Chayei Sara - 6th Portion

Join me in learning together for the sixth Torah reading of parishes chapter 25 verse1. Today's class is fua shalma of a bengilka for speedy recovery verse 1 chapter 25. Yesterday we discussed as alazzar brought rifka back to yitzkit marries riifka and all the great miracles that happened with sarah happened with Rifka and this brought great comfort to Rifka. Now that yitk was married a continues back in his relationship. If you recall yesterday, we spoke about that went to bring hugar back to as the Torah now tells us about this as well and a now marries again. He took a woman and her name is who is this woman. Zar Rashi tells us as follows. According to Rashi, this woman verse one zuhagar. This is Hagarra. Why was she called? Because her actions were as beautiful as the incense brought on the altar as well from the comes from the word comes from to tie. She tied her door meaning that she tied herself. She did not allow herself to be married to anyone else from the day that she left Aram until she came back to him at this very moment. [snorts] Others explain as well that Coutura was uh the very fact that she converted. Others say that may have been a second woman, but the simple interpretation is that it was Haggar. Verse two, she bore to him as verse three and was the father of the and the children of the whereim as we're soon going to see Rashi tells us what they were. They were tent dwellers that they were nomadic tent dwellers and they were spread out in many different places and um and other nations as we see Rashi will soon translate the detail of each one of them. Let's see. Rashi verse three. Why were they given these names? These are not names of individuals but these are names of they are names of nations that they came from the Aramaic translations over here. He talks about how they were different people who by the actions of their lives as we translated them. But this will not fit according to the simple interpretation of the verse. And the way that the tarum explains them is as we mentioned either that they had tents or they would travel from place to place or they lived in different nations. The word inashi just to go that he tells us of here what the tells us like a campf the explains is to mean the word and you may say how is this possible if there's no uh words with an alf at the beginning of them and they only added the olives. So Rashi gives us some examples where we find it as well. They were people of tents that they would travel in all different directions and each person would travel with his own tent and are interchangeable. But over here lusha means people that were nomadic going from place to place going they weren't settled in one place verse five is called gave everything he owned to though they are these other children as well but his bath everything he owned he gave to let's see being that we know that he gave everything he own why does he mention it again said he gave him the blessings meaning he gave him a document which is usually given as a person who's lying on their deathbed and therefore they don't actually have to have a um an acquisition no transaction has to actually be made but the very fact that he says that that in itself is considered a transaction because God told him that it will be for a blessing The blessings were given to you that you have the ability and you have the right to bless anybody you'd like. and gave them over to verse five of our verse six and to the childrens of the sons of the concubine whom Ara had taken gave them gifts and he sent them away while he was he sent them away from while he was still alive he sent them where eastward seema eastward Kadam, the land of Kadam away from his son. What does it mean? The concubines. If you notice, it's missing. It doesn't say uh it says it without audim. And the reason is because it's coming to minimize it. He only had one concubine which was Hagar Hagar, which is so why then does he use it? um multiple using a plural. So what are they different? What's the difference between wives and concubines? So Rashi explains a wife is what you acquire and you have to give a contract, a marital contract. action but a concubine those are the ones that he married without a marital contracted like it's discussed in Sanhedrin 21a talking about the differences between that the king David had wives and he also had concubines and the difference of the Talmud explains one was with a kuba with a marital contract and one was without the gave them gifts if he already gave everything. So then what did he have to give to the children of the concubines? Our rabbis explain he gave them actually the ability to utilize impurity meaning to utilize for demons or magic, black magic. He gave them that they should be able to overcome that they should not hurt them. Others explained something else that he gave them gifts. He gave them gifts that they accepted that got in the honor of that means everything he had he g some things were given in the honor of Sah and that's what he gave to them that means he was given gifts um many gifts that were given to if you recall whenever Sarah was taken away they gave gifts to a because of her Aram did not want to enjoy the pleasure from it he didn't want to enjoy it as well. So therefore, he gave it to these children. Verse seven, the Torah now begins to tell us about Abraham's death. This was the these are the days and the years of that he lived 100 years 70 years and five years a lived 175 years. Why does again we mentioned if you recall the beginning of when he splits up the years of Sarah he also does this that he splits up he goes. So Rashi explains us as well when he was se 100 he was like 70. When it came as strength that he never got weakened as an old age and when he was seven he was like a child of five years old without any sins breath his last and died in an old age. This was in the year 2123 to the creation of the universe. And as an old mellow and cont and he was gathered to his people in the afterlife which means mellow and content at the end of his life. Verse n and his sons buried him. Where did they bury him? in the cave of the I'll stay Ephine in the field of Ephron the son of theite I'll play that was facing the plains of mamre you'll notice that yes has a reappearance again here that came to bury his father so Rashi tells us this is because from here we learn repented and he allowed to go before technically was older before. Therefore, it says by that he passed at an old age, mellow and content, which was content with the fact that saw that his son Yeshel also repented at the end of his life. Verse 10. This is the field that acquired from that's where was buried and Sarah his wife. Verse 11 was after died. God blessed his son and settled in the vicinity of verse 11 once died. So therefore God came to comfort him as we want to call it blessed him with the blessing of comforting the mourers. Another reason why what does it mean that God blessed them here? Even though that God gave the blessings to was worried to bless with it because he saw he saw that was going to come from so therefore didn't want to bless him necessarily. Omar said rather let the one who gave the blessings which is almighty God himself be and bless who he wishes. Therefore God came along and blessed. This concludes the sixth Torah reading of