Rabbi Dr. David Gottlieb - Studies in Chumash: Chayei Sarah - The Burial Site

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you yeah I show you something in this week's parsha this is Middle Eastern negotiations I started thinking this chapter but I'm really interested in verse 4 and on Sarah's life x 100 years 20 is the seven years he's a Sarah's life she died in Kiryat Arba she's hyper on land of Kanaan everyone came to eulogize sarah be well her it rose over the presence of his dead spoke the children if I say I am an alien and a resident among you means I come from a different land I come from a different people but I have taken up residence here grant me an estate for a burial site with you that I might bury my dead from before me Sheldon okays answered Abraham saying to hear us my lord you are I Prince of God in our midst and the choices of our burial places bury your dead any of us will not withhold this burial place for you from burying your dead beautiful no I want to ask you look carefully read like a lawyer Abraham made a request is their answer to him yes or no yes I mean it seems like I guess maybe of Monsieur you're seeing it that we stayed in a year in Savannah I mean why would you say no it's me what he's saying though say no because he asked for two things yes well ask Merlin it's not a saying he has the two things grant me and a state grant me and a state for burial site give me a piece of land I'll bury my dead there what do they say to his request for a piece of

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