Saturday, November 19, 2022

CHUCK KOLB

 


Shabbat Shalom - Parasha Chayei Sarah - the Legacy of Faith !!!

Previously posted ...
Shabbat Shalom - Parasha Vayera - Receiving the Promises of God in His Timing
https://conpats.blogspot.com/2022/11/chuck-kolb-situation-updates_12.html
Situation WW3 Updates 11/11/22 Veterans Day - Detroit Ballots - Kari Lake -  Unprotected Babies
https://conpats.blogspot.com/2022/11/chuck-kolb_12.html
Never Have Doubt in the Lord - 11/12/22
https://conpats.blogspot.com/2022/11/sermon-never-have-doubt-in-lord.html

Situation WW3 Updates 11/12/22 Maricopa Scum - Oregon Sheriffs - Fear Weapons - Mandates
https://conpats.blogspot.com/2022/11/chuck-kolb-situation-updates_13.html
Situation WW3 Updates 11/13/22 Tiffany Weds - Hyperion - Propaganda - Election Lost - Space Arks
https://conpats.blogspot.com/2022/11/chuck-kolb-situation-updates_14.html
Situation WW3 Updates 11/14/22  Mt. Sinai COP 27 - Globalist Uni Party - Pharma Cide - Maricopa Cabana
https://conpats.blogspot.com/2022/11/chuck-kolb-situation-updates_15.html
Situation WW3 Updates 11/15/22 YUGE President Trump 2024 Campaign - AZ Fraud - Poland NATO
https://conpats.blogspot.com/2022/11/chuck-kolb-situation-updates_16.html
Situation WW3 Updates 11/16/22 UKR Money Funnel - Bioweapon Blood - No Proof Polish Prez
https://conpats.blogspot.com/2022/11/chuck-kolb-situation-updates_17.html
Situation WW3 Updates 11/17/22 Pubs Win House - Investigate Aliens - EMP Affects - Shadowland
https://conpats.blogspot.com/2022/11/chuck-kolb-situation-updates_67.html
 
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world
ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. John 16:33
Blessed are those servants whom the master finds on watch when he returns. Luke 12:37
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. Eph 5:11
I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments. I will never forget thy precepts:
for with them thou hast quickened me. Psalm 119:60,93
The war against Truth has been raging ever since
evil was expulsed from the realm of Heaven.  
God instructed Pharaoh, "Let my people go."
God instructs us, "Let my people know."
Shema Y'israel - Maranatha !
Na'aseh V'nishma  

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כבוד שם יהוה Baruch Hashem Adonai   
לשבור לחם ביחד Shabbat Shalom Mishpacha

#ShabbatShalom - Welcome to this week’s Torah study, which is called Chayei Sarah (Life of Sarah). Please join with us as we study the portion of Scripture that will be read in synagogues around the world this Shabbat (Saturday).  We know you will be blessed by this Parasha (Torah portion) as it highlights how we can live worthy of leaving a legacy for future generations.

Last week’s Parasha (Vayera) ended with Abraham’s ultimate test — the binding and near sacrifice of his beloved son, Isaac (Yitzchak); but God provided an adult male ram for a sacrifice instead.  One must wonder what went through the mind of Isaac’s mother, Sarah. Although the title of this week’s Parasha, Chayei Sarah (חַיֵּי שָׂרָה), means Life of Sarah, it initially focuses on her death.  This corresponds with the Judaic thought that the awareness of death gives more meaning to life. Sarah dies in Kiryat Arba, and her funeral is the first to be recorded in the Torah. Sarah dies in Kiryat Arba, and her funeral is the first to be recorded in the Torah.

You can view this Parasha on our website complete with embedded links ...
Parasha Chayei Sarah (Life of Sarah): Leaving a Legacy of Radical Faith

https://free.messianicbible.com/parasha/parasha-chayei-sarah-life-of-sarah-leaving-a-legacy-of-radical-faith-5783/

Holy, Holy, Holy Is the Lord of Hosts – YHVH Sabaoth
https://free.messianicbible.com/feature/holy-holy-holy-lord-hosts-yhvh-sabaoth/

God Wants to Set You Free! Find Out How
https://free.messianicbible.com/feature/god-wants-set-free-find/
Do You Have the Faith Yeshua Is Looking For? A Hebraic Perspective
https://free.messianicbible.com/feature/faith-yeshua-jewish/
Reasons to Sound the Shofar
https://free.messianicbible.com/holiday/rosh-hashanah-blow-trumpet-shofar-zion/
No One Else Brings Salvation but Yeshua
https://free.messianicbible.com/feature/one-else-brings-salvation-yeshua/
Are You a Jew? The Answer Might Surprise You
https://free.messianicbible.com/feature/are-you-a-jew-fname-the-answer-might-surprise-you/ 


Revelation and Na'aseh V'nishma
https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/11880
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/do-first-understand-later/
We will do and we will listen to all that God has declared. Exodus 24:7


When to Celebrate Yeshua HaMashiach's birthday ...
The Joy of Tabernacles when Yeshua was Born

http://conpats.blogspot.com/2019/10/chuck-kolb-10142019.html
How Yeshua was born on the Feast of Tabernacles by Rabbi Yitzchak
http://www.calledoutbelievers.org/how-yeshua-was-born-on-the-feast-of-tabernacles/

English to Hebrew to English lookup
https://context.reverso.net/translation/hebrew-english/
https://www.doitinhebrew.com/Translate/default.aspx
https://english-hebrew-dictionary.com/
https://alittlehebrew.com/transliterate/  
https://yiddishkeit101.wordpress.com/category/hebrew-word-of-the-day 
The Best Jewish Words You Need To Know: A Yiddish and Hebrew Glossary
https://www.joyofkosher.com/from-jamie/the-best-jewish-words-you-need-to-know/
https://www.brighthubeducation.com/studying-a-language/58611-yiddish-expressions-for-the-holidays/
https://hebrew4christians.com/Glossary/glossary.html
A Living Library of Jewish Texts in Hebrew and English translation
https://www.sefaria.org/   https://dictionary.co.il/   https://www.hebrew-verbs.co.il/
https://www.mechon-mamre.org/

Torah Teasers Parshat Chayei Sarah by Moshe Erlbaum
https://www.aish.com/tp/i/teasers/127-Years.html

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Todah Rabah - beloved Rabbi Ralph Messer ...
Simchat Torah Beit Midrash - Joy of God’s Teaching and Instruction

All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine,
for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.  2 Timothy 3:16

What Does It Mean to Choose Life? Every decision you make can be made in a way that you are “choosing life.”
The Torah is God’s constitution; it is His teaching and instruction; it is eternal and it is life.
His Spirit is pure Light, abundant with untouchable, supreme, sovereign power.
God is the Source of all life.
 
חַיֵּי שָׂרָה  Chayei Sarah means “Sarah’s Lifetime.” 
It is the only section in the Torah which is named after a Matriarch—Sarah. Midrash HaGadol (a compilation of commentaries on the Torah, originating from Yemen) states: Why does the Torah split up the tally of her years into three parts (“one hundred years,” “twenty years” and “seven years”)? To tell us that every day of her life was the equivalent of them all. At the age of one hundred years she was like age twenty in strength, and at age twenty she was like age seven in modesty and purity; at age seven she was like age twenty in intelligence, and at age twenty she was like age one hundred in righteousness.
https://stbm.org/chayei-sarah/

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Todah Rabah - Dr. Gary Hedrick ..
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Reaching the Jewish people with the Gospel
https://www.cjfm.org/about-us/who-we-are/history/
Charles Halff - What It Costs a Jew to Become a Christian
https://store.cjfm.org/product/146/what-it-costs-a-jew-to-become-a-christian

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Todah Rabah - beloved Rabbi Chaim Richman ...

Weekly Torah Study: with Rav Gedalia Meyer
Temple Talk with Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Abba Horovitz
https://www.youtube.com/c/TheTempleInstitute/videos
https://www.facebook.com/The-Temple-Institute-22738684968/
https://www.instagram.com/thetempleinstitute/ - https://twitter.com/TempleInstitute
https://www.templeinstitute.org/ Weekly Newsletter - 36 years  
The Mystery of the Red Heifer: Divine Promise of Purity
https://templeinstitute.org/red-heifer/
Temple Talk Radio: The Red Heifers Have Arrived!
vid> https://youtu.be/dbrCt9h8r2o (34:58) 9/20/22

Jerusalem Lights - Rabbi Chaim Richman

https://www.youtube.com/c/JerusalemLightsRabbiChaimRichman/videos

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Todah Rabah - beloved Rabbi Chaim Jachter ...
Kol Torah Academy of Bergen County 
Parashat Chayei Sarah - Cheshvan 25, 5783 - November 19, 2022

https://www.koltorah.org/articles/?category=Chayei%20Sarah
https://www.koltorah.org/by-parashah  https://www.koltorah.org/parashah
https://www.koltorah.org/rav-jachters-halachah-files
https://www.koltorah.org/about-us > https://www.koltorah.org/books
Rabbi Jachter on JM in the AM with Nachum Segal talking about his book
mp3> Bridging Traditions: Demystifying Differences Between Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jews! (23:59)

https://nachumsegal.com/nachum-and-rabbi-haim-jachter-explore-bridging-traditions-on-jm-in-the-am/
Yeshiva > https://www.tabc.org/  https://www.instagram.com/koltorah.tabc/
Parashat Chayei Sarah
https://www.koltorah.org/s/Kol-Torah-Chayei-Sarah-2022.pdf (4 page pdf)

Does the Torah Reject Democracy? > Rabbi Chaim Jachter
https://www.koltorah.org/halachah/does-the-torah-reject-democracy-by-rabbi-chaim-jachter

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Parshat Chayei Sarah

https://www.chabad.org/parshah/article_cdo/aid/3174/jewish/Chayei-Sarah-in-a-Nutshell.htm
http://www.chabad.org/parshah/default.asp?tDate=11/19/2022  
https://www.chabad.org/calendar/view/month_cdo/jewish/Jewish-Calendar.htm
https://www.chabad.org/calendar/converter_cdo/aid/6225/jewish/Jewish-Hebrew-Date-Converter.htm
 
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Todah Rabah - beloved Rabbi Naphtali “Tuly” Weisz ...   

https://israel365.com/  https://www.israel365news.com/
https://www.israel365.com/about/  https://theisraelbible.com/
https://theisraelbible.com/bible/torah/  https://theisraelbible.com/blog/

The Portion of Chayei Sarah
https://theisraelbible.com/portion-chayei-sarah/
https://theisraelbible.com/bible/genesis/  
 
Machpelah: More Than Just a Cave

https://theisraelbible.com/machpelah-more-than-just-a-cave/

Euphrates River drying up: Fulfilling Jeremiah’s prophecy?
The region, once known as the Fertile Crescent, is on the verge of a food crisis as
the main sources of water disappear. Officials struggle to cope as a prophetic scenario appears.
https://www.israel365news.com/359916/euphrates-river-drying-up-fulfilling-jeremiahs-prophecy/

The 39 Acts Forbidden on the Sabbath
https://theisraelbible.com/the-39-acts-forbidden-on-the-sabbath/
https://theisraelbible.com/the-true-day-of-rest/

Anti-Semitism is on the rise in the United States.

Stand with 100,000+ people who stand with Israel.
https://www.israel365.com/the-israel-covenant/

ACLJ Petition - Jay Sekulow
Stop Biden IRS From Spying on You and Your Bank Account
https://aclj.org/government-corruption/stop-biden-irs-from-spying-on-your-bank-account

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DONALD DATES
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Trump
Frederick Christ Trump (Drumpf) 10/11/1905
Mary Anne Trump née MacLeod 5/10/1912
Donald, Jr. 12/31/77
Eric 1/6/84
Jared Kushner 1/10/81

President Donald J. Trump Makes Special Announcement at Mar-a-Lago - 11/15/22
vid> https://rumble.com/v1urrhw-full-speech-president-donald-j.-trump-makes-special-announcement-at-mar-a-l.html (1:08:37) RSBN
Events > https://www.donaldjtrump.com/events
Watch > https://rumble.com/c/RSBN RSBN  
https://rumble.com/c/DonaldTrump Donald J. Trump

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Good News From Israel - Achievements and Heartwarming Stories
In the 13th Nov 22 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:
https://verygoodnewsisrael.blogspot.com/2022/11/israels-good-news-newsletter-to-13th.html
http://verygoodnewsisrael.blogspot.com/

Mishpacha Jewish Family Weekly
https://mishpacha.com/

Wave of the Future
As the midterm fiasco convulses the GOP,
can a buoyant DeSantis power past Donald Trump?
Donald Trump was busy with even bigger things.
https://mishpacha.com/wave-of-the-future/

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Todah Rabah - beloved Ted Belman writing from Jerusalem, Israel for 21+ years ...  
THERE IS NO DIPLOMATIC SOLUTION
https://www.israpundit.org/  
Israel should declare three nos;  no to nuclear Iran, no to two-state solution,
no to bi-national state  

U.S. Political Corruption Leads to Ukraine Money Laundering Scheme and Ukrainian Nazis
https://www.israpundit.org/u-s-political-corruption-leads-to-ukraine-money-laundering-scheme-and-ukrainian-nazis/
https://canadafreepress.com/article/u.s-political-corruption-leads-to-ukraine-money-laundering-scheme-and-ukrainian-nazis

Kari Lake Issues 1st Major Update in Arizona Since Hobbs Declared Victory
https://www.israpundit.org/lake-issues-1st-major-update-in-arizona-since-hobbs-declared-victory/

How the Game is Fixed
https://www.israpundit.org/how-the-game-is-fixed/
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/11/how_the_game_is_fixed.html

False hysteria over Israeli democracy
Progressive critics, take note: the US system at its core is not
a pure democracy at all, but a constitutional republic.
https://www.israpundit.org/false-hysteria-over-israeli-democracy/
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/362944

The Two State Solution is no more
>> https://www.israpundit.org/63684392-2/
The Jordan Option Conference Videos reposted
>> https://www.israpundit.org/the-jordan-option-conference-videos/
https://www.israpundit.org/jordan-past-present-and-future-the-jordan-option-revisited/
>> The Jordan Option, plain and simple
https://www.israpundit.org/the-jordan-option-plain-and-simple/
>> The Jordanian Option is the only game in town
https://www.israpundit.org/my-jordan-option-is-the-only-game-in-town/
>> The Ultimate Alternate Israel-Palestine Solution by Ted Belman
https://www.israpundit.org/the-ultimate-alternate-israel-palestine-solution-3/

Kindly donate to support the work I do
by Ted Belman
https://www.israpundit.org/please-donate/

 
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Quest For The Lost Tribes - Full Simcha Jacobovici Documentary
vid> https://www.bitchute.com/video/jbB2ELq4xPw/ (1:33:29) 8/18/19
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simcha_Jacobovici
12 Tribes of Israel: The Shevatim

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/3798842/jewish/12-Tribes-of-Israel-The-Shevatim.htm
https://www.jewishvoice.org/read/blog/who-are-tribes-judah

Welcome to Kashrut Malchut Shamayim

In Parsha Chayei Sarah,
Abraham sends his servant Eliezer to find a bride for Isaac.   Eliezer consecrates the auspicious meeting of Rebecca by giving her rings and bracelets and offering delicious fruits to her brother and mother. To celebrate this happy occasion, we enjoy fruits and rings in this week's Shabbat menu.
https://jamiegeller.com/holidays/a-fruitful-shabbat-menu/
 
10 Tips For Hosting Thanksgiving
https://jamiegeller.com/holidays/10-tips-for-hosting-thanksgiving/

Turkey for Two
https://jamiegeller.com/recipes/cider-braised-turkey-drumsticks/

Perfect Pecan Pie
In our family we don’t just make pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving.
https://jamiegeller.com/recipes/perfect-pecan-pie/

26 Pareve (Non-Dairy) Thanksgiving Desserts
https://jamiegeller.com/holidays/pareve-thanksgiving-desserts/

Jews Invented Pita - JewLish
https://aish.com/how-jews-invented-pita/?acid=03681dc1df4f1201b58364c660587946
https://aish.com/six-facts-about-challah/

A little spice on the side
https://jamiegeller.com/recipes/dirty-cajun-rice/

Vegan Mac and Cheese
https://jamiegeller.com/recipes/soy-macaroni-and-cheese-with-vegetable-shells/

Vegan Recipes
https://jamiegeller.com/search?query=vegan+recipes  
https://jamiegeller.com/browse/the-best-crowd-pleasing-vegan-appetizers/
Cook the 21 Most Popular Recipes of 2021
https://jamiegeller.com/from-jamie/cook-the-21-most-popular-recipes-of-2021/

This is Where You Can Find Me Most of the Time
JewLish - One People - Many Flavors
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Joy of Aliyah 
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https://jamiegeller.com/tag/joyofisrael/
Jamie Geller Welcome's You
vid> https://youtu.be/XO-owES713c (0:35)
Lots of 💕 Jamie - Until next week Shabbat Shalom from Israel ! 
 
The answer is, it's made with love from Israel ! 
https://jamiegeller.com/from-jamie/my-jewish-food-memories/
My Love Affair With Jerusalem
https://jamiegeller.com/from-jamie/my-love-affair-with-jerusalem/

Jamie's Honey Collection
https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/779DC156-2368-4FA4-A098-872BBC7F03D2

Jerusalem Street Food with Jamie Geller Spices
vid> https://cdn.jwplayer.com/players/CluuvDpk-FSMnt4zj.html (10:56) JewLish   
Machane Yehuda - https://jamiegeller.com/browse/a-haute-market-in-jerusalem-the-shuk/
https://jamiegeller.com/browse/4-israeli-desserts-inspired-by-the-shuk-in-jerusalem/

The Jamie Geller Spice Collection: Now Available Worldwide!
Sending you love and my heartfelt wishes for peace, from Israel.
New Trio of Pilaf Mixes - Mujadara Lentil, Festive Herb and Jeweled Almond
https://www.amazon.com/stores/Jamie+Geller/page/55E36343-CF6F-4E88-A4D5-D7C1C0274F7F
https://www.amazon.com/shop/jamiegeller  

Babies, Books, and a Billion Views: My Decade in Review
https://jamiegeller.com/from-jamie/a-decade-in-review/

Best of the Best w Hubby - Family Heirloom Cholent ...
vid> https://youtu.be/Ae2-lQVFsGw (12:01) 8/11/11 JG classic
https://jamiegeller.com/recipes/family-heirloom-chulent/
https://jamiegeller.com/blogs/cholent/

Jamie at Aish - Chief Media & Marketing Officer
https://www.aish.com/authors/48868432.html
How You Can Make the Future Brighter
vid> https://youtu.be/fclstyB-1rA (2:48) Aish
https://www.youtube.com/c/Aishdotcom/videos

Free Hebrew course Aleph Bet
This entire four-lesson course in 30 minutes.
https://academy.aish.com/course/aleph-bet

The Influence of the Hebrew Bible on America's Founding Fathers
vid> https://youtu.be/jE6Sqh-kezw (7:15) J-TV
https://www.aish.com/jl/h/h/The-Influence-of-the-Hebrew-Bible-on-Americas-Founding.html
Serpents of Desire: Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden. An Introduction
https://www.aish.com/jl/b/eb/ge/48966101.html

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https://jamiegeller.com/author/jamie-geller/
Tamar Genger MA, RD
https://jamiegeller.com/author/tgenger/
Titles by Jamie Geller

https://www.amazon.com/Jamie-Geller/e/B001JS2GV8/
https://jamiegeller.com/blogs/
Farmers-Guide-for-Produce (7 page pdf)
https://tinyurl.com/Farmers-Guide-for-Produce
http://supportourfarmers.org
Download the Sweeter Than Honey eBook
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LIVE Series: FEED YOUR SOUL
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And the life of Sarah [Chayei Sarah חַיֵּי שָׂרָה] was a hundred and seven and twenty years; these were the years of the life of Sarah.
Genesis 23:1


Shabbat Shalom - Parasha Chayei Sarah - the Legacy of Faith !!!

The Hebrew words of the Torah scroll is usually read using a Torah pointer called a yad (hand).
 
Shabbat Shalom
 
Welcome to this week’s Torah study, which is called
Chayei Sarah
 (Life of Sarah).
 
Please join with us as we study the portion of Scripture that will be read in synagogues around the world this Shabbat (Saturday).  We know you will be blessed by this Parasha (Torah portion) as it highlights how we can live worthy of leaving a legacy for future generations.
 
CHAYEI SARAH (Life of Sarah)
Genesis 23:1–25:18; 1 Kings 1:1–31; 1 Peter 3:1–7
 
“And the life of Sarah [Chayei Sarah] was a hundred and seven and twenty years; these were the years of the life of Sarah.”  (Genesis 23:1)
 
Although the title of this week’s Parasha, Chayei Sarah (חַיֵּי שָׂרָה), means Life of Sarah, it initially focuses on her death.  This corresponds with the Judaic thought that the awareness of death gives more meaning to life.
 
Sarah is the only woman in the Bible to have a Parasha named after her.  What an honor!  All the other Biblical characters that Parashot are named after are men:  Balak, Pinchas, Korach, Noach and Yitro.  This underscores how important the matriarch Sarah is to our faith.
 
Sarah dies in Kiryat Arba, and her funeral is the first to be recorded in the Torah.
 

Sarah is buried in the Tomb of the Patriarchs (Ma'arat HaMachpelah), the
second holiest place in Judaism after the Temple Mount.  This burial
place, in which the fathers and mothers of the Jewish faith are buried, is
located in Hebron.  In Parasha Chayei Sarah, Abraham purchases this
land for the full asking price.
 
Last week’s Parasha (Vayera) ended with Abraham’s ultimate test — the binding and near sacrifice of his beloved son, Isaac (Yitzchak); but God provided an adult male ram for a sacrifice instead.  One must wonder what went through the mind of Isaac’s mother, Sarah.
 
Did she even know for what purpose Abraham departed with their son?  Did she worry that her joy — her reason for laughter — Yitzchak — may not return home alive to her?
 
Scripture does not address this; however, in the Brit Chadashah (New Testament), we do read of Sarah’s radical obedience to her husband as an example of faith and courage that women of God are encouraged to emulate:
 
“For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to adorn themselves.  They submitted themselves to their own husbands, like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her lord.  You are her daughters if you do what is right and do not give way to fear.”  (1 Peter 3:5–6)
 

A Jewish woman buries her face in her siddur
(prayer book) as she prays at the Western
(Wailing) Wall in Jerusalem.

Sarah demonstrated this radical obedience to her husband — first by leaving everything behind, including her home and family, to follow Abraham to a new land.  She did not know where they were going and had to live inside a tent in the desert like a stranger.
 
In order to protect her husband, she even agreed twice to enter a foreign king’s harem where she could have potentially been greatly harmed and defiled.  Still, even in this, she obeyed her husband.
 
God rewarded Sarah’s obedience and did indeed rescue her from Pharaoh's and King Abimilech’s harems.  Clearly it was God who did not allow the King of Gerar to touch Sarah:
 
“And God said to him in a dream, Yes, I know that you did this in the integrity of your heart.  For I also withheld you from sinning against Me; therefore I did not let you touch her.’”  (Genesis 20:6)
 

Jewish women pray at the Western (Wailing) Wall in Jerusalem.
 
There is only one way that Sarah could have walked in such radical obedience — and that is through absolute faith and trust in God.  She may not have trusted her imperfect husband who was willing to sacrifice his wife to save his own skin, but she trusted God to protect and preserve her from all evil.
 
Many believe that Sarah lacked faith when she gave her servant Hagar to Abraham in order to raise up children for him.  Jewish tradition, however, holds that Sarah was convinced that God would be true to His promise to bring forth nations through Abraham, and that she was acting in faith.
 
Hagar was not just any servant, either.  Sarah personally trained her in faith.  Moreover, it is quite possible that she was Pharaoh's daughter.
 
The fact that Hagar conceived (and Sarah did not) caused Hagar to think that she was more spiritual and, therefore, more blessed than Sarah.  In her pride, she exalted herself over Sarah.
 
When the three angels visited Abraham, Sarah understood that the child of promise would come through her.
 

Abraham, Sarah, and the Angel (1520s), by Jan Provoost

Bearing Fruit in Our Latter Years
“They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be vigorous and flourishing.”  (Psalm 92:14)
 
Sarah gave birth to Yitzhak (Isaac) at 90 years of age.
 
This shows us that we are not expected to idly sit in our rocking chairs as we reach our golden years; we can remain vital and active.
 
Both Abraham and Sarah achieved significant accomplishments, not in their youth, but in the last years of their life.
 
This is in keeping with an old Jewish saying:  “At 40 one is fit for discernment, at 50 for counsel, at 80 for special strength.”
 
Caleb is an example of this.  He was one of only two people out of a generation of millions to enter the Promised Land, and he asked for a mountain to conquer at 85-years-old!
 
“And now, here I am this day, eighty-five years old.  As yet I am as strong this day as on the day that Moses sent me; just as my strength was then, so now is my strength for war, both for going out and for coming in.  Now therefore, give me this mountain of which the Lord spoke in that day.”  (Joshua 14:1012)
 

An Israeli grandmother teaches her grandchildren how to
bake cookies.
 
Although it has become politically incorrect to ask a woman her age, Scripture does not hesitate to reveal Sarah’s age at her death.
 
The numerical value of the opening term of this Parasha (vayih’yu [וַיִּהְיוּ֙] and was) adds up to the sum of 37, which is the same as the difference between the age of Sarah when she gave birth to Isaac at 90 years old and her death at 127.
 
These 37 years were surely some of the best years of Sarah’s life as she raised the child that she and Abraham had hoped and prayed for most of their adult lives.
 
The Torah shows Sarah as her husband’s partner in life and his equal.  In Jewish oral tradition, they are both considered to have been excellent teachers in their own right, with Sarah teaching the women and Abraham teaching the men.
 
She completely shared Abraham’s journey with God in a spirit of faith, courage, and if necessary, self-sacrifice.
 
She endured being uprooted from her native land, being barren (considered a curse in Middle Eastern culture) until the age of 90, being held captive, and being exposed to the advances of foreign kings (twice).
 
Through it all, she remained faithful to God, to her husband, and to her calling.
 

Carrying the Torah scroll
 
Obviously, Sarah was a beautiful woman.  So beautiful, in fact, that Abraham resorted to calling her his sister to protect himself from the gangs of marauding soldiers who might be tempted to kill him in order to take his wife.
 
Even though Sarah was, in fact, his half-sister, this still did not justify the deception that put his wife’s honor at risk.  How did Sarah endure so many difficult trials in her lifetime?
 
It was through her optimism and inner tranquility that comes only with faith in God that Sarah was able to deal with such adversity.  This was likely part of her appeal and power.
 
The Bible tells us that we have need of endurance also:
“For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.”  (Hebrews 10:36)
 

The Egyptians Admire Sarai's Beauty, by James Tissot
 
Behind Every Great Man
“Who can find a virtuous wife [eshet chayil]?  For her worth is far above rubies.  The heart of her husband safely trusts her; so he will have no lack of gain.“  (Proverbs 31:10–11)
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