It's a Mitzvah to be Happy!

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good morning so let's begin uh with the para for the week which is Sarah which means the life of Sarah and actually begins with Sarah's death Begins by the words the life of Sarah was or she lived for 127 years which is quite a long life although her husband Abraham lived to 175 so he outlived here by about 48 years um excuse me and so the Torah tells us that then with so the Torah tells us that then with Sarah having died Abraham was a foreigner in the land of Canan he did not come from there and so he owned no land and he needed a place to bury his wife and so he lives in Krone he turns to the people of Krone and asks them says please sell me the plot of land that I can bury my wife I could build I could u i could dig a grave and they say you can uh you can bury your wife anywhere in the best of our um cemeteries wherever you like you could bury your wife he said no I have a specific request I would like the cave specific request I would like the cave of Mela which is in the field belonging to ephon the hittite um it doesn't say why Abraham wanted particularly that cave but the medish tells us that Adam and Eve had both been buried in that cave and that's why Abraham wanted it um and so um at first Ephron offers it to him for free but Abraham insists on paying and so Ephron charges him an exorbitant sum 400 shekels which in today's pricing would be extremely cheap

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3. 11:17Commandments but do so happily so we have a religious obligation to be happy now being…
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