Light from the Future: Parshas Chayei Sarah

1. Chayei Sarah – A Chain Reaction Ii In this week’s parsha, Eliezer, the servant of the Patriarch Abraham, is sent on a mission to Charan to find a suitable wife for his master’s son,…
2. Chayei Sarah – A Taste of Infinity Whereas in the present day and age we experience intermittent spurts of growth and a taste of infinity, in the future Messianic Age infinite growth…
3. Chayei Sarah – Always Ready Mincha takes place smack in middle of the work day. We have neither the luxury of the preparation of Shacharis nor the detachment of Ma’ariv. Our…
4. Chayei Sarah – Chain Reaction I The Torah’s seemingly prosaic term “And he said” was part of the most important chain of events. It linked the beginning of civilization to its end;…
5. Chayei Sarah – Get a Life Judaism – for all of its great thinkers and theoreticians – would have gotten nowhere without the Sarah’s of the Jewish community who devoted their…
6. Chayei Sarah – Geulah and Women While the men think and talk about the imminence of Geulah, women will make it happen. For men, Moshiach and Geulah are real concepts and real ideas.…
7. Chayei Sarah – Go East In recent decades, many Jews have returned to Judaism, ironically, through exposure to Eastern mysticism. Many Jews who have lost their appreciation…
8. Chayei Sarah – Instant Gratification Our prayers are replete with requests for G-d to bring an end to suffering and misery; and end to the exile. These prayers are punctuated with an…
9. Chayei Sarah – Opportunism When you see someone who is filled with a passion for something, instead of knocking it and trying to suppress it, be an opportunist and use that love…
10. Chayei Sarah – Purim in Cheshvan? Our Sages declare, “Moses is the first redeemer and Moses will be the final redeemer.” This does not mean that Moses and Moshiach are the same person.…
11. Chayei Sarah – Reversing Roles: Two Eulogies Sarah’s inability to digest the loss of Isaac was more than just a motherly instinct. It was also a product of her utter devotion to the future of the…
12. Chayei Sarah – Speak Little and Finish the Job We are now standing on the cusp of the Final Redemption. It behoove us to remember that what is most important now is finishing the task and bringing…
13. Chayei Sarah – The Cosmic Marriage A marriage is not merely a contract between two parties. Besides all the legalities that a marriage involves—financial support, etc.—it is the act by…
14. Chayei Sarah – The Fountain of Youth & a Tale of Two Horses Sarah’s passing is reported briefly in the beginning of this week’s parsha in the following manner: “And these were the days of Sarah, one hundred…
15. Chayei Sarah – The Same Old New Stories Our unparalleled history of devotion and sacrifice is testimony to the greatness of our fathers and mothers. Every time we perform a Mitzvah it not…
16. Chayei Sarah – The Search and Discovery of Marriage Marriage, according to the Zohar, is the reunion of two half souls which were separated at birth. Marriage thus is discovery of another person, a…
17. Chayei Sarah – The Test Pro-active compassion is where one cannot bear to keep the resources they possess for themselves. A truly kind and compassionate person’s need to…
18. Chayei Sarah – The Veil To ensure that the Shabbos is hermetically sealed off from the rest of the week, the woman who lights the Shabbos candles hides behind a veil of…
19. Chayei Sarah – Torah: The Link to the Past and Future When we appreciate the stories of the Torah, particularly the miracles of the Patriarchs that are highlighted in the narrative of Eliezer the servant…
20. Chayei Sarah – Vision, Mastery and Perception The power of Sarah and of all women is to concretize the ideals of Abraham. Abraham’s bequeathing everything he owned to Isaac was a result of Sarah’s…
21. Chayei Sarah – Welcome Back Abraham’s influence did not go to waste. His father Terach and his son Yishmael did return to Abraham’s ways. Hagar too did eventually return to…
22. Chayei Sarah – Women's Role in Judaism Judaism is multifaceted. If we would want to reduce all of Judaism’s goals into just a few categories, it can be said that its objective is threefold.…

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