rifka and the death of Sarah II may know and the answer is that there are two important points here one is that by the factor through the self-sacrifice of Avram a hook that they were ready youths hook was ready to give up his life Abraham was willing to give up the life of his son who he knew is meant to be the progenitor of the Jewish people that self-sacrifice made it possible for a rifka to be born for Rebecca who would be the mother of the Jewish people henceforth she was brought into existence because of that self-sacrifice now what happens on the other end what's the connection between Rivka's birth and and the death of Sarah I may know SAR hasn't Allison sages say there's a concept of Azura Hashem Esch Baha Shemesh which means that the Sun shines and Sun rises and the Sun sets has I'll teach us that this means that the depth of the of the teaching of the verses that there is no such thing as it's sad the qu passes from the world without someone who's going to be as great as that sadek that righteous individual who's coming to the world and been born before the death of the previous Sadiq sorry men who can't die before rifka is born and there are certain things that represent the greatness of serene manner and this I'll read you from the rabbana bhai where he quotes from our sages our Hazael painter Shaba senator from the broccoli sorry you may know our sages said about Sarah calls Manchus Sarah kms as long as Sarah was alive hi Ellen near Dalek mayor of Shama slayer of Shabbos she had a special candle that would burn from one Friday to the next Friday would last miraculously the whole week bracha musubi Issa and there would be clear blessings on the dough by a non-kosher Allah oh ho and there was a there was a cloud which represented the Shiina which represented the Divine Presence which would hover above her tent Oh Gachet Mesa pesco when she passed away it went away but as is brought down in the m'f RS here on the ravine of a high but when rifka came as our she tells us on the silken my on the verses so those things returned again there was a candle that was lasting from week to week again there was blessings on the DOE and again there was the divine presence which could be seen upon her tent so we see in a certain sense that although sorry may know passed away there was a new nature arc and her name is rifka Rebecca she was already born into the world and so one Sun was setting but another Sun was rising now here's the depth of it the depth is that just like when it came to get so Covino his self-sacrifice his willingness to give up his life although you didn't have to do it but his willingness to go there to be sacrificed for God that opened up the possibility for Rifco to be born for Rebecca to be born so it also made something was something else there was another place where there was an open that was a result of a loss and that was Sarah a man who's passing there was a setting of the Sun but the setting of the Sun the completion of her life 127 years of her life or actually opening up the possibility for there to be another great person a rifka you may know a rebecca who would indeed carry on the legacy of sorry may know of a Sarah but it's not a coincidence that it's happening right here it's happening right here because they're connected because we lost Sarah somehow whatever that means whatever the depth of it is we'll get to it soon but because we lost sorry maenam so we gained rifka you may know and rifki is really just a continuation and it's very interesting I share with you a few weeks ago the fact that there were coins that were minted in Abraham's honor and on one side was an old woman and her old man on the other side there was a buckaroo a young man and a young woman and we spoke about the fact that cording to one opinion the young man and young woman were also Abraham and Sarah but there's another opinion and that is that the young woman and the young man were Yitzhak and rifka and a court overseeing it comes out beautifully because it's really both because the years clock in a certain sense was a continuation of the mission of Avram Aveeno and sorry you may know her continuation was to rifki but what's amazing it what's really cool is that there's a parallel between the fact that Sarah Amano becomes old and then becomes young again which is represented by this young woman on the coin and the fact that sorry man who dies and she passes from the world and there's a new person who takes her place so to speak who continues her legacy and that serife qey because both of these ideas are true and parallel each other now there's a point that we spoke about and really really nice understanding and it's amazing because we find that by Sarah you may know she after she became young again she was taken again to a king to have him Elif to become his bride so to speak because she was so beautiful we find that it's also true of Esther as we spoke about because she became the queen of Akasha by Roche and amazingly we find that it's also true of rifka it's also true of Rebecca that she also is taken because of her beauty too the queen of Alamelu and what is the idea here what is the depth of the fact that the tour is telling us teaching us this idea about these three great women and this I believe comes to the core of the depth of the idea what we're trying to say here and that is that when think about it Esther on maca she's a great Sudeikis kurta hazael she was married to Mordecai she was in HSC she was the wife of the good lad or the greatest man of the generation and she has taken to become the queen of a harsh Mirage she loses her Jewish identity she loses all that she also holds dear it's forbidden for a Jewish woman to marry a non Jew and yet that which seems like death that which seems like the end that which seems like the end for example of Sarah aminos life that which seems like the end of Esther spiritual life somehow a Shem uses that end for a different type of beginning for a gula for the Jewish people and in a parallel way the Jewish people were standing after 70 years of go after 70 years of exile and it seemed like they had lost their their relationship with Hashem there had been a prophecy that the Jewish people would return to land of Israel after 70 years and yet 70 years had seemed to pass and it seemed like the Jewish people were forlorn they had become too old so to speak and God didn't want them anymore it seems like we passed the point of no return and yet just like s3 came young again even after she had become old and sorry man who became young again even after she had become old the Jewish people seem to have become old and been rejected by God but miraculously just as Esther was returned to her youth and Sarah man was returned to her youth and they were able to become part of a googol of the Jewish people also will return to that youthful state of relationship between themselves and God they were able to do chuva they were able to repent and come back into relationship with Hashem and become young again so we look at the death of Sarah main and we say oh it's all over she's passed on from the world but it's very interesting because when we speak about her death when we speak about the death of the righteous ones we speak about their lives speak about how long they lived we speak about the hundred and twenty seven years of her life and the reason is because the completion of their life when they come to the end of their life where they seem to have lost that relationship with life with more opportunities it's not the end it really is the beginning it's the beginning of the next generation it's the beginning of a new relationship that's going to be formed between a Yitzhak and a rifka and just like when when Sarah Maine goes back to that state of youth she becomes young again she's able to have a child she's able to be manic that child to nurse that child just like there's a renewal that occurs in her own life even in her death there's a renewal occurs as the Jewish people continue and as a new woman takes over for her rifka comes and she takes over and that tent becomes a new place or really it's a place where there's a renewal of what was happening before and it's a continuation and it's also a result of the life the great life of 127 years that Sarah a main lived and that's same hundred and twenty seven years that sacrifice that she made the life that she lived of greatness not only did it make it possible for a rifka to be born for a new Sun to rise but it also made it possible that many hundreds of years later there would be another great granddaughter of hers that would be born who it would seem that her life would be over that her spiritual life will be over but in fact it would be the beginning of a new life and she like Sarah would go from a state of being old to being young now this is something that we see in the moon the moon is that which represents the Jewish people's relationship with Hashem letitia's Elohim the first commandment the Jewish people receive as a nation is to count our calendar by the moon and the moon goes through these cycles in the middle of the month the moon is full it's bright it's shining the Jewish people shine most brightly in the middle of the month that's why many of our holidays are in the middle of the month the holiday of Purim is also pays off suka s-- but as the moon wanes it gets smaller and smaller until it disappears but it doesn't disappear and then it's gone it disappears and then it starts to build again and it returns and it this cycle you know in our lives we experience these things we experience times where we have more of a relationship to God where it's more clear that a Shem is in our lives or we're more committed to our relationship with Hashem our relationship to spiritual things and there are times where we lose that commitment or we lose that connection or it feels like it's gone but the message of our partnership message is sorry you may know the life 127 years of her life the message of an ester on malko and the fact that she became old and she became young again and the fact that there was what seemed to be a loss to the Jewish people and it was there was a renewal and a Redemption the message for us is that we need to always realize and recognize that our life is cyclic with our times and we have those relationships and they're deep and they're clear and they're obvious and there are times when it's weaker and it seems like we're losing it but just like a Yitzhak Avenal Isaac when he lost it it seemed that he's ready to sacrifice his life is ready to give that up it opened up the possibility for a Jewish people to come into reality for a rifka to be born and just like a sorry me know when she passes from the world it opens the space for a rifka to come into the world so it is in our lives when we experience things that are challenges or difficulties or even a loss of relationship with Hashem it's really an opening and an opportunity for an even deeper relationship with Hashem which is to come I want to bless you please bless me back a shrimp should help us to use these opportunities to recognize that there are ups and downs in our lives and that Shem should help us to be restored to that place even when it seems like we've become old in our relationship with him Hashem should help us to feel young again and to recognize that it's never too late and now we always have a chance to become beautiful in spiritual terms and enter back into a relationship thank you so much for listening have a wonderful Shabbos this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.carmensognonvi.com/newsletter [Music] you