Chayei Sara - 3rd Portion

Join me in learning for Tuesday the third Torah reading of paras chapter 24 verse 10. Yesterday we learned as alzar the servant of a is swearing to his master Aram that he will go find a woman from his original birthplace to bring home for a wife. Today we are going to learn as the servant goes on his way to follow the mission and the promise that he made to his master. Verse 10. And the servant now takes 10 uh camels from his ser master's camels and he went and all the wealth of his master was with him in his hand. and he got up and he went to the city of Ram's brother where he had settled verse 10 his master's camels the reason why he specifies and says clearly was his master's camels because one can recognize and identify they look different than any other camel sh because they went mus puzzled that they shouldn't pasture in other people's fields and they shouldn't steal not to pasture in other people's fields and all the wealth of his master in his hand. How was it possible for him to carry all of wealth? Wrote a document which in it stated that everything that he owned was given was given to this way. Whoever they meet, the girl should be excited. The woman should be interested and come quickly to send their child their daughter to marry. He gave this document to Alzar. So thereby all having all of wealth wasn't alazar's hand. Why was the place called was sitting between two rivers? Verse 11. And alazar comes there and he made the camels kneel outside the city by the well that was near the city entrance of the city of an evening time. says is the time when the woman would go out to draw the water says here beat them he made them kneel so they should sit down verse 12 and he said God the master of make this event grant me a favor that it should happen for me grant that this event should happen for me today do a favor your master of Rome. Verse 13, behold, I am standing alo at the at the spring of water and the daughters of the townsmen are coming are coming out to draw water. Verse 14. And it will be to the maiden whom I will say, please tilt your picture so that I can drink and she will say to me, drink the and also I will give your camels to drink. That is the one that you have designated that you have proven to be for your servant. And this is the way I will know that you have done kindness me with my master. Verse 14. How are you going to prove it? She's worthy to be because she's kind and she's worthy to come into the home of the word means. You have clarified it for me. You have proven in old French. This way I will know. How is he going to know? He's asking of God. Please make me known for me that this will be the girl that is charitable and therefore she should be the one that is generous and come to Ara's home. shall be from the family of and shall be appropriate for him will know that you have done kindness and found his match. The Torah now continues with verse 15 who was he has not yet even finished talking already came out that was born to pursue the son of the wife of the brother of the she came out holding a picture on her shoulder 15 I'm sorry that's verse 16 verse The Torah continues, "The maiden was very beautiful, very in appearance. The and she was she was a virgin. She has not been known to a man and she went down to the spring. She filled her picture and she came back up." Rashi asks an obvious what does it mean question? Rashi mentions here. What does it mean? This is the terminology that a virgin that she has never been with another man. What does he why does he make a double terminology saying that she was a virgin but at the same time saying no man has known her. If she was a virgin then of course no man has known her. So Rashi tells us that it was at the time the nations of the world wanted to retain their virginity. So therefore they would still be with men but in a way that they can retain their virginity of there. Therefore he says that in this case she was a woman that she was never with any other person. She did not make herself available for other people and she was clean and ready and holy from all angles. Verse 17. And the servant ran towards her and he said, "Would you be kind enough and give me some a little bit of sip of water from your picture?" 17 Rashi. Why did he run towards her if he didn't see the sign? She didn't offer it to him. Because he saw all the he saw as she went to the spring, the water came up to her. to greet her and that was the miracle. Therefore he asks means can you pour me some water? Verse 18 and she said please drink my master and she hurried up and she lowered her picture on her hand and she gave him to drink. What does it mean she lowered her picture? Because the picture was on her shoulder and she lowered it and gave him to drink and that's the way people used to carry water was on their shoulders. Verse 20. Verse 19. She finished giving him to drink and she said, "I will also draw water for your for your camels until the until they have drunk to their fill as well." Verse 19. The word means that also as if until they were have enough to drink. What is the word im over here? So explains that the words that they had enough to drink. How do I know that they're finished shrinking? When they drink enough, then they stop drinking and they had enough to drink. Verse 20. And she quickly emptied her jug into the uh into the into the trough. And she ran back to the well to draw more water and she kept them drawing water for all his men and his camels as well. What does the word mean? Emptying. We have this very many times during the Mishna. If somebody empties from one vessel to another vessel we also find a similar in the verse 141 don't empty don't pour out your soul to me in Isaiah that he poured out his soul for death means the trough the way they used to have it was there was an empty stone they would fill up an empty stone with water and then the camels would bend over and drink from it. Verse 21, the man wondered about her. He wasn't sure. He was silently thinking to know that did God make his journey successful or not? Verse 21. comes from the word emptiness where they were the cities were empty. It was desolate. What does it mean in this case? Rashi tells us he was like dumbfound. He was wondering. He wasn't sure because he saw he saw that his mission was about to be successful. But he had one problem. He sees everything so far. All the boxes are checked. She's giving him the water. The camels are getting water. But there's one problem. He doesn't know her family lineage. Don't you ask the question of why is there a tough in the word? Like there's why is there this tough there? Rashi explains to us why there is no word that starts off with a shin and then is in a t should be able to separate from the root word and then give it that terminology like the word we have here. where you also have migras. The word and the root word is the word comes from the root word comes from the word. So over here the word comes from the word. So Rashi explains why over here is the grammar differently. It's just like you find the word that a person gets confused. He's dumbfound when a person sees and he has a lot of thoughts and he doesn't know what to do on the day of the punishment says when the when the people were punished they didn't know what to do or we find that Jeremiah uses the terminology calling out to heaven you should be dumbfounded you be shall be worried or Daniel uses the terminology that he was quiet out of because of out of confusion So too you can explain it here like he's confused like a person is worried he's not sure he has so many thoughts going through him says like he was waiting the man was waiting to see was waiting to see did God actually make his way successful do not translate it as drinking the word doesn't have nothing to do with drinking the alf is not going on the less part of the word and therefore rashi explains to us over here when we have this word though maybe unique the way the actual verbage of the ver word is as we know that in Hebrew there are seven different ways how each word can be as we know this one of them is and therefore we have over here Okay. And that's the terminology that it's put with the tough in this case and it means wondering he was wowed by her. He wasn't sure what was going on. For example, say that he is my brother. When it's talking about somebody, it still has the word, but it really means Allah on her. The Torah continues now verse 22. And when the camels finished drinking and the man took a took a nose ring which was which was weighing a Becca and two gold bracelets and put it on her hand. The bracelets weighed 10 gold checkup. Rashi verse 22 Becca why this was a hint that the Jewish people eventually will give a becka per person per head for the for the half coin in the desert these two bracelets were alluding to the two the two tablets that were next to each other in the ark and exactly the same size the 10 uh was 10 gold coins was its weight weighing gold. This was alluding to the ten commandments which were on the two tablets that were engraved within the two tablets. Verse 23 and he says to her, "You're a daughter of whom? Tell me please. Does he father have placed for me to spend the night? Verse 23, Rashia says, "Seemingly something here is uh troubling. Why does he only ask her who she is after he gives her the after he gives her the gifts? He only gives it to her after he he only asks her who she is after he gives her the gifts because he was guaranteed. He was sure that God made him successful in his journey. To sleep just one night is the noun and she said to sleep over a few nights. So you see over here the terminology that he was asking to sleep only one night. She then in turn said a few verse 24 and she said the daughter of the son of that was born to verse 24 you can see how Rifka answers on the first question first and second question second first she says who she is and then in the next verse as we see in verse 25 she responds And she says to him, we have plenty of straw, plenty of we have plenty of it. We have and a place to sleep, not only one night, but many nights. What's the difference between straw and any for the camel was called not only straw but also bargain. Verse 26. The man kneelled, bowed, and to Hashem, thanking God that he finally got his answers prayed. This concludes the Torah reading for the third day, Tuesday. Please sir.