Chayei Sarah: Secret Caves and Labyrinths of the Meoras Hamachpelah

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Daniel Glatstein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Okay, good morning friends. We have a very interesting uh topic today of course talks about the historic purchase of the ham. You can listen to yesterday's sh we gave a sh about why was it necessary for for to purchase the when already gave him is but today we're going to speak about uh who is buried in the marah and some surprising I will bury my dead before you. It says seven times. And all the ask on the repetition why seven times, three times, four times, but seven times also why the first six times does it say and then the seventh time it says and then the the gra famously says that it is known that when Abrau wanted to bury Sara in the Marasa There were already two people buried there. Adam and Kava were already buried there. So now after the burial of Adam and Eve, we need three more pairs. Abra and Sarit and Leah. The six mentions of hame is a rem to the six additional people who will be buried in the mars and tell us in the gimmel that when the bakov came to the to bury their father as came to contend the ownership of the field and banan took a sword and he chopped off his head and the head rolled until it reached By the way, the Arizal says that the reason why Asab's head was buried in the is because in the mouth of Asav were the tanimi mayor and other and whenever I go to the I make a special visit to Asav's head. Why? because I like to visit Rabbi Mayor, you know, since Rabbi, you know, I'm a big uh I'm a big Ra uh advocate. So, it's not

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