BereshiytIn the Beginning Commonly called Genesis Torah Portion Chayyei Sarah Chapter 23:1 25:18

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Bereshiyt/In the Beginning Commonly called
GenesisTorah Portion Chayyei SarahChapter 231
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Wayne Ingalls
http//www.BeitTefillah.org
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The Traditional Blessing Before Reading the Torah
Portion
Baruch atah Adonay Eloheynu melech ha'olam,
asher bachar banu mikol-ha'amim, venatan lanu
et-torato Blessed are You Adonai our Elohim,
King of the Universe, who has chosen us from all
peoples and has given us His Torah.
Baruch atah Adonay, noten hatorah Blessed are
You - Adonai, Giver of the Torah.
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• Bereshiyt/Genesis 23 1

Vayyihyu Chayyey Sarahh meah shanah veesrriym
shanah vesheva shaniym sheney chayyey
Sarah. Bereshiyt 231 (Artscroll) Sarah's
lifetime was one hundred years, twenty years, and
seven years the years of Sarah's life
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Read the Torah Portion

• Kohen Bereshiyt 231 - 16
• Levite Bereshiyt 2317 249
• 3rd Aliyah Bereshiyt 2410 26
• 4th Aliyah Bereshiyt 2427 52
• 5th Aliyah Bereshiyt 2453 66
• 6th Aliyah Bereshiyt 251 11
• 7th Aliyah Bereshiyt 2512 18

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The Traditional Blessing After Reading the Torah
Portion
Baruch atah Adonay, Eloheynu melech ha'olam,
asher natan lanu torat emet, vechayey olam nata
betochenu. Blessed are You Adonai our Elohim,
King of the universe, who has given us the Torah
of truth, and has planted everlasting life in our
midst.
Baruch atah Adonay, noten hatorah Blessed are
You - Adonai, Giver of the Torah.
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Mitzvot in the Torah Portion
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Literal Translation of Bereshiyt 231
And-they-were lives-of Sarah hundred year
and-twenty year and-seven years years-of lives-of
Sarah. Chai (life) is in the plural construct
form (lives of), appearing twice in this
verse. The same phrase is used of Abraham
(Bereshiyt 257) and Ishmael (Bereshiyt 2517)
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Sarahs Life (Lives)

• Rashi explains that the repetition of years
  divides Sarah's life into three periods, each
  with its own uniqueness and each period shared
  the particular characteristic of its neighbor.
  At a hundred she was as sinless as a
  twenty-year-old, for until the age of twenty, a
  person does not suffer Heavenly punishment. And
  at twenty she still had the wholesome beauty of a
  seven-year-old, who does not use cosmetics and
  whose beauty is natural.

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• The Small Kaf

And-to-weep-for-her
Kaf is the letter which means the open hand.
Abrahams mourning for his wife is described as
an open hand before God that cannot be filled or
satisfied. His petition to God for her return
could not be filled, therefore his hand remained
open. From The Jots and Tittles of Moses, by
Monte Judah, Published in Yavoh, July 2004
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• The Letter Kaph

The letter kaph translates into English as
palm.
From http//www.ancient-hebrew.org
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• Qiryat Arba

Genesis 232 (NASB) Sarah died in Kiriath-arba
(that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan and
Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep
for her. There are four views as to the meaning
of Qiryat Arba (City of Arba or City of
Four)
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• Qiryat Arba

• City of the giant (descendant of Anaq) named
  Arba.
• City of the four giants (anaqim).
• City of the four couples who would be buried in
  the cave Abraham bought.
• 4. Qiryat Arba has 4 names.

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• Qiryat Arba

The first and second view are related and come
from these verses Joshua 1415a (Artscroll) The
name of Hebron was formerly Kiriath-Arba, who was
the biggest man among the Anakim. Numbers 13
22 (Artscroll) They ascended in the south and he
arrived at Hebron, where there were Ahiman,
Sheshai, and Talmai, the offspring of the giant
(ha-anaq). Hebron had been built seven years
before Zoan of Egypt
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• Qiryat Arba

The third view comes from the Zohar Come and
see this place is called Kiryat Arba (lit. 'city
of four') because four couples were buried there
Adam and Chavah, Avraham and Sarah, Yitzchak and
Rivkah, and Ya'akov and Leah. (Zohar, Vayeichi,
802)
Source https//www.kabbalah.com/k/index.php/pzo
har/zoharvol14sec5145211
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• Qiryat Arba

The fourth view comes from Midrash Rabbah
And Sarah died in Kiryat-Arba, i.e. the city of
four. It had four names Eschol, Mamre, Kiryat
Arba, and Hebron. Why was it called Kiryat-Arba?
Because four righteous men dwelt in it Aner,
Eshcol, Mamre and Avraham and four righteous men
were circumcised in it Avraham, Aner, Eshcol and
Mamre. Again, four righteoous men were buried
therein Adam, Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov.
Four matriarchs were buried therein Chava,
Sarah, Rivka and Leah (Midrash Rabbah Genesis
LVIII4)
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• Abraham A Ger and a Toshav

Genesis 234 (NASB) "I am a stranger (ger) and a
sojourner (toshav) among you give me a burial
site among you that I may bury my dead out of my
sight." Rashi comments I am a stranger from
another land, and I have settled among you.
This is the first appearance of toshav, and the
second of ger. The first was in Bereshiyt 1513
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• Abraham A Ger and a Toshav

Bereshiyt/Genesis 1513 (ISR) And He said to
Ab_ram, Know for certain that your seed (zera)
are to be sojourners (ger, singular) in a land
that is not theirs, and shall serve them, and
they shall afflict them four hundred
years. Abraham described himself as a ger and
a toshav to the Hittites.
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Israel is a People of Geriym and Toshaviym

• Vayiqra/Leviticus 2523 (NASB) 'The land,
  moreover, shall not be sold permanently, for the
  land is Mine for you are but aliens (geriym) and
  sojourners (toshaviym) with Me.

• Comments/Questions
• Israel even in the Land of Israel are geriym and
  toshaviym according to the Scripture.

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Israel is a People of Geriym and Toshaviym

• 1 Peter 11 (Peshitta) Petros, a sent-one
  (shelicha, Heb shliach) of Yeshua Messiah, to
  the chosen-ones and sojourners (tautava, Heb
  toshav) who are scattered in Pontos and in
  Galatia, and in Kapadukia, and in Asia, and in
  Bithunia

• Comments/Questions
• Still Sojourning.

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Israel is a People of Geriym and Toshaviym

• Galatians 329 (Peshitta) And if you are of
  Messiah, then you are the seed (zara) of Abraham
  and heirs in the promise.

• Comments/Questions
• Abrahams zera will be geriym and toshaviymNo
  matter where they are
• and yet neither aliens nor sojourners..

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No Longer Aliens, Strangers, Sojourners

• Ephesians 212 (Peshitta) And you were, at that
  time, without the Messiah and were aliens
  (nokraya) from the regulations of Israel and
  strangers (aksenaya) to the covenants of the
  promise and were without hope, and without Eloha
  in the world.
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• Ephesians 219 (Peshitta) So, not being strangers
  (aksenaya), nor sojourners (tautava), but sons of
  the set apart city and sons of the house of
  Eloha.

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No Longer Aliens, Strangers, Sojourners

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• What is an aksenaya? Stranger, foreigner,
  visitor.
• What is a tautava? Tautava is the direct Aramaic
  cognate for the Hebrew word toshav (The Hebrew
  letter Shin sometimes becomes an Aramaic Taw). 

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No Longer Aliens, Strangers, Sojourners

• Toshav/Tautava is also used interchangably with
  ger, and this is how Stephen uses it in Acts 7
  when he quotes from Bereshiyt 153
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• Bereshiyt/Genesis 15 13 (ISR) your seed are to
  be sojourners (gerim) in a land that is not
  theirs
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• Acts 76  (Peshitta) And Eloha conversed with
  him, and said to him Your seed will be a
  sojourner (tautava) in a foreign land and they
  will reduce it to servitude, and will treat it
  ill, during four hundred years. 

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• Bury Your Dead

Bereshiyt 236 (ISR) Hear us, my master
(adoniy) You are a prince of Elohim among us.
Bury your dead in the choicest of our burial
places. None of us withholds from you his burial
site, from burying your dead. Artscroll
Commentary The Hittites treated Abraham with
the utmost respect. Contrary to his modest
description of himself as only an alien and a
resident, they addressed him as a prince of God,
so respectfully, that they offered to surrender
to him even personal, family burial places.
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• Machpelah

Genesis 239 (NASB) that he may give me the cave
of Machpelah which he owns, which is at the end
of his field for the full price let him give it
to me in your presence for a burial site."
Machpelah is understood to mean double and
comes from the three letter root
kafal. If this word is written with a hard peh
instead of a soft feh as its middle letter, can
you recognize the English word that is derived
from this Hebrew word??
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• Deeded Over to Abraham

Genesis 2319-20 (NASB) 19 After this, Abraham
buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field at
Machpelah facing Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the
land of Canaan. 20 So the field and the cave
that is in it, were deeded over to Abraham for a
burial site by the sons of Heth. Is this deed
still recognized today?
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Advanced in Days

• Gen 241 (ISR) And Ab_raham was old, advanced in
  years. And ????  had blessed Ab_raham in every
  way.
• Every translation I checked says years, or
  age but the Hebrew says bayamiym (in-days).
  
• Day is called light (Bereshiyt 15) and
  Torah is called light (Proverbs 623).

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Not a Canaanite Wife

• Bereshiyt 243 (ISR) so that I make you swear by
  ????, the Elohim of the heavens and the Elohim of
  the earth, that you do not take a wife for my son
  from the daughters of the Kenaanites, among whom
  I dwell,
• Why not a Canaanite wife? Was it because of the
  idolatry of the Canaanites?

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Not a Canaanite Wife

• Artscroll Commentary
• The rejection of the Canaanites could not have
  been based on their idol worship, because
  Abraham's family in Charan worshiped idols, as
  well. Rather, Abraham was motivated by the moral
  degeneracy of the Canaanites. Idolatry is an
  intellectual perversion, and as such it can be
  remedied, but a lack of morality, ethics, and
  modesty affects a person's entire nature, and
  disqualifies a woman from being the mate of an
  Isaac

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Dont Take Him Back There!

• Genesis 245-6 (NASB) 5 The servant said to him,
  "Suppose the woman is not willing to follow me to
  this land should I take your son back to the
  land from where you came?" 6 Then Abraham said
  to him, "Beware that you do not take my son back
  there!
• Why not?

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Another One of Those Places..

• Perhaps you have heard or read
• Exodus 63 (NASB) and I appeared to Abraham,
  Isaac, and Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My
  name, LORD, I did not make Myself known to them.
• Except.Abraham called on the Name of YHWH (e.g.
  Bereshiyt 2133) and in this chapter tells his
  servant

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Another One of Those Places..

• Perhaps you have heard or read
• Exodus 63 (NASB) and I appeared to Abraham,
  Isaac, and Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My
  name, LORD, I did not make Myself known to them.
• Except.Abraham called on the Name of YHWH (e.g.
  Bereshiyt 2133) and in this chapter tells his
  servant

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???? Took Me From My Fathers House

• Bereshiyt 246-8 (ISR) 6 And Ab_raham said to
  him, Beware lest you take my son back there! 7
  ????, Elohim of the heavens, who took me from my
  fathers house and from the land of my relatives,
  and who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, To
  your seed I give this land, He sends His
  messenger before you, and you shall take a wife
  for my son from there. 8 And if the woman refuses
  to follow you, then you shall be released from
  this oath only, do not take my son back there.

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Bethuelah and Almah

• Bereshiyt 2415-16 (NASB) 15  Before he had
  finished speaking, behold, Rebekah who was born
  to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of
  Abraham's brother Nahor, came out with her jar on
  her shoulder. 16 The girl was very beautiful, a
  virgin (bethulah), and no man had had relations
  with her and she went down to the spring and
  filled her jar and came up.

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Bethulah and Almah

• Bereshiyt 2443 (NASB) behold, I am standing by
  the spring, and may it be that the maiden (almah)
  who comes out to draw, and to whom I say, "Please
  let me drink a little water from your jar"
• Almah is used in parallel with Betulah which was
  used in paralel with no relations with a man.
  This is the 1st use of almah. What kind of wife
  was being sought for Isaac?
• ,

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Bethulah and Almah

• Isaiah 714 (NASB) Therefore the Lord Himself
  will give you a sign Behold, a virgin (almah)
  will be with child and bear a son, and she will
  call His name Immanuel.
• So, almah can defintely mean the traditional
  Christian understanding based on the rule of
  first use.
• The verse was quoted by Matthew, but did not
  originally refer to the Messiah

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An Excerpt from Ten Little Lost Tribes

• EMES Yes, Id like to ask you about your
  Immanuel prophecy.
• ISAIAH Ah, yes. That was a sign given to Ahaz,
  King of Judah. God promised that the siege of
  Aram and the Northern Kingdom would not
  succeedinstead they would be (gesture as if
  breaking a stick) shattered. (VERY grand and
  dramatically) 14 ? Behold, a virgin will be with
  child and bear a son, and she will call His name
  Immanuel. He will eat curds and honey at the time
  He knows enough to refuse evil and choose good.
  For before the boy will know enough to refuse
  evil and choose good, the land whose two kings
  you dread will be forsaken

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An Excerpt from Ten Little Lost Tribes

• EMES Okay, so the boy, Immanuelthe one you
  talked about to Ahazthe Northern Kingdom
  got(imitates Isaiahs gesture) shattered after
  he was born but before he reached the age of
  accountability12 or so.
• ISAIAH Exactlyand Aram, too.
• JOSEPHINE (Tug on EMESs sleeve) When did the
  northern kingdom get shattered?
• EMES (To JOSEPHINE) 722 BCE

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An Excerpt from Ten Little Lost Tribes

• JOSEPHINE What? Thats more than 700 years
  before Jesus was born!
• EMES Rightso the Immanuel Isaiah specifically
  prophesied about could not have been Jesus. In
  fact, many Bible scholars believe that the
  prophet was actually talking about King Hezekiah
  of Judahyet this same prophecy would be
  revisited as a sign and a wonder once again to a
  down trodden Judah when Jesus is born.

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Camels

• Genesis 2420 (NASB) So she quickly emptied her
  jar into the trough, and ran back to the well to
  draw, and she drew for all his camels.
• A camel can go more than two weeks without
  drinking under a scorching heat. But, when it
  catches the opportunity, in can drink more than
  100 liters of water in less than 10 minutes!

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Laban

• Bereshiyt/Genesis 2430-31 (ISR) 30 And it came
  to be, when he saw the nose ring, and the
  bracelets on his sisters wrists, and when he
  heard the words of his sister Rib_qah, saying,
  Thus the man spoke to me, that he went to the
  man and saw him standing by the camels at the
  fountain. 31 And he said, Come in, O blessed of
  ????! Why do you stand outside? I myself have
  prepared the house, and a place for the camels.
• What is Labans motivation??

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Keturah
Genesis 251-4, 8 (NASB) Now Abraham took another
wife, whose name was Keturah. 2 She bore to him
Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian and
Ishbak and Shuah. 3 Jokshan became the father of
Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were
Asshurim and Letushim and Leummim. 4 The sons of
Midian were Ephah and Epher and Hanoch and Abida
and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah.
8 Abraham breathed his last and died in a
ripe old age, an old man and satisfied with life
and he was gathered to his people.
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Keturah
Artscroll Commentary Keturah. Abraham remarried
Hagar, who was given this name because her deeds
were as beautiful as incense ketores, and
because she remained chaste keturah is Aramaic
for restrained from the time she was separated
from Abraham.
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Gathered to His People
Genesis 25 8b (NASB) .and he was gathered to
his people. This is already a reference to
resurrection and life after death.
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Parshah Chayyei SarahHaftorah 1 Kings 11-31
Suggested Apostolic readingsMatthew 819-22,
273-10 Luke 957-62.
Wayne Ingalls
http//www.BeitTefillah.org
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The Traditional Blessing Before the Haftorah
Baruch atah Adonay Eloheynu melech ha'olam,
asher bachar binviyiym tovim veratzah
vedivreyhem hagaemariym beemet Blessed are You
Adonai our Elohim, King of the Universe, who
has chosen good prophets and was pleased with
their words that they spoke in truth.
Baruch atah Adonay, habocher batorah uvMosheh
avdo uvYisrael amo uvineviyey haemet
vatzedeq. Blessed are You - Adonai, who chose
Torah, and Moshe His servant, and Yisrael His
people, and prophets of the truth and
righteousness.
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Haftorah
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The Blessing Before the Brit Chadashah is Read
Baruch atah Adonay Eloheynu melech ha'olam,
asher natan lanu et Yeshua binkha kimeshicheynu
golaenu moshienu kapporatenu vadonen, vet
sifrei Brit Chadashah lemanu ulekhal haamin.
Blessed are You Adonai our Elohim, King of
the Universe, who has given us your son as our
Messiah, our redeemer, our saviour, our
atonement, and our Master, and the books of the
Renewed Covenant to our people and to all the
peoples.
Baruch atah Adonay noten yeshuah bYeshua
HaMashiach. Blessed are You - Adonai, giver of
salvation in Yeshua the Messiah.
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Apostolic Scriptures
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The Blessing After the Brit Chadashah is Read
Baruch atah Adonay Eloheynu melech ha'olam,
asher natan et devarkha haTanakh vBrit Chadasha
lekhol bney-adam. Barukh atah Adonai mevi et
hagoel Yeshua lmaan shemo bahavah. Blessed
are You Adonai our Elohim, King of the
Universe, who has given your Word, the Tanakh,
and the Renewed Covenant to all the children of
Adam. Blessed are you, Adonai, who for His own
Names sake, in love, has brought Yeshua the
Redeemer.
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The Aharonic Blessing
"Speak to Aharon and his sons, and tell them that
this is how you are to bless the people of
Isra'el you are to say to them, Y'varekh'kha
ADONAI v'yishmerekha. Ya'er ADONAI panav
eleikha vichunekka. Yissa ADONAI panav eleikha
v'yasem l'kha shalom. May ADONAI bless you and
keep you. May ADONAI make his face shine on you
and show you his favor. May ADONAI lift up his
face toward you and give you peace. "In this
way they are to put my Name on the people of
Isra'el, so that I will bless them."
(Hebrew ????)