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[Music] okay just testing out this um this no idea oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay from you here mhm okay so you did yesterday well either way recap quick recap soam aino our forefather is looking to bury our foremother Sarah his wife who is now passed at the very beginning of the Torah portion this week and he of course wants to buy the cave of M and we learned yesterday about the whole uh ordeal that that became just to buy it because in short the people of the land or namely ephra the son ofar who owned that land wanted to give it away to abam and Abram insisted on paying for it there's a lot of uh reasoning behind this of course um it's actually pointed out by our sages that the of course the whole land of Israel belongs to the Jewish people but especially the cave of M the Temple Mount and the tomb of Joseph the Y's tomb in um these are recorded in the tah as not just gifts to us from Hashem being part of the whole land in general but as purchases that we have made in the past our ancestors purchased these plots of land for their full value and even as we read yesterday AB got ripped off on this right he ended up paying 400 silver shekels that were of universal currency in other words some in some places the shekele is bigger some places the shekele is smaller these were the big ones that would work anywhere and everywhere okay so now just continuing on to that story finishing up up that that purchase um is how today's Kish starts and then we start the next uh part very interesting uh idea actually how what we're about to read how this is the first right today we know of many this the first in the um that abam is going to send elazar his trusty servant and he's basically going to make him a he's going to make him his Emissary his messenger um and our sages uh tell us actually according to many opinions that he freed him um from being in the category of a servant um and and sent him off to go find a wife for our forefather y abah's son and we begin to read about that first conversation between Abraham and elzar today so first of all back to the cave right ep's field of Mel which faced The Plains of mam the field the cave within it and every tree within its perimeter was thus confirmed now that Abram gave over these 400 silver shekels of universal currency um universally negotiable currency now it was confirmed as of Ram's purchase publicly in full view of thetis theti people and of all who had come to the gate of a city thereby making the purchase it uses a fancy word over here in the in this incontrovertible did I pronounce that correctly let's see just cuz we're live streaming I figure like we should do some some silly things things like this um even though like I personally myself you know we get what it means I don't think I need to pronounce it correctly but let's see incontrovertible incontrovertible yes we got it right not able to be denied or disputed um and it's interesting the Tera uses the word I'll read I'll read that I just read the translation of T here from the but I'll read the inside with the with the Holy tongue with the with's words of the so we use the term that this that the field arose in other words it was confirmed as A's purchase but we use this term which in Hebrew means it arose it it it it it rose up and we see here how just because Abraham intended on doing this great Mitzvah of of uh burying his wife and especially because his wife our forother Sarah was was no I think it's yours um just like my wife is it s um and so his intention that she would be there already made the the the physical land rise up in status um um yeah so the fact that he was purchasing it and the fact that he was about to go bury Sarah in it made it made it rose from a commoner's property to that of of a noble person right Abraham's um fine let's see any rashis inside yeah that this that the field of eph arose oh I have AA in 30 minutes I need to tell him that that I have an appointment yeah let me message him [Music] now I'll also send in the link to this live stream which I just figure out how to [Music] [Applause] do think I could send a voice note while I'm live yeah it's not impossible the truth is I don't plan on going to the O I plan on going to the rabba hopefully we don't need to go to the O for that okay so says okay so what I just told you yeah that eon's field arose it had a rise in status because it passed from the hands of an ordinary person to the hands of a king a noble person AB but simply speaking obviously that's a little bit more of like an interpretation on the on the specific word by yakum that it arose but simply speaking it means that now it was a confirmed purchase um that every in front of everyone who had come to the gate of the city to you know see this transpire right everybody was witnessed to this basically to ab's Legal possession um ab's purchase from EP fine your test I'll read first in once AB purchased the field and the cave thereby two things a completely disassociating ephron's name from them and B elevating their status to that of Royal Property he buried his wife Sarah in the cave of the field of Mel facing the plains of mam which is in Canan and in order to show proper respect for S AR wanted to bury her in the field of a noble rather than in that of a commoner so uh there are many many reasons why abam insisted on buying the land even though they were even insisting on giving it to him for free um and as we know good things don't come for free and um especially I'm saying spiritually speaking there's a lot of significance to the hard work and and actually paying for something um it's full price but the unless you want watches and you don't want to pay their full price right I should plug my my business over here then then you come to me um but I mean full price and effort and in and in like not not trying to uh skimp on on something of of serious value um and obviously this is a lot more valuable than any any high-end watch um and Abraham specifically wants wanted but over here what we're mentioning is I won't get so into the the details of that um but AR specifically wanted to buy it so that he could completely disass Associated from ephra and have the full uh authority over it and also because he wants that his his wife should he should be able to bury his wife in land that he owns not that's not land that is owned by someone else um perhaps I should also plug the concept of buying a burial site right officially that's a schoa for a long life is if you already own the property that your body would in theory be buried in and I like to say in theory and I I kind of struggle with this idea because you know living in mashia mode like now we're not expecting to die so what's that all about but that is what the code of Jewish law tells us that by buying this property you actually um it's it's actually a siga for long life um okay keep saying um it's very interesting to do these things life you know it's funny because I I don't even know how many people are watching this maybe zero maybe one chances are like one or two um and I would be much less nervous even if there was like 30 people around the table right now um so just because I guess the idea is like there's a potential here of you know so many people watching this either logging on and seeing it live or in the future that's kind of you know as you're uploading to the Internet it's just there unless you take like bu active take active measures to uh take it down so it's uh there is an interesting thing to be said about that but this is way more interesting so I'll stop uh talking about that and continue doing Kish okay we're going to go a little quicker so the field and its cave were thus confirmed is aam's property by the fact that he designated the cave in accordance with his intention in buying it as a burial ground purchased outright and unequivocally from thetis through ephra that is the final verse of this chapter chapter 23 of Genesis and that ends this this particular story right oh I just read that one so the last verse is okay moving on right into Genesis CH 24 before things get spicy over here three years later in the year 2088 from creation 20088 decided it was time for to marry Rifka a already 3 years prior had decided that it was time for him to find a wife for y and begun the search uh began the search and hasem told Abraham that your son is going to marry the daughter of B her name is Rifka and now Aram decided that they should get married by this time Abraham was 140 years old even though he was old and maturity tends to breed benign nonchalant AB continued to deeply internalize his experiences some people make fun of Facebook I know this is streaming live on Facebook that like all the older people are on Facebook right well first of all the cool Young People Like Us here in this video are on Facebook that's number one number two is that um age as the freb the previous RAB says is simply a number on the passport a person's real age is really like their if a a person might be a child in knowledge or an adult in knowledge that and that has nothing to do with the number on their passport and of course it's not only knowledge but it's also how much how much curiosity do you still have how much childlike um uh willingness to be you know willingness and openness to listen to the people around you do you do you still have because as we adult you know we and and life hits we start deciding this means this this this means this this means this why because not that we're wrong but like because that's what works for us but the point is to still you know to constantly cultivate that uh that's what real is real wisdom is is is the word the ability the ability of what the ability to constantly be asking constantly be curious okay I said that we're going to move quicker and I keep I'm just so used to like doing on videos not like and and and stuff like that okay um yeah so we see from Ab that he was old but he continued to what does it mean that he was coming into his days that every single day still was everything and I'm I just started Abraham Zak very famous lot of on this andm blessed blessed him with everything right God had blessed abam with a son in his old age worthy of becoming his successor and this son was everything to Abraham so he felt deeply responsible for guaranteeing the perpetuation of his line in order to ensure that the Divine mission to which he had dedicated his life would continue okay says Rashi that blessed with everything the word which means everything has the same numerical value as the word Bane son 52 so so what do we mean by hasem blessed him with everything hasm blessed him with a son and since he was blessed with this child he needed to get him married right to continue his legacy so very high praise for this servant elzar he said to his servant elzar the Elder member of his household who was in charge of all that he owned of had serious TR TR in Eleazar and he said to him now despite having trust in him he makes him swear I want you to swear to me in order for this type of oath to take Force the person taking the oath must hold a holy object while swearing uh problem is that at this point in time before the Torah was given there was no holy objects because as much as they our forefathers um through the line of of uh n and specifically shame his son shame the son of and a a grandson would be teaching the Tyra and this is this was the way that people knew what the Commandments were before they were given and people like Abraham chose to fulfill all the Commandments even even so there was no idea of a holy object because there was no way to make the Holiness of The Commandments permeate physicality that only begun to take take place by the giving of the Tera by the official formal giving of the Tera at sin years later so he says tozar that a person to take an oath that I want you to take needs to hold an holy object so it's very interesting there was only one such physical entity that actually had Holiness contained within it and what was that we'll see in a second the only physical object so far that has been Sanctified by virtue of it having been the object of an explicit commandment from God is my reprod RVE organ which he commanded me to circumcise therefore place your hand under my thigh in other words on the reproductive organ for this purpose there was noin there was no Torah scroll there was nothing like that only the bris of Abraham that physical limb became now that physical organ became permeated with Holiness and became the holy object that now could be used for this oath um the as what's the subject of the oath what does he say and I will bind You by an oath to God ever since coming to this land I have been working successfully towards making its inhabitants aware of the existence of God and his involvement in human Affairs right this was AR's mission in their eyes therefore he is now not only the god of heaven but also the god of Earth was teach teaching people even once he got them to believe in God that God is actually intimately involved in our physical human Earthly lives nonetheless they have not yet sufficiently internalized this awareness for it to have changed them for the better in any profound way and it still remains mere lip service for them therefore I adure you not to take a wife or my son from among the daughters of the Canaanites in whose midst I live instead you must go to my former land to the place where my family still lives and take a wife from among them for my son Isaac even though I have been away from my family for 65 years and the distance has prevented me from properly influencing them directly they are nonetheless of the royal firstborn Lion of Shem and have inherited and and have inherited its aristocratic upbringing Noble gentility and family traditions and teachings so does his servant swear to him no at least not yet first the servant gives some push back the servant said to him alzar says perhaps the woman will not wish to follow me to this land should I take your son back to the land from which you departed after all if you prefer that I take away wife for Isaac from among your family members rather than from among the people whom you've whom you have been influencing and living with for the past 65 years then it shouldn't matter where the couple lives afterwards so like instead of sending me to go find a girl who's willing to come back to meet Y and marry him why don't you send me with Y and uh you know I I'll have the the husband to present to her it's a little bit more enticing and it doesn't really matter where they live so long as he marries someone with this kind of upbringing that you're talking about AB said to him absolutely not be most careful not to take my son back there true I would prefer that my future daughter-in-law be of my family's lineage but but that alone doesn't suffice right just because she's from my family and she has that type of upbringing that's not all that I need when she and my son marry they must grow together in a fitting environment which is not to be found anywhere else but here although it's true that the people of this land only pay lip service to God's involvement in human Affairs at least they do that in contrast the people where I used to live consider God only still as the god of the heaven even though I convince them of his existence I didn't succeed in convincing them that he is involved with human Affairs this was how they conceived of God when he took me away from my father's house in and all the more so when he took me away from the land of my family or k him or of the Kites and this is how they still conceive of him moreover God spoke concerning me and even swore to me in the Covenant between the halves saying to your Offspring I will I give this land clearly indicating that my son should remain here in the land of Canan the land of Israel I am therefore confident that he will send his Angel before you to orchestrate events to your advantage in advance in other words elzar was clearly kind of like it seems like he was he wasn't so sure if he'll be so successful or how easy it would be and ab is now telling him I'm sure that Hashem is going to send his Angel before you to Grant you success with his help you will take a wife for my son from there but still Abraham does give in a little bit to elzar's hesitation by saying this despite all this if the woman does not wish to follow you back here then you will be absolved of this oath of mine and may seek a wife for my son from among the daughters of my local Confederates an ashkal and mamre although they are not my relatives they are distinguished leaders and monotheists and this way the couple can remain under my tutelage in the final analysis environment and education are more crucial than pedigree the rebba would stress this very often to people who you know especially when it came to uh marriage and and looking to uh find a husband or a wife for their you know uh a couple's son or daughter and they're looking into the family and looking into the family and looking into the family and trying to find the family that that sits with the other family and that that it works well ultimately what really matters is their the environment that the couple will be in after they get married and their education before and after they get married not their pedigree not you know um who their parents are or what their family is like it matters but that's not that's not all that matters and that isn't the more important of the things that matter in any event do not return my son to there even though I foresee that his son will indeed return there for a time so obviously abam with his R KES was able to see that his grandson Jacob would eventually go there himself but he said my son isn't isn't going there um I didn't read that inside that's the final of today's portion so the servant placed his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master and swore to him regarding this let's see if I skipped any rashis inside um I did indeed a whole bunch okay um so okay that's more linguistic rash why did say make this Oath by placing your hand under my thigh which we said is his reproductive organ he needs a object to do with a Mitzvah to hold on to or and his the circumcision so and obviously his circum his circumcision was the first Mah given to him and it came to him through pain and he cherished it very much so I believe that this means Uno that elazer took it elazer therefore held on to it to make this oath it doesn't say God the god of the Earth but earlier when we were talking about when was saying that the people here where I am I've taught them that it's and it says that I I taught them that that Hashem is involved in human Affairs but when he's talking about the people back in he doesn't say that he says only that he's the god of Heaven over there [Music] right so it's not only as I explained that that taught them that Hashem is involved in human Affairs and in our Earthly material uh existence but also just about how familiar human beings are with Hashem so at that point AB is reminding him that now he's the god of heaven and God of Earth because I've I've made him familiar among Humanity but when my father but but when Hashem took me from my father's house that's when he was known only as the god of Heaven oh yeah [Music] [Applause] from my father's house in other words from from the land of my family or we're just going through all the rashis of of the which we we finished up Su translation inside who spoke to me Lee here means lar for my need or for my benefit like we find in a similar in a similar uh place um well also in the we find another similar wording which he spoke concerning me Allah and likewise every and that follows every word right to speak to me or to him or to them is explained to be about them or about me right and their translation in Aramaic is Allah or Al or Al um the word does not take and as the object but a love a and and their translation in AR is and uhuh however in the case of the verb and are used as the object so when it comes to like it says here in this puzzle who spoke to me it means who spoke about me Etc right that the land of Israel will belong to my descendants so y should stay here um but when it comes to the word Omar then it's not about but it's to right spoke to me or to them or to him me whens out what does it mean when he says that you will be absolved of this oath that I actually have a question on this but um he's saying that then you won't have to find a wife for y from this place rather you could come back here and take a wife for him from the daughters of hhk and mam my Confederates over here and last one Ro but don't bring back my son Ro it's an exclusion my son does not go with you my grandson will eventually go back to that place which was called because it's was a pretty depraved place and uh one that the inhabitants of the inhabitants angered Hashem with their behavior scamming each other all day and uh lots of idol worship all right that's today's KES D oh wow there are some comments on here what do you know thank you everybody for joining