Parshat Chayei Sarah: We All Live a double life - The Soul & The Afterlife

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

today we're going to be talking about um of course this para begins after s IMU passes away um and the uh the opening verse is actually begins with a very interesting word it starts off and this was Sarah's life the word v our rabis explained to us in it's it's a variation of the word v over there they actually speak about the word v but the V at the end here just is is to make it plural um but really it's the same word is V the explains that the same it's the same as V now over there the rabbis explained to us that every time you have the word v anywhere in tanak anywhere in scripture so it's a reference to something big that happens something uh very important and it's either going to be something very joyous or something you know very sad some something that's very Troublesome for the Jewish people so over here we have to appreciate how that plays out why Torah shifts and uses the word v which which is an indication of either something very good or very bad anyhow so and this this was Sarah's life so it says that she lived 127 years and then the P concludes the years of Sarah's life now there were a few questions we want to bring out in this uh in this uh verse which will help us appreciate and understand what's really going on about Sarah's life and and you know we'll learn some lessons how it appli appes even to to ourselves as well so what sticks out is on a on a simple level and

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1. 0:00today we're going to be talking about um of course this para begins after s IMU…
2. 1:37the mfim speak about it Rashi talks about it and other commentaries have what to say…
3. 3:14Sarah like Sarah had somehow two lives how that what that means we will We hopefully…
4. 4:50you know I found one of the commentators that he brings up this this question another…
5. 6:53with venatu is that giving charity when you give charity so you receive in return and…
6. 8:26not he'll either be happy or sad and that's it the end when the end of…
7. 10:04is really a world that comes also the L the translation the next World the world…
8. 12:11later but now let's take the same verse and and apply it to ourselves now not…
9. 13:47when a person makes the wrong the wrong choices okay the in Sarah's case it's the…
10. 15:20so that's the way we would appreciate it for in Sarah's case not not to mention…

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