Chayei Sarah

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Parshat Shavua 5782 with weekly guest speaker (Chayei Sara)

Rifki Freundlich

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e-TiM Parshat Shavua 5781 with Rabbi Benjamin Samuels: Parshat Chayei Sara

Rabbi Benjamin Samuels

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Chayei Sarah: Bring Her Home

Rabbi Jay Kelman

“Yitzchak then brought her [Rivka] into the tent of his mother Sarah, and he took Rivka as his wife. Yitzchak loved her, and Yitzchak found comfort after his mother’s death” (Breisheet 24:67). Yitzchak’s marriage to Rivka…
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Chayei Sarah: In Memory of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt"l

Rabbi Jay Kelman

I had the honour of sharing a few words in honour of Rabbi Sacks zt"l at the moving program Mizrachi of Canada organized this week. I share my words below.  I am honoured and unworthy to be asked to say a few words in memory of Rabbi Lord…
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The Haftarot: How to Profit from the Prophets, Parshat Chayei Sara

Dr. Moshe Sokolow

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Chayei Sarah: Growing Old, Staying Young

Rabbi Jay Kelman

"And Sarah lived one hundred years, twenty years and seven years; these are the years of Sarah's life” (Breisheet 23:1). A famous rabbinic comment elucidating the triple expression of years teaches that Sarah maintained her stunning…
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Cries and Whispers: The Akeida and the Death of Sarah

Cries and Whispers: The Akeida and the Death of Sarah
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Chayei Sarah: Mourning for Mother

Rabbi Jay Kelman

"And Abraham said to his servant of the household. I bind you by an oath that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites" (24:2).    Though Yitzchak was approaching forty he had made no apparent…
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Chayei Sarah: Coming Together

Rabbi Jay Kelman

"And Abraham took another wife and her name was Keturah" (Breisheet 25:1). The Torah follows by listing the six children they had together, along with some of their offspring, discusses Abraham's division of his assets--he was, we…
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Chayei Sarah: Like Mom and Dad

Rabbi Jay Kelman

“And Yitzchak brought her to the tent of his mother; and he took Rivka, and she was for him a wife, and he loved her; and Yitzchak was consoled after his mother” (Breisheet 24:67). The contrast between the description above with that of Yaakov…
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