Chayei Sarah

Parashas Chayei Sarah

Genesis 23:1 – 25:18

Please Pray this

Prayer before reading

In the name of Yahushua

Our Messiyah,

I pray for the Spirit of Understanding

The Spirit pf Knowledge and

The Spirit of Wisdom

As I read through this Parasha

That the Truth of the Torah may

Come forth. Amen

This Torah portion is the 5^th in the cycle it is called Chayei Sarah meaning  “the life of Sarah.” In the previous Parashas, we learn about the binding of Isaac. This Midrash tells us that  Abraham did not tell Sarah that he was going to sacrifice Isaac. When Sarah learned that Abraham was about to sacrifice their son, she died of grief.

This however does not make any spiritual sense. Someone of Sarah’s spiritual maturity would have obviously understand that her husband would never do anything that the CREATOR did not ordained. She would have understood that that something beyond the physical event was taking place, something of great spiritual significance.

This Parashas is telling us not to interpret this and other stories in Torah in a leteral way. In fact, Sarah might have known that Isaac was not going to die, since he was the promise seed. She knew that a tremendous Light was about to be revealed at Mount Moriah, the site where the Temple would eventually be built.

As Sarah represent the flesh, the flesh had to die, and we learn that she did die in this Parasha. In order for the Spirit to prosper, the flesh have to die, Abraham the spirit prosper by sacrificing the Soul “Isaac” the product of both the Spirit and the flesh. It was this Sacrifice by the Spirit that the CREATOR find great favor in.

The binding of Isaac by Abraham, is the binding of the Soul by the Spirit, with the exclusion of the flesh, Sarah. There is a reason why Torah  says that Sarah died in Kiryat Arba, which literally means the Town of the Four. She died with a complete connection to the Name of YAHVEH “יהוה”. Sarah the flesh achieved total connection by relinquishing all selfish attachments in her relationship with other people, she freed herself of the desire to receive for the self alone.

Sarah is the only matriarch whose death, funeral, and burial place spark the kind of debate we see in this Parashas, underscoring her spiritual significance. This Parashas also goes into considerable length to describe the process by which Isaa’s wife Rebecca, was selected. The man who conducted that process on behalf of Abraham the Spirit was his closest and most brilliant student. According to the Parashas, his name is Dammeseq Eliezer, which means Eliezar from Damascus.

Not only was Eliezer able to understand the wisdom of Kabbalah, he was also capable of conveying it to other people. Many students throughout history have had this ability, such student such a those of the Greatest Kabbalah of them all Messiyah Yahushua. In the case of Eliezer, we find someone who attained a level of wisdom far beyond what we can ever imagine today.

The Torah says that Eliezer traveled to a city of Nahor, where Rebecca lived, and asked ABBA YAHVEH to give him a sign to identify a future wife for Abraham’s son, Issac. The Torah devote many words to this narrative, but it repeats them when Eliezer recounts the event in detail for Rebecca’s family.

Since we knew that the Torah is very intentional in its use of words, there is no wastage of words in it. In reply to this statement, greater are the words of the stories of the servants of the patriarchs than is the study of their children.

When Eliezer went to Nahor to find a wife for Isaac, he carried a signifant amount of wealth to redeemed a wife, but when Eliezer introduced himself to Rebercca and her family, he did so saying ‘Eved Avraham anochi’ I am the servant of Abraham. He could have introduced himself as Abraham’s closest friend or as his most promising student, which would have been equally true. He chose to describe himself as eved Avraham, the servant of Abraham.

WE know that the purpose of life is to transform our Desire to Receive to the Desire to Share. We can share by helping another person, or we can share at an even higher spiritual level by sharing as a servant. When the Torah describe the great heights that Moses achieved spiritually, the words used to are “Moshe Avdi” or Moses MY servant.

When we no longer feel that we have a choice about whether to give or not to give, our consciousness become that of a servant, not in the sense of lowering ourselves, but in the sense of elevating ourselves spiritually.

As we strive to understand how this works in everyday life, we need to differentiate between being a servant and being a victim. There are many people who give to their children, spouse, or friends, because they feel obligated to do so, even when they do not like what they are doing; they are victims of sharing. There is no need for them to be servants, yet they choose to take on the role. This is the way to the highest level of the soul. In order to grew this  consciousness in our Ego, we have to use it every day, which in this case meant the effort to give regardless of the feeling.

      

Many of us share, but how many of us share with the Ego of a servant? I believe that if we are truly honest with ourselves, our answer would be almost never. It is possible that anyone of us will attain this level of Spiritual maturity today, but by awakening a desire for it, we are taking an all important first or even second step, depending on what day of Creation we are experiencing.

Like  Eliezer an Rebecca in the Parasha of Chayei Sarah, we can achieved continuous growth in our connection to the Light of the CREATOR. We can achieve the elevated spirit of Sarah, the flesh, the women who chose to leave the influence of her body, that selfish desire, when she wanted something more important. The attend the unveiling of the Messiyan, the Lamb slaying from the foundation of the world at Mount Moriah.

This Parashas is the fifth portion of the Torah Cycle. In this Parashas we should pray for the development of the servant attitude.

Parashas Sarah is a narrative on the life of Sarah, the mother of a nation, a type of people who strive for perfection “Yisrael”. An essential concept of Judaism, it does not reject the past like Christianity, nor does it forget what is to come. The narrative up for discussion, begins with the death of Sarah and her husband‘s intense desire to give her a proper burial, one worthy of her greatness. We see Abraham looking ahead, turning to the responsibility of finding a suitable wife for his son Isaac.