The Secret of Matches, Isaac and Rebecca - Rabbi Baruch Rosenblum in a Fascinating Lesson on Matc...

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Amen. The Torah portion we will read, God willing, this Shabbat is Parshat Chayei Sarah, in the year 5785. The portion begins, "Sarah's lifetime was one hundred years, twenty years, and seven years; these were the years of Sarah's life." The Torah says, "Sarah died in Kiryat Arba, which is Hebron, in the land of Canaan, and Abraham came to eulogize Sarah and to weep for her." The first question that anyone who reads this asks themselves is: How did our mother Sarah pass away in Hebron? In Kiryat Arba, which is Hebron, our mother Sarah. She lived in Beersheba; how did she get to Hebron? The words of the Sages in the Gemara, Tractate Sukkah, are well-known. The holy Sages say: A person's feet are their guarantors. The Gemara says: A person's feet bring him. To the place where he is meant to depart from the world. "A person's feet"—the feet of a human being bring him to the place where he is destined to leave the world. And therefore, one of the proofs—the Gemara there discusses a story with Solomon. We won't get into the whole story in the Gemara; what concerns us is that she lived in Beersheba. But the Holy One, blessed be He, wanted her departure from the world to be in Hebron. So what did He do? The Shach tells us in his commentary on the Torah . Satan came. Satan arrived in

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1. 0:00Amen. The Torah portion we will read, God willing, this Shabbat is Parshat Chayei Sarah, in…
2. 5:34she died. Almost slaughtered, so her soul flew away. These are the things written here. Actually,…
3. 11:40praised be His name forever, told me: " Take now your son, your only son, whom…
4. 17:47read this portion in the Torah, the reading awakens the time. Think that this time is…
5. 23:53girl—this one will be the wife." There was no guessing here, he prayed that it would…
6. 29:55it is the same thing. Up to this point, gentlemen, I just want to dwell on…
7. 35:33letter asks the other guy: Where are you getting off? He says: I'm from such-and-such place.…
8. 42:39did you go out today to draw water?"" Why, yes father, I went out to draw…
9. 48:49Abraham? What is "for your wife Sarah"? It should be "a son for Abraham and for…
10. 54:59brings the Tana D'Vei Eliyahu that says otherwise. It is known to everyone that the Zohar…

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