Shnayim Yomi - Chayei Sarah - Sheni - #2

[Music] 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 [Music] you