Cavern of the Patriarchs

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Yesterday we discussed the acquisition of Maratha Machpelah and all of the interesting, the intrigue that went on in those negotiations that the text highlights but that most people don't catch.

You have to really...

I mean, we understand it very well because it's part of our culture.

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If God promised Abraham, next question, if God promised Abraham the entire land of Israel, why did he have to purchase the cave of Machpelah for 400 silver shekel? He already owned technically the land that Hashem gave to him.

So here, this is where Mepharshim, the commentaries, and especially Balei Niglet that talk about this, that the promise to Avraham was a promise.

And yes, indeed, he did walk through the land.

And he charged them, this is Jacob speaking, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people, bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite.

In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for possession of a burying place.

There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife, there they buried Isaac and Rebecca his wife, and there I buried Leah." Chapter 50 now.

And forty days were fulfilled for him, for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed.

which is beyond Jordan.

And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them.

For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for possession of a burying place of Ephron the Hittite before Mamre.

Joseph returned into Egypt, he and his brethren and all that went with him to bury his father after he had buried his father.

Join me as we learn chitas together for Monday parashat Chai Yisra, chapter 23, verse 17.

At Yochimste Efrain, yesterday we learned about where Avraham purchases the field of the Machpelah and the cave that's in it to be able to bury Sarah, and he buys it for 400 top dollar coins from Efrain.

The Torah now continues and telling us, continuing that story.

which faced at the time the plains of Mamre, the field and the cave that was in it, and every tree in its perimeter, that was in the field, in its all boundaries, confirmed that this was all part of the purchase.

What does it mean in all the people who came to the gates of the city? So everybody saw the purchase.

Nobody is able to dispute the transaction.

Verse 19. once Avram now purchased the cave, it was completely his, he was then able to then cover Avram, he buried Avram, buried Sarah, his wife, in the cave of the field of the Machpelah, which faced the plains of Mamre, that is, in the land of Canaan.

Rashi, next one, Verse 20.

And that's the concept of kinion in general.

Obviously, buying the Marsa Machpelah, which is a kinion, but also it says, It's also a kinion, it's a type of kinion.

And then, of course, the Kinyon of Kedushim.

So they're all next to each other.

So let's go to Genesis 23 and start reading.

Now a front field that is in Machpelah next to Mamre The field and the cave that is in it, and all the trees that are in the field and all its surrounding territory, was handed over to Abraham as a purchased possession in the eyes of the sons of Heth, before all those who entered the gate of his city.

Afterward Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah next to Mamre, that is Hebron, in the land of Canaan.

So the field and the cave that was in it were handed over to Abraham as a grave site from the sons of Heth.

Now Abraham was old, advanced in years, and the Lord blessed Abraham in everything that Then Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his household, who managed everything that belonged to him, Now put your hand under my thigh, so that I may make you take an oath by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from among the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am dwelling.

So let's go to Genesis 23 and start reading.

Now a frond's field that is in Machpelah next to Mamre The field and the cave that is in it, and all the trees that are in the field and all its surrounding territory, was handed over to Abraham as a purchased possession in the eyes of the sons of Heth, before all those who entered the gate of his city.

Afterward, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah next to Mamre, that is, Hebron, in the land of Canaan.

So the field and the cave that was in it were handed over to Abraham as a gravesite from the sons of Heth.

Now Abraham was old, advanced in years, and the Lord blessed Abraham in everything.

Abraham, her husband, goes ahead looking for a burial plot.

He buys for 400 shekel a plot in the Ma'aret HaMachpelah, the Machpelah cave in Hebron, which till today we go visit.

And then it continues about the search for a shidduch, for a soulmate, for Isaac, her son.

All events, posthumous events, posthumously everything that happened after her passing.