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Shnayim Yomi - Chayei Sarah - Sheni - #2
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Featuring: Rabbi Shaanan Gelman Kehilat Chovevei Tzion Skokie, IL Click below for today's text of Shnayim Mikra: https://shnayimyomi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Chayei-Sarah-2-compressed.pdf ShnayimYomi.org
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having acquired the land now avram uh
busies himself uh with the burial of
sarah and it's important to remember
that the ultimate burial plot that we
mentioned is the barrel plot for the
patriarchs and the matriarchs the future
of the most except for rahul who for
another reason is buried elsewhere uh
rashi adds that the field of ephron the
post says vayakum stay ephron that there
was an elevation of the field of ephron
that we take an inanimate object such as
a field and we hand it over from someone
like ephron to avraham avinu we're not
just trading uh commodities we're not
just trading a property and handing it
over from one to the other and it's
worthless people sometimes attach
nostalgic value to property to homes
but it's more than that it's that the
actual value the spiritual value of the
land was elevated from the hands of a of
an ephron of a hittite to the hands of
avraham avinu possessions take on
prominent role in the hands of saddiquim
as well they take on more than just
physical value the maras machpelah
becomes a makkam kadash a place that is
holy at this moment the moment avraham
acquires it avram is now at an advanced
age but he's blessed with everything
blessed are with everything khazal
pointed out raj he says that bakol means
he had a son barco is the gematria the
numerical equivalent of ben so avram had
everything meaning he had a son at this
point he had a son he had everything he
needed but this also rashu says is the
impetus for the next partial we're about
to read which is that he now has to find
a shidduch for his son because he had
bakula because he had a ben
he now had to go and look for uh for a
shirak there are other mafiashim who
point out that actually the coal refers
to daughters that he had he may have had
daughters as well which are not
stipulated but it's not the main
approach eliezer is the servant of
avraham and he's given a mission the
mission is to go and find the shidduch
for yitzchak for the next one of the
patriarchs the challenge is that point
out that eliezer himself had a vested
interest in not doing so because they
had a daughter that he would have
preferred
marry into the family of avraham avinu
but he had to put his own wishes his own
desires aside in order to fulfill the
mandate of his master of avraham this is
why he is known as eliezer evident the
quintessential servant the servant is
someone who puts the agenda personal
agenda on the back burner in order to
fulfill the wishes of the person
at whose command he functions and so
that's why eliezer is known as the avid
avraham the great servant of avraham
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