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<div>*Chumash First run on Chumash until 23:8 --[[User:Dun|Dun]] 17:05, 21 November 2019 (MST)<br />
*Chumash First run on Chumash until 24:25 --[[User:Dun|Dun]] 16:35, 28 October 2021 (MST)<br />
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*Rashi First run on Rashi until 23:8 --[[User:Dun|Dun]] 17:05, 21 November 2019 (MST)<br />
*Rashi First run on Rashi until 24:26 --[[User:Dun|Dun]] 16:35, 28 October 2021 (MST)</div>Dunhttp://zissil.com/topics/Parashat-Chayei-SarahParashat-Chayei-Sarah2021-10-28T23:32:55Z<p>Dun: /* Arrival of Rivka */</p>
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<div>Parshas Chayei Sarah<br />
<br />
==Passing of Sarah==<br />
After hearing about the Akida, how Yitzchak was prepared for slaughter and almost slaughtered, Sarah's soul flew out of her and passed away.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> Her life spanned 127 years, all of them which were equally good.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1">Rashi Berashis 23:1</ref> Sarah was 100 years old but like 20 years old regarding sin, who is not yet liable for punishment and was like a 7 year old regarding beauty.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1"/> She died in Chevron in the Land of Canaan which was also named Kiryas Arba - Settlement of Four after the four giants living there; Achiman, Sheshai, Talmai and their father.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2">Rashi Berashis 23:2</ref> It also alluded to the future destiny of the city which would have four holy couples buried there; Adom and Chava, Avrahom and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/><br />
<br />
==The Burial==<br />
Avrahom came from Beer Sheva<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> to eulogize Sarah and to mourn her.<br />
<br />
===Purchasing the Cave===<br />
Avrahom arose from before his dead, and spoke to the men of Ches. He mentioned how he was a stranger from another land but had settled among them<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/> as an inhabitant of the land. He requested a piece of land<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4">Rashi Berashis 23:4</ref> by them to use as a burial plot, where he could bury his dead from before him. If they were willing to sell it to him, Avrahom would buy it like a stranger but if not he would take it legally as an inhabitant since Hashem had already promised<ref>Berashis 12:7</ref> to give his descendants the Land.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/><br />
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The Sons of Ches answered Avraham calling him a prince of G-D who dwells in their midst and telling him that he could bury his dead in the choicest of their graves. None of them would withhold<ref>Rashi Berashis 23:6</ref> their graves from Avrahom burying his dead. Avraham arose and bowed to the Sons of Ches, the people of the land. He answered them that if it was their will<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8">Rashi Berashis 23:8</ref> to allow him to bury Sarah they should listen to him and request<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8"/> from Ephron ben Tzochar that he may give him the Machpelah double cave, that belongs to him which is found at the end of his field. He should give it to Avraham at its full priced value<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> as a burial property in their midst. It was called the Mearos Hamachpela since it was a two story cave<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9">Rashi Berashis 23:9</ref> and because it contained buried couples;<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> currently Adom and Chava and later Avraham and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah. Avraham wished to pay the full price of the land so later the sale could not be contested. Similarly King Dovid purchased the land of the Beis Hamikdash from Araunah at its full value.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/><br />
<br />
Ephron was sitting amongst the people of Ches since he had been appointed as an officer over them that very day and had been raised to greatness due to the importance of Avraham who needed him.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10">Rashi Berashis 23:10</ref> Ephron the Chiti answered Avraham announcing to all the people of Ches who had left their work<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> and came to the city gate, to pay respect to Sarah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> Avraham should listen to him and not purchase it with money,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11">Rashi Berashis 23:11</ref> rather Ephron is giving him the field and the cave that is in it for free in front of his people, and it is as if he has already given it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11"/> to bury his dead. Avraham bowed before the people of the land.<br />
<br />
Avraham replied to Ephron allowing the people of the land to hear, that he is not interested in accepting his offer of giving the field for free.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13">Rashi Berashis 23:13</ref> Rather if Ephron would only<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> listen to him and accept the money that he had prepared<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> and wished he had already given him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> for the field, then he will then bury his dead there.<br />
<br />
Ephron replied to Avraham, telling him that a piece of land that is worth only four hundred shekels of silver, what is its importance between two friends like them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15">Rashi Berashis 23:15</ref> It is not important so let him leave the sale<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15"/> and bury his dead. Avraham listened to Ephron and weighed out to him the 400 shekels of silver that were acceptable by all merchants, which Ephron had requested in front of the people of Ches. Ephron had promised a lot but did not nothing,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16">Rashi Berashis 23:16</ref> originally he declared that he wanted to give the cave as a gift but in the not only did he take the full payment, he took it in extra large Kentrin shekels, each worth 100 coins, that were acceptable everywhere, even in locations that used large shekels.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/> Due to this Ephron had the letter Vav subsequently removed from his name in the Torah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/><br />
<br />
Retrospectively the field of Ephron which was in Machpelah, facing Mamre, was established as Avraham's possession,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17">Rashi Berashis 23:17</ref> thereby rising from the the possession of a simple person to the possession of a king.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17"/> This included the field, the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, within its entire surrounding borders. It became Avraham's possession before the eyes of the Chetim. Ephron sold it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18">Rashi Berashis 23:18</ref> in the midst and presence<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18"/> of all who had come within the city gate.<br />
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===Burial of Sarah===<br />
Afterwards, Avraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, facing Mamre, which is Hebron, in the land of Canaan. The field and the cave within it were established to Avraham as burial property, purchased from the Chitim.<br />
<br />
==Eliezer's Mission==<br />
===Aging of Avraham===<br />
Avraham was old, advanced in days, and Hashem had blessed Avraham with everything including a son,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1">Rashi Berashis 24:1</ref> which he now had to marry off.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1"/><br />
<br />
===Eliezer's Oath===<br />
Avraham asked his servant Eliezer, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that was his; to please place his hand under his thigh. One who swears must hold in his hand a religious item such as a Torah scroll or Tefillin. Since circumcision was Avraham's first mitzvah and he had fulfilled it with pain, it was dear to him; so he choose to use it.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:2">Rashi Berashis 24:2</ref> <br />
<br />
Avraham requested that Eliezer swear by Hashem the G-D of the heaven and earth, that he will not take a wife for Yitzchak from the Canaanites, in whose midst they lived. Rather he was to go to the land of Avraham's birthplace and from there find a wife for his son Yitzchak.<br />
<br />
Eliezer inquired in the case where the woman would not agree to go back with him to the Land of Cannan, would he be permitted to bring Yitchak to Aram Naharaim. Avraham responded, warning Eliezer not to bring Yitzchak there. Rather Hashem the G-D of the heavens Who took him from his father's home in Charun<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7">Rashi Berashis 24:7</ref> and Ur Kasdim<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> the land of his birth and spoke concerning<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> him and swore to him during the Bris Bein Habisarim<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> that He would give the Land of Canaan to his son, He will send His angel before Eliezer, and he should take a wife for Yitzchak from there. When Hashem first took Avraham from his father's home, he was not yet recognized amongst the people, therefore Avraham referenced Hashem only as G-D of the Heavens. Now at the time of the oath due to Avraham's great outreach efforts amongst the people who learned to recognize Hashem, he was able to reference Him as the G-D of both Heaven and Earth.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> If despite this; the woman would not agree to go with Eliezer, he will be absolved of this oath and he may select a wife for Yitzchak from the daughters of Aner, Eshkol and Mamre.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:8">Rashi Berashis 24:8</ref> Eliezer only should do not bring Yitzchak back to Aram Naharaim, although his grandson Yackov is destined to go back.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:8"/><br />
<br />
Eliezer placed his hand under the thigh of Avraham his master and swore to him concerning this matter.<br />
<br />
===Trip to Aram Naharaim===<br />
Eliezer took ten of his master's camels and went to Aram Naharaim to the city of Nachor. Avraham's camels were distinguishable from other camels, since they were muzzled to prevent them from grazing in strangers’ fields, which is a form of stealing.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10">Rashi Berashis 24:10</ref> Eliezer took in his hand a gift contract bequeathing to Yitzchak<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> the best of Avraham's assets and everything he owned.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> This was done to expedite Besuel to send his daughter.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> Aram Naharaim was located between two rivers.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/><br />
<br />
===The Well===<br />
When Eliezer arrived, he made the camels kneel<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:11">Rashi Berashis 24:11</ref> outside the city beside the well of water towards evening. This was the time when the women of the city would come to draw water. <br />
<br />
===Eliezer's Prayer===<br />
Eliezer prayed to Hashem, calling him the G-D of his master Avraham and asking Him to perform a favor for Avraham and have his objectives transpire that day. Since he was standing by the water well and the girls of the city were coming out to draw water, he would do the following test; the girl to whom he will ask to lower her pitcher and allow him to drink water, that will not only allow him to drink but also offer water for his camels, this will clarify<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/> that she must be the one designated by Hashem to marry Yitzchak. If she will perform such acts of kindness, she is was worthy for Yitzchok and fit to enter the house of Avraham.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14">Rashi Berashis 24:14</ref><br />
<br />
Eliezer begged<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/> that through her, Hashem will let him know<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/> that He performed an act of kindness with Avraham, if she ended up being from Avraham's family and worth for Yitzchok.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/><br />
<br />
===Arrival of Rivka===<br />
Before Eliezer finished speaking his prayer, Rivka arrived, with her pitcher on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Besuel, the son of Milka and Nachor, Avraham's brother. She had a nice appearance and never had any form<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:16">Rashi Berashis 24:16</ref> of physical relationships. Unlike the other locals, she was completely clean.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:16"/> Rivka wend down to the well, filed her pitcher and went up.<br />
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After seeing the waters of the well rise towards Rivka,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:17">Rashi Berashis 24:17</ref> Eliezer the servant ran toward her, and aske to please allow him to swallow<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:17"/> a little water from her pitcher. Rivka replied that he should drink and quickly lowered the pitcher from her shoulder to her hand and gave Eliezer to drink.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:18">Rashi Berashis 24:18</ref> <br />
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When she finished giving him to drink, Rivka announced that she would also draw water for all his camels until they had enough, were full<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:19">Rashi Berashis 24:19</ref> and done drinking. She quickly emptied<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:20">Rashi Berashis 24:20</ref> her pitcher into the hollowed stone trench, from which the camels drank<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:20"/> and ran again to the well to draw more water. Rivka continued until she drew water for all his camels.<br />
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Eliezer was astonished, desolated,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:21">Rashi Berashis 24:21</ref> lost in his thoughts<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:21"/> and startled<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:21"/> about<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:21"/> her. He saw his attempt looked like it was succeeding but did not yet know if the girl was from the family of Avraham.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:21"/> He stood silently in his place,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:21"/> waiting<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:21"/> to know whether or not Hashem had made his mission successful.<br />
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When the camels finished drinking, Eliezer took a gold nose ring, weighing half a shekel and two bracelets for her hands, weighing ten gold shekels. These gifts expressed much symbolism;<br />
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* Half shekel (בקע) nose ring = Alluded to the Jewish Machtzis Hashekel collections (בקע) per each head.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:22">Rashi Berashis 24:22</ref><br />
* Two bracelets (צמידים) = Alluded to the two Luchos Tablets that were closely (מצומדות) paired together.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:22"/> Their 10 shekel weight, alluded to the Ten Commandments inscribed on the Luchos.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:22"/><br />
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Eliezer asked Rivka whos daughter she was and if she had place in her fathers house to sleep for one night.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:22"/> He inquired her identity only after giving the gifts, since Eliezer was confident that in the merit of Avraham, Hashem had made him successful in his mission.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:23">Rashi Berashis 24:23</ref> Rivka replied in the order of the questions she was asked;<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:24">Rashi Berashis 24:24</ref> she was the daughter of Besuel, whom Milka bore for Nachor. She then informed Eliezer that they had a place for him to sleep for many nights, not only for the single night that he requested.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:23"/> and had plenty of straw, barley<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:25">Rashi Berashis 24:25</ref> and fodder for feeding his camels. Eliezer then kneeled and bowed down to Hashem.<br />
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<div>Parshas Chayei Sarah<br />
<br />
==Passing of Sarah==<br />
After hearing about the Akida, how Yitzchak was prepared for slaughter and almost slaughtered, Sarah's soul flew out of her and passed away.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> Her life spanned 127 years, all of them which were equally good.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1">Rashi Berashis 23:1</ref> Sarah was 100 years old but like 20 years old regarding sin, who is not yet liable for punishment and was like a 7 year old regarding beauty.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1"/> She died in Chevron in the Land of Canaan which was also named Kiryas Arba - Settlement of Four after the four giants living there; Achiman, Sheshai, Talmai and their father.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2">Rashi Berashis 23:2</ref> It also alluded to the future destiny of the city which would have four holy couples buried there; Adom and Chava, Avrahom and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/><br />
<br />
==The Burial==<br />
Avrahom came from Beer Sheva<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> to eulogize Sarah and to mourn her.<br />
<br />
===Purchasing the Cave===<br />
Avrahom arose from before his dead, and spoke to the men of Ches. He mentioned how he was a stranger from another land but had settled among them<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/> as an inhabitant of the land. He requested a piece of land<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4">Rashi Berashis 23:4</ref> by them to use as a burial plot, where he could bury his dead from before him. If they were willing to sell it to him, Avrahom would buy it like a stranger but if not he would take it legally as an inhabitant since Hashem had already promised<ref>Berashis 12:7</ref> to give his descendants the Land.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/><br />
<br />
The Sons of Ches answered Avraham calling him a prince of G-D who dwells in their midst and telling him that he could bury his dead in the choicest of their graves. None of them would withhold<ref>Rashi Berashis 23:6</ref> their graves from Avrahom burying his dead. Avraham arose and bowed to the Sons of Ches, the people of the land. He answered them that if it was their will<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8">Rashi Berashis 23:8</ref> to allow him to bury Sarah they should listen to him and request<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8"/> from Ephron ben Tzochar that he may give him the Machpelah double cave, that belongs to him which is found at the end of his field. He should give it to Avraham at its full priced value<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> as a burial property in their midst. It was called the Mearos Hamachpela since it was a two story cave<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9">Rashi Berashis 23:9</ref> and because it contained buried couples;<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> currently Adom and Chava and later Avraham and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah. Avraham wished to pay the full price of the land so later the sale could not be contested. Similarly King Dovid purchased the land of the Beis Hamikdash from Araunah at its full value.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/><br />
<br />
Ephron was sitting amongst the people of Ches since he had been appointed as an officer over them that very day and had been raised to greatness due to the importance of Avraham who needed him.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10">Rashi Berashis 23:10</ref> Ephron the Chiti answered Avraham announcing to all the people of Ches who had left their work<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> and came to the city gate, to pay respect to Sarah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> Avraham should listen to him and not purchase it with money,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11">Rashi Berashis 23:11</ref> rather Ephron is giving him the field and the cave that is in it for free in front of his people, and it is as if he has already given it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11"/> to bury his dead. Avraham bowed before the people of the land.<br />
<br />
Avraham replied to Ephron allowing the people of the land to hear, that he is not interested in accepting his offer of giving the field for free.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13">Rashi Berashis 23:13</ref> Rather if Ephron would only<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> listen to him and accept the money that he had prepared<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> and wished he had already given him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> for the field, then he will then bury his dead there.<br />
<br />
Ephron replied to Avraham, telling him that a piece of land that is worth only four hundred shekels of silver, what is its importance between two friends like them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15">Rashi Berashis 23:15</ref> It is not important so let him leave the sale<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15"/> and bury his dead. Avraham listened to Ephron and weighed out to him the 400 shekels of silver that were acceptable by all merchants, which Ephron had requested in front of the people of Ches. Ephron had promised a lot but did not nothing,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16">Rashi Berashis 23:16</ref> originally he declared that he wanted to give the cave as a gift but in the not only did he take the full payment, he took it in extra large Kentrin shekels, each worth 100 coins, that were acceptable everywhere, even in locations that used large shekels.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/> Due to this Ephron had the letter Vav subsequently removed from his name in the Torah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/><br />
<br />
Retrospectively the field of Ephron which was in Machpelah, facing Mamre, was established as Avraham's possession,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17">Rashi Berashis 23:17</ref> thereby rising from the the possession of a simple person to the possession of a king.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17"/> This included the field, the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, within its entire surrounding borders. It became Avraham's possession before the eyes of the Chetim. Ephron sold it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18">Rashi Berashis 23:18</ref> in the midst and presence<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18"/> of all who had come within the city gate.<br />
<br />
===Burial of Sarah===<br />
Afterwards, Avraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, facing Mamre, which is Hebron, in the land of Canaan. The field and the cave within it were established to Avraham as burial property, purchased from the Chitim.<br />
<br />
==Eliezer's Mission==<br />
===Aging of Avraham===<br />
Avraham was old, advanced in days, and Hashem had blessed Avraham with everything including a son,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1">Rashi Berashis 24:1</ref> which he now had to marry off.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1"/><br />
<br />
===Eliezer's Oath===<br />
Avraham asked his servant Eliezer, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that was his; to please place his hand under his thigh. One who swears must hold in his hand a religious item such as a Torah scroll or Tefillin. Since circumcision was Avraham's first mitzvah and he had fulfilled it with pain, it was dear to him; so he choose to use it.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:2">Rashi Berashis 24:2</ref> <br />
<br />
Avraham requested that Eliezer swear by Hashem the G-D of the heaven and earth, that he will not take a wife for Yitzchak from the Canaanites, in whose midst they lived. Rather he was to go to the land of Avraham's birthplace and from there find a wife for his son Yitzchak.<br />
<br />
Eliezer inquired in the case where the woman would not agree to go back with him to the Land of Cannan, would he be permitted to bring Yitchak to Aram Naharaim. Avraham responded, warning Eliezer not to bring Yitzchak there. Rather Hashem the G-D of the heavens Who took him from his father's home in Charun<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7">Rashi Berashis 24:7</ref> and Ur Kasdim<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> the land of his birth and spoke concerning<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> him and swore to him during the Bris Bein Habisarim<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> that He would give the Land of Canaan to his son, He will send His angel before Eliezer, and he should take a wife for Yitzchak from there. When Hashem first took Avraham from his father's home, he was not yet recognized amongst the people, therefore Avraham referenced Hashem only as G-D of the Heavens. Now at the time of the oath due to Avraham's great outreach efforts amongst the people who learned to recognize Hashem, he was able to reference Him as the G-D of both Heaven and Earth.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> If despite this; the woman would not agree to go with Eliezer, he will be absolved of this oath and he may select a wife for Yitzchak from the daughters of Aner, Eshkol and Mamre.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:8">Rashi Berashis 24:8</ref> Eliezer only should do not bring Yitzchak back to Aram Naharaim, although his grandson Yackov is destined to go back.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:8"/><br />
<br />
Eliezer placed his hand under the thigh of Avraham his master and swore to him concerning this matter.<br />
<br />
===Trip to Aram Naharaim===<br />
Eliezer took ten of his master's camels and went to Aram Naharaim to the city of Nachor. Avraham's camels were distinguishable from other camels, since they were muzzled to prevent them from grazing in strangers’ fields, which is a form of stealing.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10">Rashi Berashis 24:10</ref> Eliezer took in his hand a gift contract bequeathing to Yitzchak<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> the best of Avraham's assets and everything he owned.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> This was done to expedite Besuel to send his daughter.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> Aram Naharaim was located between two rivers.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/><br />
<br />
===The Well===<br />
When Eliezer arrived, he made the camels kneel<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:11">Rashi Berashis 24:11</ref> outside the city beside the well of water towards evening. This was the time when the women of the city would come to draw water. <br />
<br />
===Eliezer's Prayer===<br />
Eliezer prayed to Hashem, calling him the G-D of his master Avraham and asking Him to perform a favor for Avraham and have his objectives transpire that day. Since he was standing by the water well and the girls of the city were coming out to draw water, he would do the following test; the girl to whom he will ask to lower her pitcher and allow him to drink water, that will not only allow him to drink but also offer water for his camels, this will clarify<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/> that she must be the one designated by Hashem to marry Yitzchak. If she will perform such acts of kindness, she is was worthy for Yitzchok and fit to enter the house of Avraham.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14">Rashi Berashis 24:14</ref><br />
<br />
Eliezer begged<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/> that through her, Hashem will let him know<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/> that He performed an act of kindness with Avraham, if she ended up being from Avraham's family and worth for Yitzchok.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/><br />
<br />
===Arrival of Rivka===<br />
Before Eliezer finished speaking his prayer, Rivka arrived, with her pitcher on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Besuel, the son of Milka and Nachor, Avraham's brother. She had a nice appearance and never had any form<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:16">Rashi Berashis 24:16</ref> of physical relationships. Unlike the other locals, she was completely clean.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:16"/> Rivka wend down to the well, filed her pitcher and went up.<br />
<br />
After seeing the waters of the well rise towards Rivka,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:17">Rashi Berashis 24:17</ref> Eliezer the servant ran toward her, and aske to please allow him to swallow<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:17"/> a little water from her pitcher. Rivka replied that he should drink and quickly lowered the pitcher from her shoulder to her hand and gave Eliezer to drink.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:18">Rashi Berashis 24:18</ref> <br />
<br />
When she finished giving him to drink, Rivka announced that she would also draw water for all his camels until they had enough, were full<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:19">Rashi Berashis 24:19</ref> and done drinking. She quickly emptied<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:20">Rashi Berashis 24:20</ref> her pitcher into the hollowed stone trench, from which the camels drank<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:20"/> and ran again to the well to draw more water. Rivka continued until she drew water for all his camels.<br />
<br />
Eliezer was astonished, desolated,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:21">Rashi Berashis 24:21</ref> lost in his thoughts<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:21"/> and startled<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:21"/> about<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:21"/> her. He saw his attempt looked like it was succeeding but did not yet know if the girl was from the family of Avraham.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:21"/> He stood silently in his place,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:21"/> waiting<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:21"/> to know whether or not Hashem had made his mission successful.<br />
<br />
When the camels finished drinking, Eliezer took a gold nose ring, weighing half a shekel and two bracelets for her hands, weighing ten gold shekels. These gifts expressed much symbolism;<br />
<br />
* Half shekel (בקע) nose ring = Alluded to the Jewish Machtzis Hashekel collections (בקע) per each head.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:22">Rashi Berashis 24:22</ref><br />
* Two bracelets (צמידים) = Alluded to the two Luchos Tablets that were closely (מצומדות) paired together.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:22"/> Their 10 shekel weight, alluded to the Ten Commandments inscribed on the Luchos.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:22"/><br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
<br />
{{Weekly Parsha}}<br />
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[[Category:Parsha]]</div>Dunhttp://zissil.com/topics/Parashat-Chayei-SarahParashat-Chayei-Sarah2021-10-28T23:21:25Z<p>Dun: /* Arrival of Rivka */</p>
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<div>Parshas Chayei Sarah<br />
<br />
==Passing of Sarah==<br />
After hearing about the Akida, how Yitzchak was prepared for slaughter and almost slaughtered, Sarah's soul flew out of her and passed away.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> Her life spanned 127 years, all of them which were equally good.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1">Rashi Berashis 23:1</ref> Sarah was 100 years old but like 20 years old regarding sin, who is not yet liable for punishment and was like a 7 year old regarding beauty.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1"/> She died in Chevron in the Land of Canaan which was also named Kiryas Arba - Settlement of Four after the four giants living there; Achiman, Sheshai, Talmai and their father.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2">Rashi Berashis 23:2</ref> It also alluded to the future destiny of the city which would have four holy couples buried there; Adom and Chava, Avrahom and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/><br />
<br />
==The Burial==<br />
Avrahom came from Beer Sheva<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> to eulogize Sarah and to mourn her.<br />
<br />
===Purchasing the Cave===<br />
Avrahom arose from before his dead, and spoke to the men of Ches. He mentioned how he was a stranger from another land but had settled among them<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/> as an inhabitant of the land. He requested a piece of land<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4">Rashi Berashis 23:4</ref> by them to use as a burial plot, where he could bury his dead from before him. If they were willing to sell it to him, Avrahom would buy it like a stranger but if not he would take it legally as an inhabitant since Hashem had already promised<ref>Berashis 12:7</ref> to give his descendants the Land.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/><br />
<br />
The Sons of Ches answered Avraham calling him a prince of G-D who dwells in their midst and telling him that he could bury his dead in the choicest of their graves. None of them would withhold<ref>Rashi Berashis 23:6</ref> their graves from Avrahom burying his dead. Avraham arose and bowed to the Sons of Ches, the people of the land. He answered them that if it was their will<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8">Rashi Berashis 23:8</ref> to allow him to bury Sarah they should listen to him and request<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8"/> from Ephron ben Tzochar that he may give him the Machpelah double cave, that belongs to him which is found at the end of his field. He should give it to Avraham at its full priced value<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> as a burial property in their midst. It was called the Mearos Hamachpela since it was a two story cave<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9">Rashi Berashis 23:9</ref> and because it contained buried couples;<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> currently Adom and Chava and later Avraham and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah. Avraham wished to pay the full price of the land so later the sale could not be contested. Similarly King Dovid purchased the land of the Beis Hamikdash from Araunah at its full value.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/><br />
<br />
Ephron was sitting amongst the people of Ches since he had been appointed as an officer over them that very day and had been raised to greatness due to the importance of Avraham who needed him.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10">Rashi Berashis 23:10</ref> Ephron the Chiti answered Avraham announcing to all the people of Ches who had left their work<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> and came to the city gate, to pay respect to Sarah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> Avraham should listen to him and not purchase it with money,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11">Rashi Berashis 23:11</ref> rather Ephron is giving him the field and the cave that is in it for free in front of his people, and it is as if he has already given it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11"/> to bury his dead. Avraham bowed before the people of the land.<br />
<br />
Avraham replied to Ephron allowing the people of the land to hear, that he is not interested in accepting his offer of giving the field for free.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13">Rashi Berashis 23:13</ref> Rather if Ephron would only<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> listen to him and accept the money that he had prepared<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> and wished he had already given him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> for the field, then he will then bury his dead there.<br />
<br />
Ephron replied to Avraham, telling him that a piece of land that is worth only four hundred shekels of silver, what is its importance between two friends like them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15">Rashi Berashis 23:15</ref> It is not important so let him leave the sale<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15"/> and bury his dead. Avraham listened to Ephron and weighed out to him the 400 shekels of silver that were acceptable by all merchants, which Ephron had requested in front of the people of Ches. Ephron had promised a lot but did not nothing,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16">Rashi Berashis 23:16</ref> originally he declared that he wanted to give the cave as a gift but in the not only did he take the full payment, he took it in extra large Kentrin shekels, each worth 100 coins, that were acceptable everywhere, even in locations that used large shekels.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/> Due to this Ephron had the letter Vav subsequently removed from his name in the Torah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/><br />
<br />
Retrospectively the field of Ephron which was in Machpelah, facing Mamre, was established as Avraham's possession,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17">Rashi Berashis 23:17</ref> thereby rising from the the possession of a simple person to the possession of a king.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17"/> This included the field, the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, within its entire surrounding borders. It became Avraham's possession before the eyes of the Chetim. Ephron sold it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18">Rashi Berashis 23:18</ref> in the midst and presence<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18"/> of all who had come within the city gate.<br />
<br />
===Burial of Sarah===<br />
Afterwards, Avraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, facing Mamre, which is Hebron, in the land of Canaan. The field and the cave within it were established to Avraham as burial property, purchased from the Chitim.<br />
<br />
==Eliezer's Mission==<br />
===Aging of Avraham===<br />
Avraham was old, advanced in days, and Hashem had blessed Avraham with everything including a son,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1">Rashi Berashis 24:1</ref> which he now had to marry off.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1"/><br />
<br />
===Eliezer's Oath===<br />
Avraham asked his servant Eliezer, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that was his; to please place his hand under his thigh. One who swears must hold in his hand a religious item such as a Torah scroll or Tefillin. Since circumcision was Avraham's first mitzvah and he had fulfilled it with pain, it was dear to him; so he choose to use it.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:2">Rashi Berashis 24:2</ref> <br />
<br />
Avraham requested that Eliezer swear by Hashem the G-D of the heaven and earth, that he will not take a wife for Yitzchak from the Canaanites, in whose midst they lived. Rather he was to go to the land of Avraham's birthplace and from there find a wife for his son Yitzchak.<br />
<br />
Eliezer inquired in the case where the woman would not agree to go back with him to the Land of Cannan, would he be permitted to bring Yitchak to Aram Naharaim. Avraham responded, warning Eliezer not to bring Yitzchak there. Rather Hashem the G-D of the heavens Who took him from his father's home in Charun<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7">Rashi Berashis 24:7</ref> and Ur Kasdim<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> the land of his birth and spoke concerning<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> him and swore to him during the Bris Bein Habisarim<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> that He would give the Land of Canaan to his son, He will send His angel before Eliezer, and he should take a wife for Yitzchak from there. When Hashem first took Avraham from his father's home, he was not yet recognized amongst the people, therefore Avraham referenced Hashem only as G-D of the Heavens. Now at the time of the oath due to Avraham's great outreach efforts amongst the people who learned to recognize Hashem, he was able to reference Him as the G-D of both Heaven and Earth.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> If despite this; the woman would not agree to go with Eliezer, he will be absolved of this oath and he may select a wife for Yitzchak from the daughters of Aner, Eshkol and Mamre.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:8">Rashi Berashis 24:8</ref> Eliezer only should do not bring Yitzchak back to Aram Naharaim, although his grandson Yackov is destined to go back.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:8"/><br />
<br />
Eliezer placed his hand under the thigh of Avraham his master and swore to him concerning this matter.<br />
<br />
===Trip to Aram Naharaim===<br />
Eliezer took ten of his master's camels and went to Aram Naharaim to the city of Nachor. Avraham's camels were distinguishable from other camels, since they were muzzled to prevent them from grazing in strangers’ fields, which is a form of stealing.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10">Rashi Berashis 24:10</ref> Eliezer took in his hand a gift contract bequeathing to Yitzchak<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> the best of Avraham's assets and everything he owned.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> This was done to expedite Besuel to send his daughter.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> Aram Naharaim was located between two rivers.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/><br />
<br />
===The Well===<br />
When Eliezer arrived, he made the camels kneel<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:11">Rashi Berashis 24:11</ref> outside the city beside the well of water towards evening. This was the time when the women of the city would come to draw water. <br />
<br />
===Eliezer's Prayer===<br />
Eliezer prayed to Hashem, calling him the G-D of his master Avraham and asking Him to perform a favor for Avraham and have his objectives transpire that day. Since he was standing by the water well and the girls of the city were coming out to draw water, he would do the following test; the girl to whom he will ask to lower her pitcher and allow him to drink water, that will not only allow him to drink but also offer water for his camels, this will clarify<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/> that she must be the one designated by Hashem to marry Yitzchak. If she will perform such acts of kindness, she is was worthy for Yitzchok and fit to enter the house of Avraham.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14">Rashi Berashis 24:14</ref><br />
<br />
Eliezer begged<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/> that through her, Hashem will let him know<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/> that He performed an act of kindness with Avraham, if she ended up being from Avraham's family and worth for Yitzchok.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/><br />
<br />
===Arrival of Rivka===<br />
Before Eliezer finished speaking his prayer, Rivka arrived, with her pitcher on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Besuel, the son of Milka and Nachor, Avraham's brother. She had a nice appearance and never had any form<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:16">Rashi Berashis 24:16</ref> of physical relationships. Unlike the other locals, she was completely clean.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:16"/> Rivka wend down to the well, filed her pitcher and went up.<br />
<br />
After seeing the waters of the well rise towards Rivka,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:17">Rashi Berashis 24:17</ref> Eliezer the servant ran toward her, and aske to please allow him to swallow<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:17"/> a little water from her pitcher. Rivka replied that he should drink and quickly lowered the pitcher from her shoulder to her hand and gave Eliezer to drink.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:18">Rashi Berashis 24:18</ref> <br />
<br />
When she finished giving him to drink, Rivka announced that she would also draw water for all his camels until they had enough, were full<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:19">Rashi Berashis 24:19</ref> and done drinking. She quickly emptied<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:20">Rashi Berashis 24:20</ref> her pitcher into the hollowed stone trench, from which the camels drank<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:20"/> and ran again to the well to draw more water. Rivka continued until she drew water for all his camels.<br />
<br />
Eliezer was astonished, desolated,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:21">Rashi Berashis 24:21</ref> lost in his thoughts<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:21"/> and startled<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:21"/> about<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:21"/> her. He saw his attempt looked like it was succeeding but did not yet know if the girl was from the family of Avraham.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:21"/> He stood silently in his place,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:21"/> waiting<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:21"/> to know whether or not Hashem had made his mission successful.<br />
<br />
When the camels finished drinking, Eliezer took a gold nose ring, weighing half a shekel and two bracelets for her hands, weighing ten gold shekels. These gifts expressed much symbolism; * Half shekel (בקע) nose ring = Alluded to the Jewish Machtzis Hashekel collections (בקע) per each head.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:22">Rashi Berashis 24:22</ref><br />
* Two bracelets (צמידים) = Alluded to the two Luchos Tablets that were closely (מצומדות) paired together.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:22"/> Their 10 shekel weight, alluded to the Ten Commandments inscribed on the Luchos.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:22"/><br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
<br />
{{Weekly Parsha}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Parsha]]</div>Dunhttp://zissil.com/topics/Parashat-Chayei-SarahParashat-Chayei-Sarah2021-10-28T23:18:20Z<p>Dun: /* Arrival of Rivka */</p>
<hr />
<div>Parshas Chayei Sarah<br />
<br />
==Passing of Sarah==<br />
After hearing about the Akida, how Yitzchak was prepared for slaughter and almost slaughtered, Sarah's soul flew out of her and passed away.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> Her life spanned 127 years, all of them which were equally good.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1">Rashi Berashis 23:1</ref> Sarah was 100 years old but like 20 years old regarding sin, who is not yet liable for punishment and was like a 7 year old regarding beauty.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1"/> She died in Chevron in the Land of Canaan which was also named Kiryas Arba - Settlement of Four after the four giants living there; Achiman, Sheshai, Talmai and their father.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2">Rashi Berashis 23:2</ref> It also alluded to the future destiny of the city which would have four holy couples buried there; Adom and Chava, Avrahom and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/><br />
<br />
==The Burial==<br />
Avrahom came from Beer Sheva<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> to eulogize Sarah and to mourn her.<br />
<br />
===Purchasing the Cave===<br />
Avrahom arose from before his dead, and spoke to the men of Ches. He mentioned how he was a stranger from another land but had settled among them<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/> as an inhabitant of the land. He requested a piece of land<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4">Rashi Berashis 23:4</ref> by them to use as a burial plot, where he could bury his dead from before him. If they were willing to sell it to him, Avrahom would buy it like a stranger but if not he would take it legally as an inhabitant since Hashem had already promised<ref>Berashis 12:7</ref> to give his descendants the Land.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/><br />
<br />
The Sons of Ches answered Avraham calling him a prince of G-D who dwells in their midst and telling him that he could bury his dead in the choicest of their graves. None of them would withhold<ref>Rashi Berashis 23:6</ref> their graves from Avrahom burying his dead. Avraham arose and bowed to the Sons of Ches, the people of the land. He answered them that if it was their will<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8">Rashi Berashis 23:8</ref> to allow him to bury Sarah they should listen to him and request<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8"/> from Ephron ben Tzochar that he may give him the Machpelah double cave, that belongs to him which is found at the end of his field. He should give it to Avraham at its full priced value<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> as a burial property in their midst. It was called the Mearos Hamachpela since it was a two story cave<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9">Rashi Berashis 23:9</ref> and because it contained buried couples;<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> currently Adom and Chava and later Avraham and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah. Avraham wished to pay the full price of the land so later the sale could not be contested. Similarly King Dovid purchased the land of the Beis Hamikdash from Araunah at its full value.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/><br />
<br />
Ephron was sitting amongst the people of Ches since he had been appointed as an officer over them that very day and had been raised to greatness due to the importance of Avraham who needed him.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10">Rashi Berashis 23:10</ref> Ephron the Chiti answered Avraham announcing to all the people of Ches who had left their work<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> and came to the city gate, to pay respect to Sarah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> Avraham should listen to him and not purchase it with money,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11">Rashi Berashis 23:11</ref> rather Ephron is giving him the field and the cave that is in it for free in front of his people, and it is as if he has already given it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11"/> to bury his dead. Avraham bowed before the people of the land.<br />
<br />
Avraham replied to Ephron allowing the people of the land to hear, that he is not interested in accepting his offer of giving the field for free.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13">Rashi Berashis 23:13</ref> Rather if Ephron would only<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> listen to him and accept the money that he had prepared<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> and wished he had already given him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> for the field, then he will then bury his dead there.<br />
<br />
Ephron replied to Avraham, telling him that a piece of land that is worth only four hundred shekels of silver, what is its importance between two friends like them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15">Rashi Berashis 23:15</ref> It is not important so let him leave the sale<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15"/> and bury his dead. Avraham listened to Ephron and weighed out to him the 400 shekels of silver that were acceptable by all merchants, which Ephron had requested in front of the people of Ches. Ephron had promised a lot but did not nothing,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16">Rashi Berashis 23:16</ref> originally he declared that he wanted to give the cave as a gift but in the not only did he take the full payment, he took it in extra large Kentrin shekels, each worth 100 coins, that were acceptable everywhere, even in locations that used large shekels.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/> Due to this Ephron had the letter Vav subsequently removed from his name in the Torah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/><br />
<br />
Retrospectively the field of Ephron which was in Machpelah, facing Mamre, was established as Avraham's possession,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17">Rashi Berashis 23:17</ref> thereby rising from the the possession of a simple person to the possession of a king.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17"/> This included the field, the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, within its entire surrounding borders. It became Avraham's possession before the eyes of the Chetim. Ephron sold it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18">Rashi Berashis 23:18</ref> in the midst and presence<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18"/> of all who had come within the city gate.<br />
<br />
===Burial of Sarah===<br />
Afterwards, Avraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, facing Mamre, which is Hebron, in the land of Canaan. The field and the cave within it were established to Avraham as burial property, purchased from the Chitim.<br />
<br />
==Eliezer's Mission==<br />
===Aging of Avraham===<br />
Avraham was old, advanced in days, and Hashem had blessed Avraham with everything including a son,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1">Rashi Berashis 24:1</ref> which he now had to marry off.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1"/><br />
<br />
===Eliezer's Oath===<br />
Avraham asked his servant Eliezer, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that was his; to please place his hand under his thigh. One who swears must hold in his hand a religious item such as a Torah scroll or Tefillin. Since circumcision was Avraham's first mitzvah and he had fulfilled it with pain, it was dear to him; so he choose to use it.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:2">Rashi Berashis 24:2</ref> <br />
<br />
Avraham requested that Eliezer swear by Hashem the G-D of the heaven and earth, that he will not take a wife for Yitzchak from the Canaanites, in whose midst they lived. Rather he was to go to the land of Avraham's birthplace and from there find a wife for his son Yitzchak.<br />
<br />
Eliezer inquired in the case where the woman would not agree to go back with him to the Land of Cannan, would he be permitted to bring Yitchak to Aram Naharaim. Avraham responded, warning Eliezer not to bring Yitzchak there. Rather Hashem the G-D of the heavens Who took him from his father's home in Charun<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7">Rashi Berashis 24:7</ref> and Ur Kasdim<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> the land of his birth and spoke concerning<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> him and swore to him during the Bris Bein Habisarim<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> that He would give the Land of Canaan to his son, He will send His angel before Eliezer, and he should take a wife for Yitzchak from there. When Hashem first took Avraham from his father's home, he was not yet recognized amongst the people, therefore Avraham referenced Hashem only as G-D of the Heavens. Now at the time of the oath due to Avraham's great outreach efforts amongst the people who learned to recognize Hashem, he was able to reference Him as the G-D of both Heaven and Earth.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> If despite this; the woman would not agree to go with Eliezer, he will be absolved of this oath and he may select a wife for Yitzchak from the daughters of Aner, Eshkol and Mamre.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:8">Rashi Berashis 24:8</ref> Eliezer only should do not bring Yitzchak back to Aram Naharaim, although his grandson Yackov is destined to go back.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:8"/><br />
<br />
Eliezer placed his hand under the thigh of Avraham his master and swore to him concerning this matter.<br />
<br />
===Trip to Aram Naharaim===<br />
Eliezer took ten of his master's camels and went to Aram Naharaim to the city of Nachor. Avraham's camels were distinguishable from other camels, since they were muzzled to prevent them from grazing in strangers’ fields, which is a form of stealing.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10">Rashi Berashis 24:10</ref> Eliezer took in his hand a gift contract bequeathing to Yitzchak<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> the best of Avraham's assets and everything he owned.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> This was done to expedite Besuel to send his daughter.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> Aram Naharaim was located between two rivers.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/><br />
<br />
===The Well===<br />
When Eliezer arrived, he made the camels kneel<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:11">Rashi Berashis 24:11</ref> outside the city beside the well of water towards evening. This was the time when the women of the city would come to draw water. <br />
<br />
===Eliezer's Prayer===<br />
Eliezer prayed to Hashem, calling him the G-D of his master Avraham and asking Him to perform a favor for Avraham and have his objectives transpire that day. Since he was standing by the water well and the girls of the city were coming out to draw water, he would do the following test; the girl to whom he will ask to lower her pitcher and allow him to drink water, that will not only allow him to drink but also offer water for his camels, this will clarify<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/> that she must be the one designated by Hashem to marry Yitzchak. If she will perform such acts of kindness, she is was worthy for Yitzchok and fit to enter the house of Avraham.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14">Rashi Berashis 24:14</ref><br />
<br />
Eliezer begged<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/> that through her, Hashem will let him know<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/> that He performed an act of kindness with Avraham, if she ended up being from Avraham's family and worth for Yitzchok.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/><br />
<br />
===Arrival of Rivka===<br />
Before Eliezer finished speaking his prayer, Rivka arrived, with her pitcher on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Besuel, the son of Milka and Nachor, Avraham's brother. She had a nice appearance and never had any form<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:16">Rashi Berashis 24:16</ref> of physical relationships. Unlike the other locals, she was completely clean.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:16"/> Rivka wend down to the well, filed her pitcher and went up.<br />
<br />
After seeing the waters of the well rise towards Rivka,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:17">Rashi Berashis 24:17</ref> Eliezer the servant ran toward her, and aske to please allow him to swallow<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:17"/> a little water from her pitcher. Rivka replied that he should drink and quickly lowered the pitcher from her shoulder to her hand and gave Eliezer to drink.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:18">Rashi Berashis 24:18</ref> <br />
<br />
When she finished giving him to drink, Rivka announced that she would also draw water for all his camels until they had enough, were full<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:19">Rashi Berashis 24:19</ref> and done drinking. She quickly emptied<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:20">Rashi Berashis 24:20</ref> her pitcher into the hollowed stone trench, from which the camels drank<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:20"/> and ran again to the well to draw more water. Rivka continued until she drew water for all his camels.<br />
<br />
Eliezer was astonished, desolated,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:21">Rashi Berashis 24:21</ref> lost in his thoughts<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:21"/> and startled<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:21"/> about<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:21"/> her. He saw his attempt looked like it was succeeding but did not yet know if the girl was from the family of Avraham.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:21"/> He stood silently in his place,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:21"/> waiting<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:21"/> to know whether or not Hashem had made his mission successful.<br />
<br />
When the camels finished drinking, Eliezer took a gold nose ring, weighing half a shekel and two bracelets for her hands, weighing ten gold shekels. These gifts expressed much symbolism; #Half shekel nose ring = Alluded to the Jewish Machtzis Hashekel collections per each head.<br />
# Two bracelets = Alluded to the two Luchos Tablets that were closely paired together. Their 10 shekel weight, alluded to the Ten Commandments inscribed on the Luchos.<br />
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==References==<br />
<references/><br />
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{{Weekly Parsha}}<br />
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[[Category:Parsha]]</div>Dunhttp://zissil.com/topics/Parashat-Chayei-SarahParashat-Chayei-Sarah2021-10-28T23:09:28Z<p>Dun: /* Arrival of Rivka */</p>
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<div>Parshas Chayei Sarah<br />
<br />
==Passing of Sarah==<br />
After hearing about the Akida, how Yitzchak was prepared for slaughter and almost slaughtered, Sarah's soul flew out of her and passed away.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> Her life spanned 127 years, all of them which were equally good.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1">Rashi Berashis 23:1</ref> Sarah was 100 years old but like 20 years old regarding sin, who is not yet liable for punishment and was like a 7 year old regarding beauty.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1"/> She died in Chevron in the Land of Canaan which was also named Kiryas Arba - Settlement of Four after the four giants living there; Achiman, Sheshai, Talmai and their father.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2">Rashi Berashis 23:2</ref> It also alluded to the future destiny of the city which would have four holy couples buried there; Adom and Chava, Avrahom and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/><br />
<br />
==The Burial==<br />
Avrahom came from Beer Sheva<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> to eulogize Sarah and to mourn her.<br />
<br />
===Purchasing the Cave===<br />
Avrahom arose from before his dead, and spoke to the men of Ches. He mentioned how he was a stranger from another land but had settled among them<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/> as an inhabitant of the land. He requested a piece of land<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4">Rashi Berashis 23:4</ref> by them to use as a burial plot, where he could bury his dead from before him. If they were willing to sell it to him, Avrahom would buy it like a stranger but if not he would take it legally as an inhabitant since Hashem had already promised<ref>Berashis 12:7</ref> to give his descendants the Land.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/><br />
<br />
The Sons of Ches answered Avraham calling him a prince of G-D who dwells in their midst and telling him that he could bury his dead in the choicest of their graves. None of them would withhold<ref>Rashi Berashis 23:6</ref> their graves from Avrahom burying his dead. Avraham arose and bowed to the Sons of Ches, the people of the land. He answered them that if it was their will<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8">Rashi Berashis 23:8</ref> to allow him to bury Sarah they should listen to him and request<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8"/> from Ephron ben Tzochar that he may give him the Machpelah double cave, that belongs to him which is found at the end of his field. He should give it to Avraham at its full priced value<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> as a burial property in their midst. It was called the Mearos Hamachpela since it was a two story cave<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9">Rashi Berashis 23:9</ref> and because it contained buried couples;<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> currently Adom and Chava and later Avraham and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah. Avraham wished to pay the full price of the land so later the sale could not be contested. Similarly King Dovid purchased the land of the Beis Hamikdash from Araunah at its full value.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/><br />
<br />
Ephron was sitting amongst the people of Ches since he had been appointed as an officer over them that very day and had been raised to greatness due to the importance of Avraham who needed him.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10">Rashi Berashis 23:10</ref> Ephron the Chiti answered Avraham announcing to all the people of Ches who had left their work<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> and came to the city gate, to pay respect to Sarah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> Avraham should listen to him and not purchase it with money,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11">Rashi Berashis 23:11</ref> rather Ephron is giving him the field and the cave that is in it for free in front of his people, and it is as if he has already given it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11"/> to bury his dead. Avraham bowed before the people of the land.<br />
<br />
Avraham replied to Ephron allowing the people of the land to hear, that he is not interested in accepting his offer of giving the field for free.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13">Rashi Berashis 23:13</ref> Rather if Ephron would only<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> listen to him and accept the money that he had prepared<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> and wished he had already given him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> for the field, then he will then bury his dead there.<br />
<br />
Ephron replied to Avraham, telling him that a piece of land that is worth only four hundred shekels of silver, what is its importance between two friends like them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15">Rashi Berashis 23:15</ref> It is not important so let him leave the sale<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15"/> and bury his dead. Avraham listened to Ephron and weighed out to him the 400 shekels of silver that were acceptable by all merchants, which Ephron had requested in front of the people of Ches. Ephron had promised a lot but did not nothing,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16">Rashi Berashis 23:16</ref> originally he declared that he wanted to give the cave as a gift but in the not only did he take the full payment, he took it in extra large Kentrin shekels, each worth 100 coins, that were acceptable everywhere, even in locations that used large shekels.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/> Due to this Ephron had the letter Vav subsequently removed from his name in the Torah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/><br />
<br />
Retrospectively the field of Ephron which was in Machpelah, facing Mamre, was established as Avraham's possession,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17">Rashi Berashis 23:17</ref> thereby rising from the the possession of a simple person to the possession of a king.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17"/> This included the field, the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, within its entire surrounding borders. It became Avraham's possession before the eyes of the Chetim. Ephron sold it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18">Rashi Berashis 23:18</ref> in the midst and presence<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18"/> of all who had come within the city gate.<br />
<br />
===Burial of Sarah===<br />
Afterwards, Avraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, facing Mamre, which is Hebron, in the land of Canaan. The field and the cave within it were established to Avraham as burial property, purchased from the Chitim.<br />
<br />
==Eliezer's Mission==<br />
===Aging of Avraham===<br />
Avraham was old, advanced in days, and Hashem had blessed Avraham with everything including a son,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1">Rashi Berashis 24:1</ref> which he now had to marry off.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1"/><br />
<br />
===Eliezer's Oath===<br />
Avraham asked his servant Eliezer, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that was his; to please place his hand under his thigh. One who swears must hold in his hand a religious item such as a Torah scroll or Tefillin. Since circumcision was Avraham's first mitzvah and he had fulfilled it with pain, it was dear to him; so he choose to use it.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:2">Rashi Berashis 24:2</ref> <br />
<br />
Avraham requested that Eliezer swear by Hashem the G-D of the heaven and earth, that he will not take a wife for Yitzchak from the Canaanites, in whose midst they lived. Rather he was to go to the land of Avraham's birthplace and from there find a wife for his son Yitzchak.<br />
<br />
Eliezer inquired in the case where the woman would not agree to go back with him to the Land of Cannan, would he be permitted to bring Yitchak to Aram Naharaim. Avraham responded, warning Eliezer not to bring Yitzchak there. Rather Hashem the G-D of the heavens Who took him from his father's home in Charun<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7">Rashi Berashis 24:7</ref> and Ur Kasdim<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> the land of his birth and spoke concerning<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> him and swore to him during the Bris Bein Habisarim<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> that He would give the Land of Canaan to his son, He will send His angel before Eliezer, and he should take a wife for Yitzchak from there. When Hashem first took Avraham from his father's home, he was not yet recognized amongst the people, therefore Avraham referenced Hashem only as G-D of the Heavens. Now at the time of the oath due to Avraham's great outreach efforts amongst the people who learned to recognize Hashem, he was able to reference Him as the G-D of both Heaven and Earth.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> If despite this; the woman would not agree to go with Eliezer, he will be absolved of this oath and he may select a wife for Yitzchak from the daughters of Aner, Eshkol and Mamre.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:8">Rashi Berashis 24:8</ref> Eliezer only should do not bring Yitzchak back to Aram Naharaim, although his grandson Yackov is destined to go back.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:8"/><br />
<br />
Eliezer placed his hand under the thigh of Avraham his master and swore to him concerning this matter.<br />
<br />
===Trip to Aram Naharaim===<br />
Eliezer took ten of his master's camels and went to Aram Naharaim to the city of Nachor. Avraham's camels were distinguishable from other camels, since they were muzzled to prevent them from grazing in strangers’ fields, which is a form of stealing.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10">Rashi Berashis 24:10</ref> Eliezer took in his hand a gift contract bequeathing to Yitzchak<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> the best of Avraham's assets and everything he owned.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> This was done to expedite Besuel to send his daughter.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> Aram Naharaim was located between two rivers.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/><br />
<br />
===The Well===<br />
When Eliezer arrived, he made the camels kneel<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:11">Rashi Berashis 24:11</ref> outside the city beside the well of water towards evening. This was the time when the women of the city would come to draw water. <br />
<br />
===Eliezer's Prayer===<br />
Eliezer prayed to Hashem, calling him the G-D of his master Avraham and asking Him to perform a favor for Avraham and have his objectives transpire that day. Since he was standing by the water well and the girls of the city were coming out to draw water, he would do the following test; the girl to whom he will ask to lower her pitcher and allow him to drink water, that will not only allow him to drink but also offer water for his camels, this will clarify<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/> that she must be the one designated by Hashem to marry Yitzchak. If she will perform such acts of kindness, she is was worthy for Yitzchok and fit to enter the house of Avraham.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14">Rashi Berashis 24:14</ref><br />
<br />
Eliezer begged<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/> that through her, Hashem will let him know<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/> that He performed an act of kindness with Avraham, if she ended up being from Avraham's family and worth for Yitzchok.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/><br />
<br />
===Arrival of Rivka===<br />
Before Eliezer finished speaking his prayer, Rivka arrived, with her pitcher on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Besuel, the son of Milka and Nachor, Avraham's brother. She had a nice appearance and never had any form<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:16">Rashi Berashis 24:16</ref> of physical relationships. Unlike the other locals, she was completely clean.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:16"/> Rivka wend down to the well, filed her pitcher and went up.<br />
<br />
After seeing the waters of the well rise towards Rivka,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:17">Rashi Berashis 24:17</ref> Eliezer the servant ran toward her, and aske to please allow him to swallow<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:17"/> a little water from her pitcher. Rivka replied that he should drink and quickly lowered the pitcher from her shoulder to her hand and gave Eliezer to drink.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:18">Rashi Berashis 24:18</ref> <br />
<br />
When she finished giving him to drink, Rivka announced that she would also draw water for all his camels until they had enough, were full<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:19">Rashi Berashis 24:19</ref> and done drinking. She quickly emptied<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:20">Rashi Berashis 24:20</ref> her pitcher into the hollowed stone trench, from which the camels drank<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:20"/> and ran again to the well to draw more water. Rivka continued until she drew water for all his camels.<br />
<br />
Eliezer was astonished, desolated,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:21">Rashi Berashis 24:21</ref> lost in his thoughts<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:21"/> and startled<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:21"/> about<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:21"/> her. He saw his attempt looked like it was succeeding but did not yet know if the girl was from the family of Avraham.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:21"/> He stood silently in his place,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:21"/> waiting<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:21"/> to know whether or not Hashem had made his mission successful.<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
<br />
{{Weekly Parsha}}<br />
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[[Category:Parsha]]</div>Dunhttp://zissil.com/topics/Parashat-Chayei-SarahParashat-Chayei-Sarah2021-10-28T23:00:49Z<p>Dun: /* Arrival of Rivka */</p>
<hr />
<div>Parshas Chayei Sarah<br />
<br />
==Passing of Sarah==<br />
After hearing about the Akida, how Yitzchak was prepared for slaughter and almost slaughtered, Sarah's soul flew out of her and passed away.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> Her life spanned 127 years, all of them which were equally good.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1">Rashi Berashis 23:1</ref> Sarah was 100 years old but like 20 years old regarding sin, who is not yet liable for punishment and was like a 7 year old regarding beauty.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1"/> She died in Chevron in the Land of Canaan which was also named Kiryas Arba - Settlement of Four after the four giants living there; Achiman, Sheshai, Talmai and their father.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2">Rashi Berashis 23:2</ref> It also alluded to the future destiny of the city which would have four holy couples buried there; Adom and Chava, Avrahom and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/><br />
<br />
==The Burial==<br />
Avrahom came from Beer Sheva<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> to eulogize Sarah and to mourn her.<br />
<br />
===Purchasing the Cave===<br />
Avrahom arose from before his dead, and spoke to the men of Ches. He mentioned how he was a stranger from another land but had settled among them<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/> as an inhabitant of the land. He requested a piece of land<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4">Rashi Berashis 23:4</ref> by them to use as a burial plot, where he could bury his dead from before him. If they were willing to sell it to him, Avrahom would buy it like a stranger but if not he would take it legally as an inhabitant since Hashem had already promised<ref>Berashis 12:7</ref> to give his descendants the Land.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/><br />
<br />
The Sons of Ches answered Avraham calling him a prince of G-D who dwells in their midst and telling him that he could bury his dead in the choicest of their graves. None of them would withhold<ref>Rashi Berashis 23:6</ref> their graves from Avrahom burying his dead. Avraham arose and bowed to the Sons of Ches, the people of the land. He answered them that if it was their will<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8">Rashi Berashis 23:8</ref> to allow him to bury Sarah they should listen to him and request<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8"/> from Ephron ben Tzochar that he may give him the Machpelah double cave, that belongs to him which is found at the end of his field. He should give it to Avraham at its full priced value<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> as a burial property in their midst. It was called the Mearos Hamachpela since it was a two story cave<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9">Rashi Berashis 23:9</ref> and because it contained buried couples;<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> currently Adom and Chava and later Avraham and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah. Avraham wished to pay the full price of the land so later the sale could not be contested. Similarly King Dovid purchased the land of the Beis Hamikdash from Araunah at its full value.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/><br />
<br />
Ephron was sitting amongst the people of Ches since he had been appointed as an officer over them that very day and had been raised to greatness due to the importance of Avraham who needed him.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10">Rashi Berashis 23:10</ref> Ephron the Chiti answered Avraham announcing to all the people of Ches who had left their work<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> and came to the city gate, to pay respect to Sarah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> Avraham should listen to him and not purchase it with money,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11">Rashi Berashis 23:11</ref> rather Ephron is giving him the field and the cave that is in it for free in front of his people, and it is as if he has already given it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11"/> to bury his dead. Avraham bowed before the people of the land.<br />
<br />
Avraham replied to Ephron allowing the people of the land to hear, that he is not interested in accepting his offer of giving the field for free.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13">Rashi Berashis 23:13</ref> Rather if Ephron would only<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> listen to him and accept the money that he had prepared<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> and wished he had already given him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> for the field, then he will then bury his dead there.<br />
<br />
Ephron replied to Avraham, telling him that a piece of land that is worth only four hundred shekels of silver, what is its importance between two friends like them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15">Rashi Berashis 23:15</ref> It is not important so let him leave the sale<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15"/> and bury his dead. Avraham listened to Ephron and weighed out to him the 400 shekels of silver that were acceptable by all merchants, which Ephron had requested in front of the people of Ches. Ephron had promised a lot but did not nothing,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16">Rashi Berashis 23:16</ref> originally he declared that he wanted to give the cave as a gift but in the not only did he take the full payment, he took it in extra large Kentrin shekels, each worth 100 coins, that were acceptable everywhere, even in locations that used large shekels.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/> Due to this Ephron had the letter Vav subsequently removed from his name in the Torah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/><br />
<br />
Retrospectively the field of Ephron which was in Machpelah, facing Mamre, was established as Avraham's possession,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17">Rashi Berashis 23:17</ref> thereby rising from the the possession of a simple person to the possession of a king.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17"/> This included the field, the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, within its entire surrounding borders. It became Avraham's possession before the eyes of the Chetim. Ephron sold it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18">Rashi Berashis 23:18</ref> in the midst and presence<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18"/> of all who had come within the city gate.<br />
<br />
===Burial of Sarah===<br />
Afterwards, Avraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, facing Mamre, which is Hebron, in the land of Canaan. The field and the cave within it were established to Avraham as burial property, purchased from the Chitim.<br />
<br />
==Eliezer's Mission==<br />
===Aging of Avraham===<br />
Avraham was old, advanced in days, and Hashem had blessed Avraham with everything including a son,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1">Rashi Berashis 24:1</ref> which he now had to marry off.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1"/><br />
<br />
===Eliezer's Oath===<br />
Avraham asked his servant Eliezer, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that was his; to please place his hand under his thigh. One who swears must hold in his hand a religious item such as a Torah scroll or Tefillin. Since circumcision was Avraham's first mitzvah and he had fulfilled it with pain, it was dear to him; so he choose to use it.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:2">Rashi Berashis 24:2</ref> <br />
<br />
Avraham requested that Eliezer swear by Hashem the G-D of the heaven and earth, that he will not take a wife for Yitzchak from the Canaanites, in whose midst they lived. Rather he was to go to the land of Avraham's birthplace and from there find a wife for his son Yitzchak.<br />
<br />
Eliezer inquired in the case where the woman would not agree to go back with him to the Land of Cannan, would he be permitted to bring Yitchak to Aram Naharaim. Avraham responded, warning Eliezer not to bring Yitzchak there. Rather Hashem the G-D of the heavens Who took him from his father's home in Charun<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7">Rashi Berashis 24:7</ref> and Ur Kasdim<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> the land of his birth and spoke concerning<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> him and swore to him during the Bris Bein Habisarim<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> that He would give the Land of Canaan to his son, He will send His angel before Eliezer, and he should take a wife for Yitzchak from there. When Hashem first took Avraham from his father's home, he was not yet recognized amongst the people, therefore Avraham referenced Hashem only as G-D of the Heavens. Now at the time of the oath due to Avraham's great outreach efforts amongst the people who learned to recognize Hashem, he was able to reference Him as the G-D of both Heaven and Earth.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> If despite this; the woman would not agree to go with Eliezer, he will be absolved of this oath and he may select a wife for Yitzchak from the daughters of Aner, Eshkol and Mamre.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:8">Rashi Berashis 24:8</ref> Eliezer only should do not bring Yitzchak back to Aram Naharaim, although his grandson Yackov is destined to go back.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:8"/><br />
<br />
Eliezer placed his hand under the thigh of Avraham his master and swore to him concerning this matter.<br />
<br />
===Trip to Aram Naharaim===<br />
Eliezer took ten of his master's camels and went to Aram Naharaim to the city of Nachor. Avraham's camels were distinguishable from other camels, since they were muzzled to prevent them from grazing in strangers’ fields, which is a form of stealing.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10">Rashi Berashis 24:10</ref> Eliezer took in his hand a gift contract bequeathing to Yitzchak<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> the best of Avraham's assets and everything he owned.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> This was done to expedite Besuel to send his daughter.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> Aram Naharaim was located between two rivers.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/><br />
<br />
===The Well===<br />
When Eliezer arrived, he made the camels kneel<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:11">Rashi Berashis 24:11</ref> outside the city beside the well of water towards evening. This was the time when the women of the city would come to draw water. <br />
<br />
===Eliezer's Prayer===<br />
Eliezer prayed to Hashem, calling him the G-D of his master Avraham and asking Him to perform a favor for Avraham and have his objectives transpire that day. Since he was standing by the water well and the girls of the city were coming out to draw water, he would do the following test; the girl to whom he will ask to lower her pitcher and allow him to drink water, that will not only allow him to drink but also offer water for his camels, this will clarify<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/> that she must be the one designated by Hashem to marry Yitzchak. If she will perform such acts of kindness, she is was worthy for Yitzchok and fit to enter the house of Avraham.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14">Rashi Berashis 24:14</ref><br />
<br />
Eliezer begged<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/> that through her, Hashem will let him know<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/> that He performed an act of kindness with Avraham, if she ended up being from Avraham's family and worth for Yitzchok.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/><br />
<br />
===Arrival of Rivka===<br />
Before Eliezer finished speaking his prayer, Rivka arrived, with her pitcher on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Besuel, the son of Milka and Nachor, Avraham's brother. She had a nice appearance and never had any form<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:16">Rashi Berashis 24:16</ref> of physical relationships. Unlike the other locals, she was completely clean.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:16"/> Rivka wend down to the well, filed her pitcher and went up.<br />
<br />
After seeing the waters of the well rise towards Rivka,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:17">Rashi Berashis 24:17</ref> Eliezer the servant ran toward her, and aske to please allow him to swallow<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:17"/> a little water from her pitcher. Rivka replied that he should drink and quickly lowered the pitcher from her shoulder to her hand and gave Eliezer to drink.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:18">Rashi Berashis 24:18</ref> <br />
<br />
When she finished giving him to drink, Rivka announced that she would also draw water for all his camels until they had enough, were full<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:19">Rashi Berashis 24:19</ref> and done drinking. She quickly emptied<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:20">Rashi Berashis 24:20</ref> her pitcher into the hollowed stone trench, from which the camels drank<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:20"/> and ran again to the well to draw more water. Rivka continued until she drew water for all his camels.<br />
<br />
Eliezer was astonished by her and stood silent, waiting to know whether or not Hashem had made his mission successful.<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
<br />
{{Weekly Parsha}}<br />
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[[Category:Parsha]]</div>Dunhttp://zissil.com/topics/Parashat-Chayei-SarahParashat-Chayei-Sarah2021-10-28T22:57:35Z<p>Dun: /* Eliezer's Mission */</p>
<hr />
<div>Parshas Chayei Sarah<br />
<br />
==Passing of Sarah==<br />
After hearing about the Akida, how Yitzchak was prepared for slaughter and almost slaughtered, Sarah's soul flew out of her and passed away.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> Her life spanned 127 years, all of them which were equally good.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1">Rashi Berashis 23:1</ref> Sarah was 100 years old but like 20 years old regarding sin, who is not yet liable for punishment and was like a 7 year old regarding beauty.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1"/> She died in Chevron in the Land of Canaan which was also named Kiryas Arba - Settlement of Four after the four giants living there; Achiman, Sheshai, Talmai and their father.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2">Rashi Berashis 23:2</ref> It also alluded to the future destiny of the city which would have four holy couples buried there; Adom and Chava, Avrahom and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/><br />
<br />
==The Burial==<br />
Avrahom came from Beer Sheva<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> to eulogize Sarah and to mourn her.<br />
<br />
===Purchasing the Cave===<br />
Avrahom arose from before his dead, and spoke to the men of Ches. He mentioned how he was a stranger from another land but had settled among them<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/> as an inhabitant of the land. He requested a piece of land<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4">Rashi Berashis 23:4</ref> by them to use as a burial plot, where he could bury his dead from before him. If they were willing to sell it to him, Avrahom would buy it like a stranger but if not he would take it legally as an inhabitant since Hashem had already promised<ref>Berashis 12:7</ref> to give his descendants the Land.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/><br />
<br />
The Sons of Ches answered Avraham calling him a prince of G-D who dwells in their midst and telling him that he could bury his dead in the choicest of their graves. None of them would withhold<ref>Rashi Berashis 23:6</ref> their graves from Avrahom burying his dead. Avraham arose and bowed to the Sons of Ches, the people of the land. He answered them that if it was their will<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8">Rashi Berashis 23:8</ref> to allow him to bury Sarah they should listen to him and request<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8"/> from Ephron ben Tzochar that he may give him the Machpelah double cave, that belongs to him which is found at the end of his field. He should give it to Avraham at its full priced value<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> as a burial property in their midst. It was called the Mearos Hamachpela since it was a two story cave<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9">Rashi Berashis 23:9</ref> and because it contained buried couples;<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> currently Adom and Chava and later Avraham and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah. Avraham wished to pay the full price of the land so later the sale could not be contested. Similarly King Dovid purchased the land of the Beis Hamikdash from Araunah at its full value.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/><br />
<br />
Ephron was sitting amongst the people of Ches since he had been appointed as an officer over them that very day and had been raised to greatness due to the importance of Avraham who needed him.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10">Rashi Berashis 23:10</ref> Ephron the Chiti answered Avraham announcing to all the people of Ches who had left their work<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> and came to the city gate, to pay respect to Sarah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> Avraham should listen to him and not purchase it with money,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11">Rashi Berashis 23:11</ref> rather Ephron is giving him the field and the cave that is in it for free in front of his people, and it is as if he has already given it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11"/> to bury his dead. Avraham bowed before the people of the land.<br />
<br />
Avraham replied to Ephron allowing the people of the land to hear, that he is not interested in accepting his offer of giving the field for free.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13">Rashi Berashis 23:13</ref> Rather if Ephron would only<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> listen to him and accept the money that he had prepared<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> and wished he had already given him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> for the field, then he will then bury his dead there.<br />
<br />
Ephron replied to Avraham, telling him that a piece of land that is worth only four hundred shekels of silver, what is its importance between two friends like them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15">Rashi Berashis 23:15</ref> It is not important so let him leave the sale<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15"/> and bury his dead. Avraham listened to Ephron and weighed out to him the 400 shekels of silver that were acceptable by all merchants, which Ephron had requested in front of the people of Ches. Ephron had promised a lot but did not nothing,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16">Rashi Berashis 23:16</ref> originally he declared that he wanted to give the cave as a gift but in the not only did he take the full payment, he took it in extra large Kentrin shekels, each worth 100 coins, that were acceptable everywhere, even in locations that used large shekels.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/> Due to this Ephron had the letter Vav subsequently removed from his name in the Torah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/><br />
<br />
Retrospectively the field of Ephron which was in Machpelah, facing Mamre, was established as Avraham's possession,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17">Rashi Berashis 23:17</ref> thereby rising from the the possession of a simple person to the possession of a king.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17"/> This included the field, the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, within its entire surrounding borders. It became Avraham's possession before the eyes of the Chetim. Ephron sold it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18">Rashi Berashis 23:18</ref> in the midst and presence<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18"/> of all who had come within the city gate.<br />
<br />
===Burial of Sarah===<br />
Afterwards, Avraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, facing Mamre, which is Hebron, in the land of Canaan. The field and the cave within it were established to Avraham as burial property, purchased from the Chitim.<br />
<br />
==Eliezer's Mission==<br />
===Aging of Avraham===<br />
Avraham was old, advanced in days, and Hashem had blessed Avraham with everything including a son,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1">Rashi Berashis 24:1</ref> which he now had to marry off.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1"/><br />
<br />
===Eliezer's Oath===<br />
Avraham asked his servant Eliezer, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that was his; to please place his hand under his thigh. One who swears must hold in his hand a religious item such as a Torah scroll or Tefillin. Since circumcision was Avraham's first mitzvah and he had fulfilled it with pain, it was dear to him; so he choose to use it.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:2">Rashi Berashis 24:2</ref> <br />
<br />
Avraham requested that Eliezer swear by Hashem the G-D of the heaven and earth, that he will not take a wife for Yitzchak from the Canaanites, in whose midst they lived. Rather he was to go to the land of Avraham's birthplace and from there find a wife for his son Yitzchak.<br />
<br />
Eliezer inquired in the case where the woman would not agree to go back with him to the Land of Cannan, would he be permitted to bring Yitchak to Aram Naharaim. Avraham responded, warning Eliezer not to bring Yitzchak there. Rather Hashem the G-D of the heavens Who took him from his father's home in Charun<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7">Rashi Berashis 24:7</ref> and Ur Kasdim<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> the land of his birth and spoke concerning<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> him and swore to him during the Bris Bein Habisarim<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> that He would give the Land of Canaan to his son, He will send His angel before Eliezer, and he should take a wife for Yitzchak from there. When Hashem first took Avraham from his father's home, he was not yet recognized amongst the people, therefore Avraham referenced Hashem only as G-D of the Heavens. Now at the time of the oath due to Avraham's great outreach efforts amongst the people who learned to recognize Hashem, he was able to reference Him as the G-D of both Heaven and Earth.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> If despite this; the woman would not agree to go with Eliezer, he will be absolved of this oath and he may select a wife for Yitzchak from the daughters of Aner, Eshkol and Mamre.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:8">Rashi Berashis 24:8</ref> Eliezer only should do not bring Yitzchak back to Aram Naharaim, although his grandson Yackov is destined to go back.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:8"/><br />
<br />
Eliezer placed his hand under the thigh of Avraham his master and swore to him concerning this matter.<br />
<br />
===Trip to Aram Naharaim===<br />
Eliezer took ten of his master's camels and went to Aram Naharaim to the city of Nachor. Avraham's camels were distinguishable from other camels, since they were muzzled to prevent them from grazing in strangers’ fields, which is a form of stealing.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10">Rashi Berashis 24:10</ref> Eliezer took in his hand a gift contract bequeathing to Yitzchak<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> the best of Avraham's assets and everything he owned.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> This was done to expedite Besuel to send his daughter.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> Aram Naharaim was located between two rivers.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/><br />
<br />
===The Well===<br />
When Eliezer arrived, he made the camels kneel<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:11">Rashi Berashis 24:11</ref> outside the city beside the well of water towards evening. This was the time when the women of the city would come to draw water. <br />
<br />
===Eliezer's Prayer===<br />
Eliezer prayed to Hashem, calling him the G-D of his master Avraham and asking Him to perform a favor for Avraham and have his objectives transpire that day. Since he was standing by the water well and the girls of the city were coming out to draw water, he would do the following test; the girl to whom he will ask to lower her pitcher and allow him to drink water, that will not only allow him to drink but also offer water for his camels, this will clarify<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/> that she must be the one designated by Hashem to marry Yitzchak. If she will perform such acts of kindness, she is was worthy for Yitzchok and fit to enter the house of Avraham.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14">Rashi Berashis 24:14</ref><br />
<br />
Eliezer begged<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/> that through her, Hashem will let him know<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/> that He performed an act of kindness with Avraham, if she ended up being from Avraham's family and worth for Yitzchok.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/><br />
<br />
===Arrival of Rivka===<br />
Before Eliezer finished speaking his prayer, Rivka arrived, with her pitcher on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Besuel, the son of Milka and Nachor, Avraham's brother. She had a nice appearance and never had any form<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:16">Rashi Berashis 24:16</ref> of physical relationships. Unlike the other locals, she was completely clean.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:16"/> Rivka wend down to the well, filed her pitcher and went up.<br />
<br />
After seeing the waters of the well rise towards Rivka,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:17">Rashi Berashis 24:17</ref> Eliezer the servant ran toward her, and aske to please allow him to swallow<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:17"/> a little water from her pitcher. Rivka replied that he should drink and quickly lowered the pitcher from her shoulder to her hand and gave Eliezer to drink.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:18">Rashi Berashis 24:18</ref> <br />
<br />
When she finished giving him to drink, Rivka announced that she would also draw water for all his camels until they had enough, were full<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:19">Rashi Berashis 24:19</ref> and done drinking. She quickly emptied<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:20">Rashi Berashis 24:20</ref> her pitcher into the hollowed stone trench, from which the camels drank<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:20"/> and ran again to the well to draw more water. Rivka continued until she drew water for all his camels.<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
<br />
{{Weekly Parsha}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Parsha]]</div>Dunhttp://zissil.com/topics/Parashat-Chayei-SarahParashat-Chayei-Sarah2021-10-28T22:51:23Z<p>Dun: /* Marriage of Yitzchak */</p>
<hr />
<div>Parshas Chayei Sarah<br />
<br />
==Passing of Sarah==<br />
After hearing about the Akida, how Yitzchak was prepared for slaughter and almost slaughtered, Sarah's soul flew out of her and passed away.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> Her life spanned 127 years, all of them which were equally good.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1">Rashi Berashis 23:1</ref> Sarah was 100 years old but like 20 years old regarding sin, who is not yet liable for punishment and was like a 7 year old regarding beauty.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1"/> She died in Chevron in the Land of Canaan which was also named Kiryas Arba - Settlement of Four after the four giants living there; Achiman, Sheshai, Talmai and their father.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2">Rashi Berashis 23:2</ref> It also alluded to the future destiny of the city which would have four holy couples buried there; Adom and Chava, Avrahom and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/><br />
<br />
==The Burial==<br />
Avrahom came from Beer Sheva<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> to eulogize Sarah and to mourn her.<br />
<br />
===Purchasing the Cave===<br />
Avrahom arose from before his dead, and spoke to the men of Ches. He mentioned how he was a stranger from another land but had settled among them<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/> as an inhabitant of the land. He requested a piece of land<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4">Rashi Berashis 23:4</ref> by them to use as a burial plot, where he could bury his dead from before him. If they were willing to sell it to him, Avrahom would buy it like a stranger but if not he would take it legally as an inhabitant since Hashem had already promised<ref>Berashis 12:7</ref> to give his descendants the Land.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/><br />
<br />
The Sons of Ches answered Avraham calling him a prince of G-D who dwells in their midst and telling him that he could bury his dead in the choicest of their graves. None of them would withhold<ref>Rashi Berashis 23:6</ref> their graves from Avrahom burying his dead. Avraham arose and bowed to the Sons of Ches, the people of the land. He answered them that if it was their will<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8">Rashi Berashis 23:8</ref> to allow him to bury Sarah they should listen to him and request<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8"/> from Ephron ben Tzochar that he may give him the Machpelah double cave, that belongs to him which is found at the end of his field. He should give it to Avraham at its full priced value<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> as a burial property in their midst. It was called the Mearos Hamachpela since it was a two story cave<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9">Rashi Berashis 23:9</ref> and because it contained buried couples;<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> currently Adom and Chava and later Avraham and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah. Avraham wished to pay the full price of the land so later the sale could not be contested. Similarly King Dovid purchased the land of the Beis Hamikdash from Araunah at its full value.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/><br />
<br />
Ephron was sitting amongst the people of Ches since he had been appointed as an officer over them that very day and had been raised to greatness due to the importance of Avraham who needed him.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10">Rashi Berashis 23:10</ref> Ephron the Chiti answered Avraham announcing to all the people of Ches who had left their work<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> and came to the city gate, to pay respect to Sarah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> Avraham should listen to him and not purchase it with money,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11">Rashi Berashis 23:11</ref> rather Ephron is giving him the field and the cave that is in it for free in front of his people, and it is as if he has already given it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11"/> to bury his dead. Avraham bowed before the people of the land.<br />
<br />
Avraham replied to Ephron allowing the people of the land to hear, that he is not interested in accepting his offer of giving the field for free.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13">Rashi Berashis 23:13</ref> Rather if Ephron would only<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> listen to him and accept the money that he had prepared<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> and wished he had already given him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> for the field, then he will then bury his dead there.<br />
<br />
Ephron replied to Avraham, telling him that a piece of land that is worth only four hundred shekels of silver, what is its importance between two friends like them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15">Rashi Berashis 23:15</ref> It is not important so let him leave the sale<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15"/> and bury his dead. Avraham listened to Ephron and weighed out to him the 400 shekels of silver that were acceptable by all merchants, which Ephron had requested in front of the people of Ches. Ephron had promised a lot but did not nothing,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16">Rashi Berashis 23:16</ref> originally he declared that he wanted to give the cave as a gift but in the not only did he take the full payment, he took it in extra large Kentrin shekels, each worth 100 coins, that were acceptable everywhere, even in locations that used large shekels.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/> Due to this Ephron had the letter Vav subsequently removed from his name in the Torah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/><br />
<br />
Retrospectively the field of Ephron which was in Machpelah, facing Mamre, was established as Avraham's possession,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17">Rashi Berashis 23:17</ref> thereby rising from the the possession of a simple person to the possession of a king.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17"/> This included the field, the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, within its entire surrounding borders. It became Avraham's possession before the eyes of the Chetim. Ephron sold it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18">Rashi Berashis 23:18</ref> in the midst and presence<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18"/> of all who had come within the city gate.<br />
<br />
===Burial of Sarah===<br />
Afterwards, Avraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, facing Mamre, which is Hebron, in the land of Canaan. The field and the cave within it were established to Avraham as burial property, purchased from the Chitim.<br />
<br />
==Eliezer's Mission==<br />
===Aging of Avraham===<br />
Avraham was old, advanced in days, and Hashem had blessed Avraham with everything including a son,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1">Rashi Berashis 24:1</ref> which he now had to marry off.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1"/><br />
<br />
===Eliezer's Oath===<br />
Avraham asked his servant Eliezer, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that was his; to please place his hand under his thigh. One who swears must hold in his hand a religious item such as a Torah scroll or Tefillin. Since circumcision was Avraham's first mitzvah and he had fulfilled it with pain, it was dear to him; so he choose to use it.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:2">Rashi Berashis 24:2</ref> <br />
<br />
Avraham requested that Eliezer swear by Hashem the G-D of the heaven and earth, that he will not take a wife for Yitzchak from the Canaanites, in whose midst they lived. Rather he was to go to the land of Avraham's birthplace and from there find a wife for his son Yitzchak.<br />
<br />
Eliezer inquired in the case where the woman would not agree to go back with him to the Land of Cannan, would he be permitted to bring Yitchak to Aram Naharaim. Avraham responded, warning Eliezer not to bring Yitzchak there. Rather Hashem the G-D of the heavens Who took him from his father's home in Charun<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7">Rashi Berashis 24:7</ref> and Ur Kasdim<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> the land of his birth and spoke concerning<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> him and swore to him during the Bris Bein Habisarim<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> that He would give the Land of Canaan to his son, He will send His angel before Eliezer, and he should take a wife for Yitzchak from there. When Hashem first took Avraham from his father's home, he was not yet recognized amongst the people, therefore Avraham referenced Hashem only as G-D of the Heavens. Now at the time of the oath due to Avraham's great outreach efforts amongst the people who learned to recognize Hashem, he was able to reference Him as the G-D of both Heaven and Earth.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> If despite this; the woman would not agree to go with Eliezer, he will be absolved of this oath and he may select a wife for Yitzchak from the daughters of Aner, Eshkol and Mamre.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:8">Rashi Berashis 24:8</ref> Eliezer only should do not bring Yitzchak back to Aram Naharaim, although his grandson Yackov is destined to go back.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:8"/><br />
<br />
Eliezer placed his hand under the thigh of Avraham his master and swore to him concerning this matter.<br />
<br />
===Trip to Aram Naharaim===<br />
Eliezer took ten of his master's camels and went to Aram Naharaim to the city of Nachor. Avraham's camels were distinguishable from other camels, since they were muzzled to prevent them from grazing in strangers’ fields, which is a form of stealing.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10">Rashi Berashis 24:10</ref> Eliezer took in his hand a gift contract bequeathing to Yitzchak<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> the best of Avraham's assets and everything he owned.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> This was done to expedite Besuel to send his daughter.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> Aram Naharaim was located between two rivers.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/><br />
<br />
===The Well===<br />
When Eliezer arrived, he made the camels kneel<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:11">Rashi Berashis 24:11</ref> outside the city beside the well of water towards evening. This was the time when the women of the city would come to draw water. <br />
<br />
===Eliezer's Prayer===<br />
Eliezer prayed to Hashem, calling him the G-D of his master Avraham and asking Him to perform a favor for Avraham and have his objectives transpire that day. Since he was standing by the water well and the girls of the city were coming out to draw water, he would do the following test; the girl to whom he will ask to lower her pitcher and allow him to drink water, that will not only allow him to drink but also offer water for his camels, this will clarify<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/> that she must be the one designated by Hashem to marry Yitzchak. If she will perform such acts of kindness, she is was worthy for Yitzchok and fit to enter the house of Avraham.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14">Rashi Berashis 24:14</ref><br />
<br />
Eliezer begged<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/> that through her, Hashem will let him know<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/> that He performed an act of kindness with Avraham, if she ended up being from Avraham's family and worth for Yitzchok.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/><br />
<br />
===Arrival of Rivka===<br />
Before Eliezer finished speaking his prayer, Rivka arrived, with her pitcher on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Besuel, the son of Milka and Nachor, Avraham's brother. She had a nice appearance and never had any form<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:16">Rashi Berashis 24:16</ref> of physical relationships. Unlike the other locals, she was completely clean.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:16"/> Rivka wend down to the well, filed her pitcher and went up.<br />
<br />
After seeing the waters of the well rise towards Rivka,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:17">Rashi Berashis 24:17</ref> Eliezer the servant ran toward her, and aske to please allow him to swallow<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:17"/> a little water from her pitcher. Rivka replied that he should drink and quickly lowered the pitcher from her shoulder to her hand and gave Eliezer to drink.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:18">Rashi Berashis 24:18</ref> <br />
<br />
When she finished giving him to drink, Rivka announced that she would also draw water for all his camels until they had enough, were full<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:19">Rashi Berashis 24:19</ref> and done drinking.<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
<br />
{{Weekly Parsha}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Parsha]]</div>Dunhttp://zissil.com/topics/Parashat-Chayei-SarahParashat-Chayei-Sarah2021-10-28T22:50:54Z<p>Dun: /* The Well */</p>
<hr />
<div>Parshas Chayei Sarah<br />
<br />
==Passing of Sarah==<br />
After hearing about the Akida, how Yitzchak was prepared for slaughter and almost slaughtered, Sarah's soul flew out of her and passed away.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> Her life spanned 127 years, all of them which were equally good.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1">Rashi Berashis 23:1</ref> Sarah was 100 years old but like 20 years old regarding sin, who is not yet liable for punishment and was like a 7 year old regarding beauty.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1"/> She died in Chevron in the Land of Canaan which was also named Kiryas Arba - Settlement of Four after the four giants living there; Achiman, Sheshai, Talmai and their father.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2">Rashi Berashis 23:2</ref> It also alluded to the future destiny of the city which would have four holy couples buried there; Adom and Chava, Avrahom and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/><br />
<br />
==The Burial==<br />
Avrahom came from Beer Sheva<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> to eulogize Sarah and to mourn her.<br />
<br />
===Purchasing the Cave===<br />
Avrahom arose from before his dead, and spoke to the men of Ches. He mentioned how he was a stranger from another land but had settled among them<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/> as an inhabitant of the land. He requested a piece of land<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4">Rashi Berashis 23:4</ref> by them to use as a burial plot, where he could bury his dead from before him. If they were willing to sell it to him, Avrahom would buy it like a stranger but if not he would take it legally as an inhabitant since Hashem had already promised<ref>Berashis 12:7</ref> to give his descendants the Land.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/><br />
<br />
The Sons of Ches answered Avraham calling him a prince of G-D who dwells in their midst and telling him that he could bury his dead in the choicest of their graves. None of them would withhold<ref>Rashi Berashis 23:6</ref> their graves from Avrahom burying his dead. Avraham arose and bowed to the Sons of Ches, the people of the land. He answered them that if it was their will<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8">Rashi Berashis 23:8</ref> to allow him to bury Sarah they should listen to him and request<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8"/> from Ephron ben Tzochar that he may give him the Machpelah double cave, that belongs to him which is found at the end of his field. He should give it to Avraham at its full priced value<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> as a burial property in their midst. It was called the Mearos Hamachpela since it was a two story cave<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9">Rashi Berashis 23:9</ref> and because it contained buried couples;<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> currently Adom and Chava and later Avraham and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah. Avraham wished to pay the full price of the land so later the sale could not be contested. Similarly King Dovid purchased the land of the Beis Hamikdash from Araunah at its full value.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/><br />
<br />
Ephron was sitting amongst the people of Ches since he had been appointed as an officer over them that very day and had been raised to greatness due to the importance of Avraham who needed him.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10">Rashi Berashis 23:10</ref> Ephron the Chiti answered Avraham announcing to all the people of Ches who had left their work<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> and came to the city gate, to pay respect to Sarah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> Avraham should listen to him and not purchase it with money,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11">Rashi Berashis 23:11</ref> rather Ephron is giving him the field and the cave that is in it for free in front of his people, and it is as if he has already given it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11"/> to bury his dead. Avraham bowed before the people of the land.<br />
<br />
Avraham replied to Ephron allowing the people of the land to hear, that he is not interested in accepting his offer of giving the field for free.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13">Rashi Berashis 23:13</ref> Rather if Ephron would only<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> listen to him and accept the money that he had prepared<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> and wished he had already given him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> for the field, then he will then bury his dead there.<br />
<br />
Ephron replied to Avraham, telling him that a piece of land that is worth only four hundred shekels of silver, what is its importance between two friends like them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15">Rashi Berashis 23:15</ref> It is not important so let him leave the sale<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15"/> and bury his dead. Avraham listened to Ephron and weighed out to him the 400 shekels of silver that were acceptable by all merchants, which Ephron had requested in front of the people of Ches. Ephron had promised a lot but did not nothing,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16">Rashi Berashis 23:16</ref> originally he declared that he wanted to give the cave as a gift but in the not only did he take the full payment, he took it in extra large Kentrin shekels, each worth 100 coins, that were acceptable everywhere, even in locations that used large shekels.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/> Due to this Ephron had the letter Vav subsequently removed from his name in the Torah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/><br />
<br />
Retrospectively the field of Ephron which was in Machpelah, facing Mamre, was established as Avraham's possession,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17">Rashi Berashis 23:17</ref> thereby rising from the the possession of a simple person to the possession of a king.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17"/> This included the field, the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, within its entire surrounding borders. It became Avraham's possession before the eyes of the Chetim. Ephron sold it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18">Rashi Berashis 23:18</ref> in the midst and presence<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18"/> of all who had come within the city gate.<br />
<br />
===Burial of Sarah===<br />
Afterwards, Avraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, facing Mamre, which is Hebron, in the land of Canaan. The field and the cave within it were established to Avraham as burial property, purchased from the Chitim.<br />
<br />
==Marriage of Yitzchak==<br />
===Aging of Avraham===<br />
Avraham was old, advanced in days, and Hashem had blessed Avraham with everything including a son,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1">Rashi Berashis 24:1</ref> which he now had to marry off.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1"/><br />
<br />
===Eliezer's Oath===<br />
Avraham asked his servant Eliezer, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that was his; to please place his hand under his thigh. One who swears must hold in his hand a religious item such as a Torah scroll or Tefillin. Since circumcision was Avraham's first mitzvah and he had fulfilled it with pain, it was dear to him; so he choose to use it.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:2">Rashi Berashis 24:2</ref> <br />
<br />
Avraham requested that Eliezer swear by Hashem the G-D of the heaven and earth, that he will not take a wife for Yitzchak from the Canaanites, in whose midst they lived. Rather he was to go to the land of Avraham's birthplace and from there find a wife for his son Yitzchak.<br />
<br />
Eliezer inquired in the case where the woman would not agree to go back with him to the Land of Cannan, would he be permitted to bring Yitchak to Aram Naharaim. Avraham responded, warning Eliezer not to bring Yitzchak there. Rather Hashem the G-D of the heavens Who took him from his father's home in Charun<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7">Rashi Berashis 24:7</ref> and Ur Kasdim<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> the land of his birth and spoke concerning<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> him and swore to him during the Bris Bein Habisarim<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> that He would give the Land of Canaan to his son, He will send His angel before Eliezer, and he should take a wife for Yitzchak from there. When Hashem first took Avraham from his father's home, he was not yet recognized amongst the people, therefore Avraham referenced Hashem only as G-D of the Heavens. Now at the time of the oath due to Avraham's great outreach efforts amongst the people who learned to recognize Hashem, he was able to reference Him as the G-D of both Heaven and Earth.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> If despite this; the woman would not agree to go with Eliezer, he will be absolved of this oath and he may select a wife for Yitzchak from the daughters of Aner, Eshkol and Mamre.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:8">Rashi Berashis 24:8</ref> Eliezer only should do not bring Yitzchak back to Aram Naharaim, although his grandson Yackov is destined to go back.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:8"/><br />
<br />
Eliezer placed his hand under the thigh of Avraham his master and swore to him concerning this matter.<br />
<br />
===Trip to Aram Naharaim===<br />
Eliezer took ten of his master's camels and went to Aram Naharaim to the city of Nachor. Avraham's camels were distinguishable from other camels, since they were muzzled to prevent them from grazing in strangers’ fields, which is a form of stealing.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10">Rashi Berashis 24:10</ref> Eliezer took in his hand a gift contract bequeathing to Yitzchak<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> the best of Avraham's assets and everything he owned.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> This was done to expedite Besuel to send his daughter.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> Aram Naharaim was located between two rivers.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/><br />
<br />
===The Well===<br />
When Eliezer arrived, he made the camels kneel<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:11">Rashi Berashis 24:11</ref> outside the city beside the well of water towards evening. This was the time when the women of the city would come to draw water. <br />
<br />
===Eliezer's Prayer===<br />
Eliezer prayed to Hashem, calling him the G-D of his master Avraham and asking Him to perform a favor for Avraham and have his objectives transpire that day. Since he was standing by the water well and the girls of the city were coming out to draw water, he would do the following test; the girl to whom he will ask to lower her pitcher and allow him to drink water, that will not only allow him to drink but also offer water for his camels, this will clarify<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/> that she must be the one designated by Hashem to marry Yitzchak. If she will perform such acts of kindness, she is was worthy for Yitzchok and fit to enter the house of Avraham.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14">Rashi Berashis 24:14</ref><br />
<br />
Eliezer begged<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/> that through her, Hashem will let him know<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/> that He performed an act of kindness with Avraham, if she ended up being from Avraham's family and worth for Yitzchok.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/><br />
<br />
===Arrival of Rivka===<br />
Before Eliezer finished speaking his prayer, Rivka arrived, with her pitcher on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Besuel, the son of Milka and Nachor, Avraham's brother. She had a nice appearance and never had any form<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:16">Rashi Berashis 24:16</ref> of physical relationships. Unlike the other locals, she was completely clean.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:16"/> Rivka wend down to the well, filed her pitcher and went up.<br />
<br />
After seeing the waters of the well rise towards Rivka,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:17">Rashi Berashis 24:17</ref> Eliezer the servant ran toward her, and aske to please allow him to swallow<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:17"/> a little water from her pitcher. Rivka replied that he should drink and quickly lowered the pitcher from her shoulder to her hand and gave Eliezer to drink.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:18">Rashi Berashis 24:18</ref> <br />
<br />
When she finished giving him to drink, Rivka announced that she would also draw water for all his camels until they had enough, were full<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:19">Rashi Berashis 24:19</ref> and done drinking.<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
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{{Weekly Parsha}}<br />
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[[Category:Parsha]]</div>Dunhttp://zissil.com/topics/Parashat-Chayei-SarahParashat-Chayei-Sarah2021-10-28T22:46:53Z<p>Dun: /* The Well */</p>
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<div>Parshas Chayei Sarah<br />
<br />
==Passing of Sarah==<br />
After hearing about the Akida, how Yitzchak was prepared for slaughter and almost slaughtered, Sarah's soul flew out of her and passed away.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> Her life spanned 127 years, all of them which were equally good.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1">Rashi Berashis 23:1</ref> Sarah was 100 years old but like 20 years old regarding sin, who is not yet liable for punishment and was like a 7 year old regarding beauty.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1"/> She died in Chevron in the Land of Canaan which was also named Kiryas Arba - Settlement of Four after the four giants living there; Achiman, Sheshai, Talmai and their father.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2">Rashi Berashis 23:2</ref> It also alluded to the future destiny of the city which would have four holy couples buried there; Adom and Chava, Avrahom and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/><br />
<br />
==The Burial==<br />
Avrahom came from Beer Sheva<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> to eulogize Sarah and to mourn her.<br />
<br />
===Purchasing the Cave===<br />
Avrahom arose from before his dead, and spoke to the men of Ches. He mentioned how he was a stranger from another land but had settled among them<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/> as an inhabitant of the land. He requested a piece of land<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4">Rashi Berashis 23:4</ref> by them to use as a burial plot, where he could bury his dead from before him. If they were willing to sell it to him, Avrahom would buy it like a stranger but if not he would take it legally as an inhabitant since Hashem had already promised<ref>Berashis 12:7</ref> to give his descendants the Land.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/><br />
<br />
The Sons of Ches answered Avraham calling him a prince of G-D who dwells in their midst and telling him that he could bury his dead in the choicest of their graves. None of them would withhold<ref>Rashi Berashis 23:6</ref> their graves from Avrahom burying his dead. Avraham arose and bowed to the Sons of Ches, the people of the land. He answered them that if it was their will<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8">Rashi Berashis 23:8</ref> to allow him to bury Sarah they should listen to him and request<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8"/> from Ephron ben Tzochar that he may give him the Machpelah double cave, that belongs to him which is found at the end of his field. He should give it to Avraham at its full priced value<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> as a burial property in their midst. It was called the Mearos Hamachpela since it was a two story cave<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9">Rashi Berashis 23:9</ref> and because it contained buried couples;<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> currently Adom and Chava and later Avraham and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah. Avraham wished to pay the full price of the land so later the sale could not be contested. Similarly King Dovid purchased the land of the Beis Hamikdash from Araunah at its full value.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/><br />
<br />
Ephron was sitting amongst the people of Ches since he had been appointed as an officer over them that very day and had been raised to greatness due to the importance of Avraham who needed him.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10">Rashi Berashis 23:10</ref> Ephron the Chiti answered Avraham announcing to all the people of Ches who had left their work<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> and came to the city gate, to pay respect to Sarah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> Avraham should listen to him and not purchase it with money,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11">Rashi Berashis 23:11</ref> rather Ephron is giving him the field and the cave that is in it for free in front of his people, and it is as if he has already given it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11"/> to bury his dead. Avraham bowed before the people of the land.<br />
<br />
Avraham replied to Ephron allowing the people of the land to hear, that he is not interested in accepting his offer of giving the field for free.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13">Rashi Berashis 23:13</ref> Rather if Ephron would only<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> listen to him and accept the money that he had prepared<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> and wished he had already given him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> for the field, then he will then bury his dead there.<br />
<br />
Ephron replied to Avraham, telling him that a piece of land that is worth only four hundred shekels of silver, what is its importance between two friends like them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15">Rashi Berashis 23:15</ref> It is not important so let him leave the sale<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15"/> and bury his dead. Avraham listened to Ephron and weighed out to him the 400 shekels of silver that were acceptable by all merchants, which Ephron had requested in front of the people of Ches. Ephron had promised a lot but did not nothing,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16">Rashi Berashis 23:16</ref> originally he declared that he wanted to give the cave as a gift but in the not only did he take the full payment, he took it in extra large Kentrin shekels, each worth 100 coins, that were acceptable everywhere, even in locations that used large shekels.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/> Due to this Ephron had the letter Vav subsequently removed from his name in the Torah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/><br />
<br />
Retrospectively the field of Ephron which was in Machpelah, facing Mamre, was established as Avraham's possession,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17">Rashi Berashis 23:17</ref> thereby rising from the the possession of a simple person to the possession of a king.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17"/> This included the field, the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, within its entire surrounding borders. It became Avraham's possession before the eyes of the Chetim. Ephron sold it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18">Rashi Berashis 23:18</ref> in the midst and presence<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18"/> of all who had come within the city gate.<br />
<br />
===Burial of Sarah===<br />
Afterwards, Avraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, facing Mamre, which is Hebron, in the land of Canaan. The field and the cave within it were established to Avraham as burial property, purchased from the Chitim.<br />
<br />
==Marriage of Yitzchak==<br />
===Aging of Avraham===<br />
Avraham was old, advanced in days, and Hashem had blessed Avraham with everything including a son,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1">Rashi Berashis 24:1</ref> which he now had to marry off.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1"/><br />
<br />
===Eliezer's Oath===<br />
Avraham asked his servant Eliezer, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that was his; to please place his hand under his thigh. One who swears must hold in his hand a religious item such as a Torah scroll or Tefillin. Since circumcision was Avraham's first mitzvah and he had fulfilled it with pain, it was dear to him; so he choose to use it.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:2">Rashi Berashis 24:2</ref> <br />
<br />
Avraham requested that Eliezer swear by Hashem the G-D of the heaven and earth, that he will not take a wife for Yitzchak from the Canaanites, in whose midst they lived. Rather he was to go to the land of Avraham's birthplace and from there find a wife for his son Yitzchak.<br />
<br />
Eliezer inquired in the case where the woman would not agree to go back with him to the Land of Cannan, would he be permitted to bring Yitchak to Aram Naharaim. Avraham responded, warning Eliezer not to bring Yitzchak there. Rather Hashem the G-D of the heavens Who took him from his father's home in Charun<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7">Rashi Berashis 24:7</ref> and Ur Kasdim<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> the land of his birth and spoke concerning<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> him and swore to him during the Bris Bein Habisarim<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> that He would give the Land of Canaan to his son, He will send His angel before Eliezer, and he should take a wife for Yitzchak from there. When Hashem first took Avraham from his father's home, he was not yet recognized amongst the people, therefore Avraham referenced Hashem only as G-D of the Heavens. Now at the time of the oath due to Avraham's great outreach efforts amongst the people who learned to recognize Hashem, he was able to reference Him as the G-D of both Heaven and Earth.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> If despite this; the woman would not agree to go with Eliezer, he will be absolved of this oath and he may select a wife for Yitzchak from the daughters of Aner, Eshkol and Mamre.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:8">Rashi Berashis 24:8</ref> Eliezer only should do not bring Yitzchak back to Aram Naharaim, although his grandson Yackov is destined to go back.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:8"/><br />
<br />
Eliezer placed his hand under the thigh of Avraham his master and swore to him concerning this matter.<br />
<br />
===Trip to Aram Naharaim===<br />
Eliezer took ten of his master's camels and went to Aram Naharaim to the city of Nachor. Avraham's camels were distinguishable from other camels, since they were muzzled to prevent them from grazing in strangers’ fields, which is a form of stealing.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10">Rashi Berashis 24:10</ref> Eliezer took in his hand a gift contract bequeathing to Yitzchak<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> the best of Avraham's assets and everything he owned.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> This was done to expedite Besuel to send his daughter.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> Aram Naharaim was located between two rivers.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/><br />
<br />
===The Well===<br />
When Eliezer arrived, he made the camels kneel<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:11">Rashi Berashis 24:11</ref> outside the city beside the well of water towards evening. This was the time when the women of the city would come to draw water. <br />
<br />
Eliezer prayed to Hashem, calling him the G-D of his master Avraham and asking Him to perform a favor for Avraham and have his objectives transpire that day. Since he was standing by the water well and the girls of the city were coming out to draw water, he would do the following test; the girl to whom he will ask to lower her pitcher and allow him to drink water, that will not only allow him to drink but also offer water for his camels, this will clarify<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/> that she must be the one designated by Hashem to marry Yitzchak. If she will perform such acts of kindness, she is was worthy for Yitzchok and fit to enter the house of Avraham.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14">Rashi Berashis 24:14</ref><br />
<br />
Eliezer begged<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/> that through her, Hashem will let him know<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/> that He performed an act of kindness with Avraham, if she ended up being from Avraham's family and worth for Yitzchok.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/><br />
<br />
Before Eliezer finished speaking his prayer, Rivka arrived, with her pitcher on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Besuel, the son of Milka and Nachor, Avraham's brother. She had a nice appearance and never had any form<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:16">Rashi Berashis 24:16</ref> of physical relationships. Unlike the other locals, she was completely clean.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:16"/> Rivka wend down to the well, filed her pitcher and went up.<br />
<br />
After seeing the waters of the well rise towards Rivka,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:17">Rashi Berashis 24:17</ref> Eliezer the servant ran toward her, and aske to please allow him to swallow<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:17"/> a little water from her pitcher. Rivka replied that he should drink and quickly lowered the pitcher from her shoulder to her hand and gave Eliezer to drink.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:18">Rashi Berashis 24:18</ref> When she finished giving him to drink, Rivka announced that she would also draw water for all his camels until they are done drinking.<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
<br />
{{Weekly Parsha}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Parsha]]</div>Dunhttp://zissil.com/topics/Parashat-Chayei-SarahParashat-Chayei-Sarah2021-10-28T22:42:22Z<p>Dun: /* The Well */</p>
<hr />
<div>Parshas Chayei Sarah<br />
<br />
==Passing of Sarah==<br />
After hearing about the Akida, how Yitzchak was prepared for slaughter and almost slaughtered, Sarah's soul flew out of her and passed away.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> Her life spanned 127 years, all of them which were equally good.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1">Rashi Berashis 23:1</ref> Sarah was 100 years old but like 20 years old regarding sin, who is not yet liable for punishment and was like a 7 year old regarding beauty.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1"/> She died in Chevron in the Land of Canaan which was also named Kiryas Arba - Settlement of Four after the four giants living there; Achiman, Sheshai, Talmai and their father.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2">Rashi Berashis 23:2</ref> It also alluded to the future destiny of the city which would have four holy couples buried there; Adom and Chava, Avrahom and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/><br />
<br />
==The Burial==<br />
Avrahom came from Beer Sheva<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> to eulogize Sarah and to mourn her.<br />
<br />
===Purchasing the Cave===<br />
Avrahom arose from before his dead, and spoke to the men of Ches. He mentioned how he was a stranger from another land but had settled among them<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/> as an inhabitant of the land. He requested a piece of land<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4">Rashi Berashis 23:4</ref> by them to use as a burial plot, where he could bury his dead from before him. If they were willing to sell it to him, Avrahom would buy it like a stranger but if not he would take it legally as an inhabitant since Hashem had already promised<ref>Berashis 12:7</ref> to give his descendants the Land.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/><br />
<br />
The Sons of Ches answered Avraham calling him a prince of G-D who dwells in their midst and telling him that he could bury his dead in the choicest of their graves. None of them would withhold<ref>Rashi Berashis 23:6</ref> their graves from Avrahom burying his dead. Avraham arose and bowed to the Sons of Ches, the people of the land. He answered them that if it was their will<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8">Rashi Berashis 23:8</ref> to allow him to bury Sarah they should listen to him and request<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8"/> from Ephron ben Tzochar that he may give him the Machpelah double cave, that belongs to him which is found at the end of his field. He should give it to Avraham at its full priced value<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> as a burial property in their midst. It was called the Mearos Hamachpela since it was a two story cave<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9">Rashi Berashis 23:9</ref> and because it contained buried couples;<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> currently Adom and Chava and later Avraham and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah. Avraham wished to pay the full price of the land so later the sale could not be contested. Similarly King Dovid purchased the land of the Beis Hamikdash from Araunah at its full value.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/><br />
<br />
Ephron was sitting amongst the people of Ches since he had been appointed as an officer over them that very day and had been raised to greatness due to the importance of Avraham who needed him.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10">Rashi Berashis 23:10</ref> Ephron the Chiti answered Avraham announcing to all the people of Ches who had left their work<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> and came to the city gate, to pay respect to Sarah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> Avraham should listen to him and not purchase it with money,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11">Rashi Berashis 23:11</ref> rather Ephron is giving him the field and the cave that is in it for free in front of his people, and it is as if he has already given it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11"/> to bury his dead. Avraham bowed before the people of the land.<br />
<br />
Avraham replied to Ephron allowing the people of the land to hear, that he is not interested in accepting his offer of giving the field for free.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13">Rashi Berashis 23:13</ref> Rather if Ephron would only<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> listen to him and accept the money that he had prepared<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> and wished he had already given him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> for the field, then he will then bury his dead there.<br />
<br />
Ephron replied to Avraham, telling him that a piece of land that is worth only four hundred shekels of silver, what is its importance between two friends like them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15">Rashi Berashis 23:15</ref> It is not important so let him leave the sale<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15"/> and bury his dead. Avraham listened to Ephron and weighed out to him the 400 shekels of silver that were acceptable by all merchants, which Ephron had requested in front of the people of Ches. Ephron had promised a lot but did not nothing,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16">Rashi Berashis 23:16</ref> originally he declared that he wanted to give the cave as a gift but in the not only did he take the full payment, he took it in extra large Kentrin shekels, each worth 100 coins, that were acceptable everywhere, even in locations that used large shekels.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/> Due to this Ephron had the letter Vav subsequently removed from his name in the Torah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/><br />
<br />
Retrospectively the field of Ephron which was in Machpelah, facing Mamre, was established as Avraham's possession,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17">Rashi Berashis 23:17</ref> thereby rising from the the possession of a simple person to the possession of a king.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17"/> This included the field, the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, within its entire surrounding borders. It became Avraham's possession before the eyes of the Chetim. Ephron sold it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18">Rashi Berashis 23:18</ref> in the midst and presence<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18"/> of all who had come within the city gate.<br />
<br />
===Burial of Sarah===<br />
Afterwards, Avraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, facing Mamre, which is Hebron, in the land of Canaan. The field and the cave within it were established to Avraham as burial property, purchased from the Chitim.<br />
<br />
==Marriage of Yitzchak==<br />
===Aging of Avraham===<br />
Avraham was old, advanced in days, and Hashem had blessed Avraham with everything including a son,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1">Rashi Berashis 24:1</ref> which he now had to marry off.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1"/><br />
<br />
===Eliezer's Oath===<br />
Avraham asked his servant Eliezer, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that was his; to please place his hand under his thigh. One who swears must hold in his hand a religious item such as a Torah scroll or Tefillin. Since circumcision was Avraham's first mitzvah and he had fulfilled it with pain, it was dear to him; so he choose to use it.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:2">Rashi Berashis 24:2</ref> <br />
<br />
Avraham requested that Eliezer swear by Hashem the G-D of the heaven and earth, that he will not take a wife for Yitzchak from the Canaanites, in whose midst they lived. Rather he was to go to the land of Avraham's birthplace and from there find a wife for his son Yitzchak.<br />
<br />
Eliezer inquired in the case where the woman would not agree to go back with him to the Land of Cannan, would he be permitted to bring Yitchak to Aram Naharaim. Avraham responded, warning Eliezer not to bring Yitzchak there. Rather Hashem the G-D of the heavens Who took him from his father's home in Charun<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7">Rashi Berashis 24:7</ref> and Ur Kasdim<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> the land of his birth and spoke concerning<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> him and swore to him during the Bris Bein Habisarim<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> that He would give the Land of Canaan to his son, He will send His angel before Eliezer, and he should take a wife for Yitzchak from there. When Hashem first took Avraham from his father's home, he was not yet recognized amongst the people, therefore Avraham referenced Hashem only as G-D of the Heavens. Now at the time of the oath due to Avraham's great outreach efforts amongst the people who learned to recognize Hashem, he was able to reference Him as the G-D of both Heaven and Earth.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> If despite this; the woman would not agree to go with Eliezer, he will be absolved of this oath and he may select a wife for Yitzchak from the daughters of Aner, Eshkol and Mamre.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:8">Rashi Berashis 24:8</ref> Eliezer only should do not bring Yitzchak back to Aram Naharaim, although his grandson Yackov is destined to go back.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:8"/><br />
<br />
Eliezer placed his hand under the thigh of Avraham his master and swore to him concerning this matter.<br />
<br />
===Trip to Aram Naharaim===<br />
Eliezer took ten of his master's camels and went to Aram Naharaim to the city of Nachor. Avraham's camels were distinguishable from other camels, since they were muzzled to prevent them from grazing in strangers’ fields, which is a form of stealing.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10">Rashi Berashis 24:10</ref> Eliezer took in his hand a gift contract bequeathing to Yitzchak<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> the best of Avraham's assets and everything he owned.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> This was done to expedite Besuel to send his daughter.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> Aram Naharaim was located between two rivers.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/><br />
<br />
===The Well===<br />
When Eliezer arrived, he made the camels kneel<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:11">Rashi Berashis 24:11</ref> outside the city beside the well of water towards evening. This was the time when the women of the city would come to draw water. <br />
<br />
Eliezer prayed to Hashem, calling him the G-D of his master Avraham and asking Him to perform a favor for Avraham and have his objectives transpire that day. Since he was standing by the water well and the girls of the city were coming out to draw water, he would do the following test; the girl to whom he will ask to lower her pitcher and allow him to drink water, that will not only allow him to drink but also offer water for his camels, this will clarify<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/> that she must be the one designated by Hashem to marry Yitzchak. If she will perform such acts of kindness, she is was worthy for Yitzchok and fit to enter the house of Avraham.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14">Rashi Berashis 24:14</ref><br />
<br />
Eliezer begged<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/> that through her, Hashem will let him know<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/> that He performed an act of kindness with Avraham, if she ended up being from Avraham's family and worth for Yitzchok.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/><br />
<br />
Before Eliezer finished speaking his prayer, Rivka arrived, with her pitcher on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Besuel, the son of Milka and Nachor, Avraham's brother. She had a nice appearance and never had any form<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:16">Rashi Berashis 24:16</ref> of physical relationships. Unlike the other locals, she was completely clean.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:16"/> Rivka wend down to the well, filed her pitcher and went up.<br />
<br />
After seeing the waters of the well rise towards Rivka,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:17">Rashi Berashis 24:17</ref> Eliezer the servant ran toward her, and aske to please allow him to swallow<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:17"/> a little water from her pitcher.<br />
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==References==<br />
<references/><br />
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[[Category:Parsha]]</div>Dunhttp://zissil.com/topics/Parashat-Chayei-SarahParashat-Chayei-Sarah2021-10-28T22:33:25Z<p>Dun: /* The Well */</p>
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<div>Parshas Chayei Sarah<br />
<br />
==Passing of Sarah==<br />
After hearing about the Akida, how Yitzchak was prepared for slaughter and almost slaughtered, Sarah's soul flew out of her and passed away.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> Her life spanned 127 years, all of them which were equally good.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1">Rashi Berashis 23:1</ref> Sarah was 100 years old but like 20 years old regarding sin, who is not yet liable for punishment and was like a 7 year old regarding beauty.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1"/> She died in Chevron in the Land of Canaan which was also named Kiryas Arba - Settlement of Four after the four giants living there; Achiman, Sheshai, Talmai and their father.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2">Rashi Berashis 23:2</ref> It also alluded to the future destiny of the city which would have four holy couples buried there; Adom and Chava, Avrahom and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/><br />
<br />
==The Burial==<br />
Avrahom came from Beer Sheva<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> to eulogize Sarah and to mourn her.<br />
<br />
===Purchasing the Cave===<br />
Avrahom arose from before his dead, and spoke to the men of Ches. He mentioned how he was a stranger from another land but had settled among them<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/> as an inhabitant of the land. He requested a piece of land<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4">Rashi Berashis 23:4</ref> by them to use as a burial plot, where he could bury his dead from before him. If they were willing to sell it to him, Avrahom would buy it like a stranger but if not he would take it legally as an inhabitant since Hashem had already promised<ref>Berashis 12:7</ref> to give his descendants the Land.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/><br />
<br />
The Sons of Ches answered Avraham calling him a prince of G-D who dwells in their midst and telling him that he could bury his dead in the choicest of their graves. None of them would withhold<ref>Rashi Berashis 23:6</ref> their graves from Avrahom burying his dead. Avraham arose and bowed to the Sons of Ches, the people of the land. He answered them that if it was their will<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8">Rashi Berashis 23:8</ref> to allow him to bury Sarah they should listen to him and request<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8"/> from Ephron ben Tzochar that he may give him the Machpelah double cave, that belongs to him which is found at the end of his field. He should give it to Avraham at its full priced value<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> as a burial property in their midst. It was called the Mearos Hamachpela since it was a two story cave<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9">Rashi Berashis 23:9</ref> and because it contained buried couples;<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> currently Adom and Chava and later Avraham and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah. Avraham wished to pay the full price of the land so later the sale could not be contested. Similarly King Dovid purchased the land of the Beis Hamikdash from Araunah at its full value.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/><br />
<br />
Ephron was sitting amongst the people of Ches since he had been appointed as an officer over them that very day and had been raised to greatness due to the importance of Avraham who needed him.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10">Rashi Berashis 23:10</ref> Ephron the Chiti answered Avraham announcing to all the people of Ches who had left their work<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> and came to the city gate, to pay respect to Sarah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> Avraham should listen to him and not purchase it with money,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11">Rashi Berashis 23:11</ref> rather Ephron is giving him the field and the cave that is in it for free in front of his people, and it is as if he has already given it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11"/> to bury his dead. Avraham bowed before the people of the land.<br />
<br />
Avraham replied to Ephron allowing the people of the land to hear, that he is not interested in accepting his offer of giving the field for free.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13">Rashi Berashis 23:13</ref> Rather if Ephron would only<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> listen to him and accept the money that he had prepared<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> and wished he had already given him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> for the field, then he will then bury his dead there.<br />
<br />
Ephron replied to Avraham, telling him that a piece of land that is worth only four hundred shekels of silver, what is its importance between two friends like them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15">Rashi Berashis 23:15</ref> It is not important so let him leave the sale<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15"/> and bury his dead. Avraham listened to Ephron and weighed out to him the 400 shekels of silver that were acceptable by all merchants, which Ephron had requested in front of the people of Ches. Ephron had promised a lot but did not nothing,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16">Rashi Berashis 23:16</ref> originally he declared that he wanted to give the cave as a gift but in the not only did he take the full payment, he took it in extra large Kentrin shekels, each worth 100 coins, that were acceptable everywhere, even in locations that used large shekels.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/> Due to this Ephron had the letter Vav subsequently removed from his name in the Torah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/><br />
<br />
Retrospectively the field of Ephron which was in Machpelah, facing Mamre, was established as Avraham's possession,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17">Rashi Berashis 23:17</ref> thereby rising from the the possession of a simple person to the possession of a king.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17"/> This included the field, the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, within its entire surrounding borders. It became Avraham's possession before the eyes of the Chetim. Ephron sold it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18">Rashi Berashis 23:18</ref> in the midst and presence<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18"/> of all who had come within the city gate.<br />
<br />
===Burial of Sarah===<br />
Afterwards, Avraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, facing Mamre, which is Hebron, in the land of Canaan. The field and the cave within it were established to Avraham as burial property, purchased from the Chitim.<br />
<br />
==Marriage of Yitzchak==<br />
===Aging of Avraham===<br />
Avraham was old, advanced in days, and Hashem had blessed Avraham with everything including a son,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1">Rashi Berashis 24:1</ref> which he now had to marry off.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1"/><br />
<br />
===Eliezer's Oath===<br />
Avraham asked his servant Eliezer, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that was his; to please place his hand under his thigh. One who swears must hold in his hand a religious item such as a Torah scroll or Tefillin. Since circumcision was Avraham's first mitzvah and he had fulfilled it with pain, it was dear to him; so he choose to use it.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:2">Rashi Berashis 24:2</ref> <br />
<br />
Avraham requested that Eliezer swear by Hashem the G-D of the heaven and earth, that he will not take a wife for Yitzchak from the Canaanites, in whose midst they lived. Rather he was to go to the land of Avraham's birthplace and from there find a wife for his son Yitzchak.<br />
<br />
Eliezer inquired in the case where the woman would not agree to go back with him to the Land of Cannan, would he be permitted to bring Yitchak to Aram Naharaim. Avraham responded, warning Eliezer not to bring Yitzchak there. Rather Hashem the G-D of the heavens Who took him from his father's home in Charun<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7">Rashi Berashis 24:7</ref> and Ur Kasdim<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> the land of his birth and spoke concerning<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> him and swore to him during the Bris Bein Habisarim<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> that He would give the Land of Canaan to his son, He will send His angel before Eliezer, and he should take a wife for Yitzchak from there. When Hashem first took Avraham from his father's home, he was not yet recognized amongst the people, therefore Avraham referenced Hashem only as G-D of the Heavens. Now at the time of the oath due to Avraham's great outreach efforts amongst the people who learned to recognize Hashem, he was able to reference Him as the G-D of both Heaven and Earth.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> If despite this; the woman would not agree to go with Eliezer, he will be absolved of this oath and he may select a wife for Yitzchak from the daughters of Aner, Eshkol and Mamre.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:8">Rashi Berashis 24:8</ref> Eliezer only should do not bring Yitzchak back to Aram Naharaim, although his grandson Yackov is destined to go back.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:8"/><br />
<br />
Eliezer placed his hand under the thigh of Avraham his master and swore to him concerning this matter.<br />
<br />
===Trip to Aram Naharaim===<br />
Eliezer took ten of his master's camels and went to Aram Naharaim to the city of Nachor. Avraham's camels were distinguishable from other camels, since they were muzzled to prevent them from grazing in strangers’ fields, which is a form of stealing.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10">Rashi Berashis 24:10</ref> Eliezer took in his hand a gift contract bequeathing to Yitzchak<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> the best of Avraham's assets and everything he owned.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> This was done to expedite Besuel to send his daughter.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> Aram Naharaim was located between two rivers.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/><br />
<br />
===The Well===<br />
When Eliezer arrived, he made the camels kneel<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:11">Rashi Berashis 24:11</ref> outside the city beside the well of water towards evening. This was the time when the women of the city would come to draw water. <br />
<br />
Eliezer prayed to Hashem, calling him the G-D of his master Avraham and asking Him to perform a favor for Avraham and have his objectives transpire that day. Since he was standing by the water well and the girls of the city were coming out to draw water, he would do the following test; the girl to whom he will ask to lower her pitcher and allow him to drink water, that will not only allow him to drink but also offer water for his camels, this will clarify<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/> that she must be the one designated by Hashem to marry Yitzchak. If she will perform such acts of kindness, she is was worthy for Yitzchok and fit to enter the house of Avraham.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14">Rashi Berashis 24:14</ref><br />
<br />
Eliezer begged<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/> that through her, Hashem will let him know<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/> that He performed an act of kindness with Avraham, if she ended up being from Avraham's family and worth for Yitzchok.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/><br />
<br />
Before Eliezer finished speaking his prayer, Rivka arrived, with her pitcher on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Besuel, the son of Milka and Nachor, Avraham's brother.<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
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{{Weekly Parsha}}<br />
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[[Category:Parsha]]</div>Dunhttp://zissil.com/topics/Parashat-Chayei-SarahParashat-Chayei-Sarah2021-10-28T22:29:41Z<p>Dun: /* The Well */</p>
<hr />
<div>Parshas Chayei Sarah<br />
<br />
==Passing of Sarah==<br />
After hearing about the Akida, how Yitzchak was prepared for slaughter and almost slaughtered, Sarah's soul flew out of her and passed away.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> Her life spanned 127 years, all of them which were equally good.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1">Rashi Berashis 23:1</ref> Sarah was 100 years old but like 20 years old regarding sin, who is not yet liable for punishment and was like a 7 year old regarding beauty.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1"/> She died in Chevron in the Land of Canaan which was also named Kiryas Arba - Settlement of Four after the four giants living there; Achiman, Sheshai, Talmai and their father.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2">Rashi Berashis 23:2</ref> It also alluded to the future destiny of the city which would have four holy couples buried there; Adom and Chava, Avrahom and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/><br />
<br />
==The Burial==<br />
Avrahom came from Beer Sheva<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> to eulogize Sarah and to mourn her.<br />
<br />
===Purchasing the Cave===<br />
Avrahom arose from before his dead, and spoke to the men of Ches. He mentioned how he was a stranger from another land but had settled among them<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/> as an inhabitant of the land. He requested a piece of land<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4">Rashi Berashis 23:4</ref> by them to use as a burial plot, where he could bury his dead from before him. If they were willing to sell it to him, Avrahom would buy it like a stranger but if not he would take it legally as an inhabitant since Hashem had already promised<ref>Berashis 12:7</ref> to give his descendants the Land.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/><br />
<br />
The Sons of Ches answered Avraham calling him a prince of G-D who dwells in their midst and telling him that he could bury his dead in the choicest of their graves. None of them would withhold<ref>Rashi Berashis 23:6</ref> their graves from Avrahom burying his dead. Avraham arose and bowed to the Sons of Ches, the people of the land. He answered them that if it was their will<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8">Rashi Berashis 23:8</ref> to allow him to bury Sarah they should listen to him and request<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8"/> from Ephron ben Tzochar that he may give him the Machpelah double cave, that belongs to him which is found at the end of his field. He should give it to Avraham at its full priced value<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> as a burial property in their midst. It was called the Mearos Hamachpela since it was a two story cave<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9">Rashi Berashis 23:9</ref> and because it contained buried couples;<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> currently Adom and Chava and later Avraham and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah. Avraham wished to pay the full price of the land so later the sale could not be contested. Similarly King Dovid purchased the land of the Beis Hamikdash from Araunah at its full value.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/><br />
<br />
Ephron was sitting amongst the people of Ches since he had been appointed as an officer over them that very day and had been raised to greatness due to the importance of Avraham who needed him.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10">Rashi Berashis 23:10</ref> Ephron the Chiti answered Avraham announcing to all the people of Ches who had left their work<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> and came to the city gate, to pay respect to Sarah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> Avraham should listen to him and not purchase it with money,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11">Rashi Berashis 23:11</ref> rather Ephron is giving him the field and the cave that is in it for free in front of his people, and it is as if he has already given it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11"/> to bury his dead. Avraham bowed before the people of the land.<br />
<br />
Avraham replied to Ephron allowing the people of the land to hear, that he is not interested in accepting his offer of giving the field for free.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13">Rashi Berashis 23:13</ref> Rather if Ephron would only<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> listen to him and accept the money that he had prepared<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> and wished he had already given him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> for the field, then he will then bury his dead there.<br />
<br />
Ephron replied to Avraham, telling him that a piece of land that is worth only four hundred shekels of silver, what is its importance between two friends like them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15">Rashi Berashis 23:15</ref> It is not important so let him leave the sale<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15"/> and bury his dead. Avraham listened to Ephron and weighed out to him the 400 shekels of silver that were acceptable by all merchants, which Ephron had requested in front of the people of Ches. Ephron had promised a lot but did not nothing,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16">Rashi Berashis 23:16</ref> originally he declared that he wanted to give the cave as a gift but in the not only did he take the full payment, he took it in extra large Kentrin shekels, each worth 100 coins, that were acceptable everywhere, even in locations that used large shekels.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/> Due to this Ephron had the letter Vav subsequently removed from his name in the Torah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/><br />
<br />
Retrospectively the field of Ephron which was in Machpelah, facing Mamre, was established as Avraham's possession,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17">Rashi Berashis 23:17</ref> thereby rising from the the possession of a simple person to the possession of a king.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17"/> This included the field, the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, within its entire surrounding borders. It became Avraham's possession before the eyes of the Chetim. Ephron sold it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18">Rashi Berashis 23:18</ref> in the midst and presence<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18"/> of all who had come within the city gate.<br />
<br />
===Burial of Sarah===<br />
Afterwards, Avraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, facing Mamre, which is Hebron, in the land of Canaan. The field and the cave within it were established to Avraham as burial property, purchased from the Chitim.<br />
<br />
==Marriage of Yitzchak==<br />
===Aging of Avraham===<br />
Avraham was old, advanced in days, and Hashem had blessed Avraham with everything including a son,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1">Rashi Berashis 24:1</ref> which he now had to marry off.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1"/><br />
<br />
===Eliezer's Oath===<br />
Avraham asked his servant Eliezer, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that was his; to please place his hand under his thigh. One who swears must hold in his hand a religious item such as a Torah scroll or Tefillin. Since circumcision was Avraham's first mitzvah and he had fulfilled it with pain, it was dear to him; so he choose to use it.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:2">Rashi Berashis 24:2</ref> <br />
<br />
Avraham requested that Eliezer swear by Hashem the G-D of the heaven and earth, that he will not take a wife for Yitzchak from the Canaanites, in whose midst they lived. Rather he was to go to the land of Avraham's birthplace and from there find a wife for his son Yitzchak.<br />
<br />
Eliezer inquired in the case where the woman would not agree to go back with him to the Land of Cannan, would he be permitted to bring Yitchak to Aram Naharaim. Avraham responded, warning Eliezer not to bring Yitzchak there. Rather Hashem the G-D of the heavens Who took him from his father's home in Charun<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7">Rashi Berashis 24:7</ref> and Ur Kasdim<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> the land of his birth and spoke concerning<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> him and swore to him during the Bris Bein Habisarim<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> that He would give the Land of Canaan to his son, He will send His angel before Eliezer, and he should take a wife for Yitzchak from there. When Hashem first took Avraham from his father's home, he was not yet recognized amongst the people, therefore Avraham referenced Hashem only as G-D of the Heavens. Now at the time of the oath due to Avraham's great outreach efforts amongst the people who learned to recognize Hashem, he was able to reference Him as the G-D of both Heaven and Earth.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> If despite this; the woman would not agree to go with Eliezer, he will be absolved of this oath and he may select a wife for Yitzchak from the daughters of Aner, Eshkol and Mamre.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:8">Rashi Berashis 24:8</ref> Eliezer only should do not bring Yitzchak back to Aram Naharaim, although his grandson Yackov is destined to go back.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:8"/><br />
<br />
Eliezer placed his hand under the thigh of Avraham his master and swore to him concerning this matter.<br />
<br />
===Trip to Aram Naharaim===<br />
Eliezer took ten of his master's camels and went to Aram Naharaim to the city of Nachor. Avraham's camels were distinguishable from other camels, since they were muzzled to prevent them from grazing in strangers’ fields, which is a form of stealing.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10">Rashi Berashis 24:10</ref> Eliezer took in his hand a gift contract bequeathing to Yitzchak<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> the best of Avraham's assets and everything he owned.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> This was done to expedite Besuel to send his daughter.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> Aram Naharaim was located between two rivers.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/><br />
<br />
===The Well===<br />
When Eliezer arrived, he made the camels kneel<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:11">Rashi Berashis 24:11</ref> outside the city beside the well of water towards evening. This was the time when the women of the city would come to draw water. He then prayed to Hashem, calling him the G-D of his master Avraham and asking Him to perform a favor for Avraham and have his objectives transpire that day. <br />
<br />
Since he was standing by the water well and the girls of the city were coming out to draw water, he would do the following test; the girl to whom he will ask to lower her pitcher and allow him to drink water, that will not only allow him to drink but also offer water for his camels, this will clarify<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/> that she must be the one designated by Hashem to marry Yitzchak. If she will perform such acts of kindness, she is was worthy for Yitzchok and fit to enter the house of Avraham.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14">Rashi Berashis 24:14</ref><br />
<br />
Eliezer begged<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/> that through her, Hashem will let him know<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/> that He performed an act of kindness with Avraham, if she ended up being from Avraham's family and worth for Yitzchok.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/><br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
<br />
{{Weekly Parsha}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Parsha]]</div>Dunhttp://zissil.com/topics/Parashat-Chayei-SarahParashat-Chayei-Sarah2021-10-28T22:26:00Z<p>Dun: /* The Well */</p>
<hr />
<div>Parshas Chayei Sarah<br />
<br />
==Passing of Sarah==<br />
After hearing about the Akida, how Yitzchak was prepared for slaughter and almost slaughtered, Sarah's soul flew out of her and passed away.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> Her life spanned 127 years, all of them which were equally good.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1">Rashi Berashis 23:1</ref> Sarah was 100 years old but like 20 years old regarding sin, who is not yet liable for punishment and was like a 7 year old regarding beauty.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1"/> She died in Chevron in the Land of Canaan which was also named Kiryas Arba - Settlement of Four after the four giants living there; Achiman, Sheshai, Talmai and their father.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2">Rashi Berashis 23:2</ref> It also alluded to the future destiny of the city which would have four holy couples buried there; Adom and Chava, Avrahom and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/><br />
<br />
==The Burial==<br />
Avrahom came from Beer Sheva<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> to eulogize Sarah and to mourn her.<br />
<br />
===Purchasing the Cave===<br />
Avrahom arose from before his dead, and spoke to the men of Ches. He mentioned how he was a stranger from another land but had settled among them<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/> as an inhabitant of the land. He requested a piece of land<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4">Rashi Berashis 23:4</ref> by them to use as a burial plot, where he could bury his dead from before him. If they were willing to sell it to him, Avrahom would buy it like a stranger but if not he would take it legally as an inhabitant since Hashem had already promised<ref>Berashis 12:7</ref> to give his descendants the Land.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/><br />
<br />
The Sons of Ches answered Avraham calling him a prince of G-D who dwells in their midst and telling him that he could bury his dead in the choicest of their graves. None of them would withhold<ref>Rashi Berashis 23:6</ref> their graves from Avrahom burying his dead. Avraham arose and bowed to the Sons of Ches, the people of the land. He answered them that if it was their will<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8">Rashi Berashis 23:8</ref> to allow him to bury Sarah they should listen to him and request<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8"/> from Ephron ben Tzochar that he may give him the Machpelah double cave, that belongs to him which is found at the end of his field. He should give it to Avraham at its full priced value<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> as a burial property in their midst. It was called the Mearos Hamachpela since it was a two story cave<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9">Rashi Berashis 23:9</ref> and because it contained buried couples;<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> currently Adom and Chava and later Avraham and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah. Avraham wished to pay the full price of the land so later the sale could not be contested. Similarly King Dovid purchased the land of the Beis Hamikdash from Araunah at its full value.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/><br />
<br />
Ephron was sitting amongst the people of Ches since he had been appointed as an officer over them that very day and had been raised to greatness due to the importance of Avraham who needed him.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10">Rashi Berashis 23:10</ref> Ephron the Chiti answered Avraham announcing to all the people of Ches who had left their work<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> and came to the city gate, to pay respect to Sarah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> Avraham should listen to him and not purchase it with money,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11">Rashi Berashis 23:11</ref> rather Ephron is giving him the field and the cave that is in it for free in front of his people, and it is as if he has already given it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11"/> to bury his dead. Avraham bowed before the people of the land.<br />
<br />
Avraham replied to Ephron allowing the people of the land to hear, that he is not interested in accepting his offer of giving the field for free.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13">Rashi Berashis 23:13</ref> Rather if Ephron would only<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> listen to him and accept the money that he had prepared<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> and wished he had already given him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> for the field, then he will then bury his dead there.<br />
<br />
Ephron replied to Avraham, telling him that a piece of land that is worth only four hundred shekels of silver, what is its importance between two friends like them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15">Rashi Berashis 23:15</ref> It is not important so let him leave the sale<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15"/> and bury his dead. Avraham listened to Ephron and weighed out to him the 400 shekels of silver that were acceptable by all merchants, which Ephron had requested in front of the people of Ches. Ephron had promised a lot but did not nothing,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16">Rashi Berashis 23:16</ref> originally he declared that he wanted to give the cave as a gift but in the not only did he take the full payment, he took it in extra large Kentrin shekels, each worth 100 coins, that were acceptable everywhere, even in locations that used large shekels.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/> Due to this Ephron had the letter Vav subsequently removed from his name in the Torah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/><br />
<br />
Retrospectively the field of Ephron which was in Machpelah, facing Mamre, was established as Avraham's possession,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17">Rashi Berashis 23:17</ref> thereby rising from the the possession of a simple person to the possession of a king.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17"/> This included the field, the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, within its entire surrounding borders. It became Avraham's possession before the eyes of the Chetim. Ephron sold it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18">Rashi Berashis 23:18</ref> in the midst and presence<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18"/> of all who had come within the city gate.<br />
<br />
===Burial of Sarah===<br />
Afterwards, Avraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, facing Mamre, which is Hebron, in the land of Canaan. The field and the cave within it were established to Avraham as burial property, purchased from the Chitim.<br />
<br />
==Marriage of Yitzchak==<br />
===Aging of Avraham===<br />
Avraham was old, advanced in days, and Hashem had blessed Avraham with everything including a son,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1">Rashi Berashis 24:1</ref> which he now had to marry off.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1"/><br />
<br />
===Eliezer's Oath===<br />
Avraham asked his servant Eliezer, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that was his; to please place his hand under his thigh. One who swears must hold in his hand a religious item such as a Torah scroll or Tefillin. Since circumcision was Avraham's first mitzvah and he had fulfilled it with pain, it was dear to him; so he choose to use it.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:2">Rashi Berashis 24:2</ref> <br />
<br />
Avraham requested that Eliezer swear by Hashem the G-D of the heaven and earth, that he will not take a wife for Yitzchak from the Canaanites, in whose midst they lived. Rather he was to go to the land of Avraham's birthplace and from there find a wife for his son Yitzchak.<br />
<br />
Eliezer inquired in the case where the woman would not agree to go back with him to the Land of Cannan, would he be permitted to bring Yitchak to Aram Naharaim. Avraham responded, warning Eliezer not to bring Yitzchak there. Rather Hashem the G-D of the heavens Who took him from his father's home in Charun<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7">Rashi Berashis 24:7</ref> and Ur Kasdim<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> the land of his birth and spoke concerning<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> him and swore to him during the Bris Bein Habisarim<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> that He would give the Land of Canaan to his son, He will send His angel before Eliezer, and he should take a wife for Yitzchak from there. When Hashem first took Avraham from his father's home, he was not yet recognized amongst the people, therefore Avraham referenced Hashem only as G-D of the Heavens. Now at the time of the oath due to Avraham's great outreach efforts amongst the people who learned to recognize Hashem, he was able to reference Him as the G-D of both Heaven and Earth.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> If despite this; the woman would not agree to go with Eliezer, he will be absolved of this oath and he may select a wife for Yitzchak from the daughters of Aner, Eshkol and Mamre.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:8">Rashi Berashis 24:8</ref> Eliezer only should do not bring Yitzchak back to Aram Naharaim, although his grandson Yackov is destined to go back.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:8"/><br />
<br />
Eliezer placed his hand under the thigh of Avraham his master and swore to him concerning this matter.<br />
<br />
===Trip to Aram Naharaim===<br />
Eliezer took ten of his master's camels and went to Aram Naharaim to the city of Nachor. Avraham's camels were distinguishable from other camels, since they were muzzled to prevent them from grazing in strangers’ fields, which is a form of stealing.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10">Rashi Berashis 24:10</ref> Eliezer took in his hand a gift contract bequeathing to Yitzchak<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> the best of Avraham's assets and everything he owned.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> This was done to expedite Besuel to send his daughter.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> Aram Naharaim was located between two rivers.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/><br />
<br />
===The Well===<br />
When Eliezer arrived, he made the camels kneel<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:11">Rashi Berashis 24:11</ref> outside the city beside the well of water towards evening. This was the time when the women of the city would come to draw water. He then prayed to Hashem, calling him the G-D of his master Avraham and asking Him to perform a favor for Avraham and have his objectives transpire that day. <br />
<br />
Since he was standing by the water well and the girls of the city were coming out to draw water, he would do the following test; the girl to whom he will ask to lower her pitcher and allow him to drink water, that will not only allow him to drink but also offer water for his camels, this will clarify<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14"/> that she must be the one designated by Hashem to marry Yitzchak. If she will perform such acts of kindness, she is was worthy for Yitzchok and fit to enter the house of Avraham.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:14">Rashi Berashis 24:14</ref><br />
<br />
Through her, Eliezer will know that Hashem performed an act of kindness with Avraham.<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
<br />
{{Weekly Parsha}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Parsha]]</div>Dunhttp://zissil.com/topics/Parashat-Chayei-SarahParashat-Chayei-Sarah2021-10-28T22:16:04Z<p>Dun: /* The Well */</p>
<hr />
<div>Parshas Chayei Sarah<br />
<br />
==Passing of Sarah==<br />
After hearing about the Akida, how Yitzchak was prepared for slaughter and almost slaughtered, Sarah's soul flew out of her and passed away.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> Her life spanned 127 years, all of them which were equally good.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1">Rashi Berashis 23:1</ref> Sarah was 100 years old but like 20 years old regarding sin, who is not yet liable for punishment and was like a 7 year old regarding beauty.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1"/> She died in Chevron in the Land of Canaan which was also named Kiryas Arba - Settlement of Four after the four giants living there; Achiman, Sheshai, Talmai and their father.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2">Rashi Berashis 23:2</ref> It also alluded to the future destiny of the city which would have four holy couples buried there; Adom and Chava, Avrahom and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/><br />
<br />
==The Burial==<br />
Avrahom came from Beer Sheva<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> to eulogize Sarah and to mourn her.<br />
<br />
===Purchasing the Cave===<br />
Avrahom arose from before his dead, and spoke to the men of Ches. He mentioned how he was a stranger from another land but had settled among them<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/> as an inhabitant of the land. He requested a piece of land<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4">Rashi Berashis 23:4</ref> by them to use as a burial plot, where he could bury his dead from before him. If they were willing to sell it to him, Avrahom would buy it like a stranger but if not he would take it legally as an inhabitant since Hashem had already promised<ref>Berashis 12:7</ref> to give his descendants the Land.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/><br />
<br />
The Sons of Ches answered Avraham calling him a prince of G-D who dwells in their midst and telling him that he could bury his dead in the choicest of their graves. None of them would withhold<ref>Rashi Berashis 23:6</ref> their graves from Avrahom burying his dead. Avraham arose and bowed to the Sons of Ches, the people of the land. He answered them that if it was their will<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8">Rashi Berashis 23:8</ref> to allow him to bury Sarah they should listen to him and request<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8"/> from Ephron ben Tzochar that he may give him the Machpelah double cave, that belongs to him which is found at the end of his field. He should give it to Avraham at its full priced value<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> as a burial property in their midst. It was called the Mearos Hamachpela since it was a two story cave<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9">Rashi Berashis 23:9</ref> and because it contained buried couples;<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> currently Adom and Chava and later Avraham and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah. Avraham wished to pay the full price of the land so later the sale could not be contested. Similarly King Dovid purchased the land of the Beis Hamikdash from Araunah at its full value.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/><br />
<br />
Ephron was sitting amongst the people of Ches since he had been appointed as an officer over them that very day and had been raised to greatness due to the importance of Avraham who needed him.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10">Rashi Berashis 23:10</ref> Ephron the Chiti answered Avraham announcing to all the people of Ches who had left their work<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> and came to the city gate, to pay respect to Sarah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> Avraham should listen to him and not purchase it with money,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11">Rashi Berashis 23:11</ref> rather Ephron is giving him the field and the cave that is in it for free in front of his people, and it is as if he has already given it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11"/> to bury his dead. Avraham bowed before the people of the land.<br />
<br />
Avraham replied to Ephron allowing the people of the land to hear, that he is not interested in accepting his offer of giving the field for free.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13">Rashi Berashis 23:13</ref> Rather if Ephron would only<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> listen to him and accept the money that he had prepared<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> and wished he had already given him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> for the field, then he will then bury his dead there.<br />
<br />
Ephron replied to Avraham, telling him that a piece of land that is worth only four hundred shekels of silver, what is its importance between two friends like them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15">Rashi Berashis 23:15</ref> It is not important so let him leave the sale<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15"/> and bury his dead. Avraham listened to Ephron and weighed out to him the 400 shekels of silver that were acceptable by all merchants, which Ephron had requested in front of the people of Ches. Ephron had promised a lot but did not nothing,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16">Rashi Berashis 23:16</ref> originally he declared that he wanted to give the cave as a gift but in the not only did he take the full payment, he took it in extra large Kentrin shekels, each worth 100 coins, that were acceptable everywhere, even in locations that used large shekels.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/> Due to this Ephron had the letter Vav subsequently removed from his name in the Torah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/><br />
<br />
Retrospectively the field of Ephron which was in Machpelah, facing Mamre, was established as Avraham's possession,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17">Rashi Berashis 23:17</ref> thereby rising from the the possession of a simple person to the possession of a king.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17"/> This included the field, the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, within its entire surrounding borders. It became Avraham's possession before the eyes of the Chetim. Ephron sold it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18">Rashi Berashis 23:18</ref> in the midst and presence<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18"/> of all who had come within the city gate.<br />
<br />
===Burial of Sarah===<br />
Afterwards, Avraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, facing Mamre, which is Hebron, in the land of Canaan. The field and the cave within it were established to Avraham as burial property, purchased from the Chitim.<br />
<br />
==Marriage of Yitzchak==<br />
===Aging of Avraham===<br />
Avraham was old, advanced in days, and Hashem had blessed Avraham with everything including a son,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1">Rashi Berashis 24:1</ref> which he now had to marry off.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1"/><br />
<br />
===Eliezer's Oath===<br />
Avraham asked his servant Eliezer, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that was his; to please place his hand under his thigh. One who swears must hold in his hand a religious item such as a Torah scroll or Tefillin. Since circumcision was Avraham's first mitzvah and he had fulfilled it with pain, it was dear to him; so he choose to use it.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:2">Rashi Berashis 24:2</ref> <br />
<br />
Avraham requested that Eliezer swear by Hashem the G-D of the heaven and earth, that he will not take a wife for Yitzchak from the Canaanites, in whose midst they lived. Rather he was to go to the land of Avraham's birthplace and from there find a wife for his son Yitzchak.<br />
<br />
Eliezer inquired in the case where the woman would not agree to go back with him to the Land of Cannan, would he be permitted to bring Yitchak to Aram Naharaim. Avraham responded, warning Eliezer not to bring Yitzchak there. Rather Hashem the G-D of the heavens Who took him from his father's home in Charun<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7">Rashi Berashis 24:7</ref> and Ur Kasdim<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> the land of his birth and spoke concerning<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> him and swore to him during the Bris Bein Habisarim<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> that He would give the Land of Canaan to his son, He will send His angel before Eliezer, and he should take a wife for Yitzchak from there. When Hashem first took Avraham from his father's home, he was not yet recognized amongst the people, therefore Avraham referenced Hashem only as G-D of the Heavens. Now at the time of the oath due to Avraham's great outreach efforts amongst the people who learned to recognize Hashem, he was able to reference Him as the G-D of both Heaven and Earth.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> If despite this; the woman would not agree to go with Eliezer, he will be absolved of this oath and he may select a wife for Yitzchak from the daughters of Aner, Eshkol and Mamre.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:8">Rashi Berashis 24:8</ref> Eliezer only should do not bring Yitzchak back to Aram Naharaim, although his grandson Yackov is destined to go back.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:8"/><br />
<br />
Eliezer placed his hand under the thigh of Avraham his master and swore to him concerning this matter.<br />
<br />
===Trip to Aram Naharaim===<br />
Eliezer took ten of his master's camels and went to Aram Naharaim to the city of Nachor. Avraham's camels were distinguishable from other camels, since they were muzzled to prevent them from grazing in strangers’ fields, which is a form of stealing.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10">Rashi Berashis 24:10</ref> Eliezer took in his hand a gift contract bequeathing to Yitzchak<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> the best of Avraham's assets and everything he owned.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> This was done to expedite Besuel to send his daughter.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> Aram Naharaim was located between two rivers.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/><br />
<br />
===The Well===<br />
When Eliezer arrived, he made the camels kneel<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:11">Rashi Berashis 24:11</ref> outside the city beside the well of water towards evening. This was the time when the women of the city would come to draw water. He then prayed to Hashem, calling him the G-D of his master Avraham and asking Him to perform a favor for Avraham and have his objectives transpire that day. Since he was standing by the water well and the girls of the city were coming out to draw water, the girl to whom he will ask to lower her pitcher and all him to drink water, that will not only allow him to drink but also offer water for his camels, this must be the one designated by Hashem to marry Yitzchak and through her he will know that Hashem performed an act of kindness with Avraham.<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
<br />
{{Weekly Parsha}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Parsha]]</div>Dunhttp://zissil.com/topics/Parashat-Chayei-SarahParashat-Chayei-Sarah2021-10-25T21:36:51Z<p>Dun: /* The Well */</p>
<hr />
<div>Parshas Chayei Sarah<br />
<br />
==Passing of Sarah==<br />
After hearing about the Akida, how Yitzchak was prepared for slaughter and almost slaughtered, Sarah's soul flew out of her and passed away.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> Her life spanned 127 years, all of them which were equally good.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1">Rashi Berashis 23:1</ref> Sarah was 100 years old but like 20 years old regarding sin, who is not yet liable for punishment and was like a 7 year old regarding beauty.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1"/> She died in Chevron in the Land of Canaan which was also named Kiryas Arba - Settlement of Four after the four giants living there; Achiman, Sheshai, Talmai and their father.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2">Rashi Berashis 23:2</ref> It also alluded to the future destiny of the city which would have four holy couples buried there; Adom and Chava, Avrahom and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/><br />
<br />
==The Burial==<br />
Avrahom came from Beer Sheva<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> to eulogize Sarah and to mourn her.<br />
<br />
===Purchasing the Cave===<br />
Avrahom arose from before his dead, and spoke to the men of Ches. He mentioned how he was a stranger from another land but had settled among them<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/> as an inhabitant of the land. He requested a piece of land<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4">Rashi Berashis 23:4</ref> by them to use as a burial plot, where he could bury his dead from before him. If they were willing to sell it to him, Avrahom would buy it like a stranger but if not he would take it legally as an inhabitant since Hashem had already promised<ref>Berashis 12:7</ref> to give his descendants the Land.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/><br />
<br />
The Sons of Ches answered Avraham calling him a prince of G-D who dwells in their midst and telling him that he could bury his dead in the choicest of their graves. None of them would withhold<ref>Rashi Berashis 23:6</ref> their graves from Avrahom burying his dead. Avraham arose and bowed to the Sons of Ches, the people of the land. He answered them that if it was their will<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8">Rashi Berashis 23:8</ref> to allow him to bury Sarah they should listen to him and request<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8"/> from Ephron ben Tzochar that he may give him the Machpelah double cave, that belongs to him which is found at the end of his field. He should give it to Avraham at its full priced value<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> as a burial property in their midst. It was called the Mearos Hamachpela since it was a two story cave<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9">Rashi Berashis 23:9</ref> and because it contained buried couples;<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> currently Adom and Chava and later Avraham and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah. Avraham wished to pay the full price of the land so later the sale could not be contested. Similarly King Dovid purchased the land of the Beis Hamikdash from Araunah at its full value.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/><br />
<br />
Ephron was sitting amongst the people of Ches since he had been appointed as an officer over them that very day and had been raised to greatness due to the importance of Avraham who needed him.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10">Rashi Berashis 23:10</ref> Ephron the Chiti answered Avraham announcing to all the people of Ches who had left their work<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> and came to the city gate, to pay respect to Sarah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> Avraham should listen to him and not purchase it with money,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11">Rashi Berashis 23:11</ref> rather Ephron is giving him the field and the cave that is in it for free in front of his people, and it is as if he has already given it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11"/> to bury his dead. Avraham bowed before the people of the land.<br />
<br />
Avraham replied to Ephron allowing the people of the land to hear, that he is not interested in accepting his offer of giving the field for free.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13">Rashi Berashis 23:13</ref> Rather if Ephron would only<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> listen to him and accept the money that he had prepared<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> and wished he had already given him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> for the field, then he will then bury his dead there.<br />
<br />
Ephron replied to Avraham, telling him that a piece of land that is worth only four hundred shekels of silver, what is its importance between two friends like them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15">Rashi Berashis 23:15</ref> It is not important so let him leave the sale<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15"/> and bury his dead. Avraham listened to Ephron and weighed out to him the 400 shekels of silver that were acceptable by all merchants, which Ephron had requested in front of the people of Ches. Ephron had promised a lot but did not nothing,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16">Rashi Berashis 23:16</ref> originally he declared that he wanted to give the cave as a gift but in the not only did he take the full payment, he took it in extra large Kentrin shekels, each worth 100 coins, that were acceptable everywhere, even in locations that used large shekels.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/> Due to this Ephron had the letter Vav subsequently removed from his name in the Torah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/><br />
<br />
Retrospectively the field of Ephron which was in Machpelah, facing Mamre, was established as Avraham's possession,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17">Rashi Berashis 23:17</ref> thereby rising from the the possession of a simple person to the possession of a king.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17"/> This included the field, the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, within its entire surrounding borders. It became Avraham's possession before the eyes of the Chetim. Ephron sold it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18">Rashi Berashis 23:18</ref> in the midst and presence<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18"/> of all who had come within the city gate.<br />
<br />
===Burial of Sarah===<br />
Afterwards, Avraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, facing Mamre, which is Hebron, in the land of Canaan. The field and the cave within it were established to Avraham as burial property, purchased from the Chitim.<br />
<br />
==Marriage of Yitzchak==<br />
===Aging of Avraham===<br />
Avraham was old, advanced in days, and Hashem had blessed Avraham with everything including a son,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1">Rashi Berashis 24:1</ref> which he now had to marry off.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1"/><br />
<br />
===Eliezer's Oath===<br />
Avraham asked his servant Eliezer, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that was his; to please place his hand under his thigh. One who swears must hold in his hand a religious item such as a Torah scroll or Tefillin. Since circumcision was Avraham's first mitzvah and he had fulfilled it with pain, it was dear to him; so he choose to use it.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:2">Rashi Berashis 24:2</ref> <br />
<br />
Avraham requested that Eliezer swear by Hashem the G-D of the heaven and earth, that he will not take a wife for Yitzchak from the Canaanites, in whose midst they lived. Rather he was to go to the land of Avraham's birthplace and from there find a wife for his son Yitzchak.<br />
<br />
Eliezer inquired in the case where the woman would not agree to go back with him to the Land of Cannan, would he be permitted to bring Yitchak to Aram Naharaim. Avraham responded, warning Eliezer not to bring Yitzchak there. Rather Hashem the G-D of the heavens Who took him from his father's home in Charun<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7">Rashi Berashis 24:7</ref> and Ur Kasdim<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> the land of his birth and spoke concerning<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> him and swore to him during the Bris Bein Habisarim<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> that He would give the Land of Canaan to his son, He will send His angel before Eliezer, and he should take a wife for Yitzchak from there. When Hashem first took Avraham from his father's home, he was not yet recognized amongst the people, therefore Avraham referenced Hashem only as G-D of the Heavens. Now at the time of the oath due to Avraham's great outreach efforts amongst the people who learned to recognize Hashem, he was able to reference Him as the G-D of both Heaven and Earth.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> If despite this; the woman would not agree to go with Eliezer, he will be absolved of this oath and he may select a wife for Yitzchak from the daughters of Aner, Eshkol and Mamre.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:8">Rashi Berashis 24:8</ref> Eliezer only should do not bring Yitzchak back to Aram Naharaim, although his grandson Yackov is destined to go back.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:8"/><br />
<br />
Eliezer placed his hand under the thigh of Avraham his master and swore to him concerning this matter.<br />
<br />
===Trip to Aram Naharaim===<br />
Eliezer took ten of his master's camels and went to Aram Naharaim to the city of Nachor. Avraham's camels were distinguishable from other camels, since they were muzzled to prevent them from grazing in strangers’ fields, which is a form of stealing.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10">Rashi Berashis 24:10</ref> Eliezer took in his hand a gift contract bequeathing to Yitzchak<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> the best of Avraham's assets and everything he owned.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> This was done to expedite Besuel to send his daughter.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> Aram Naharaim was located between two rivers.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/><br />
<br />
===The Well===<br />
When Eliezer arrived, he made the camels kneel<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:11">Rashi Berashis 24:11</ref> outside the city beside the well of water towards evening. This was the time when the women of the city would come to draw water. He then prayed to Hashem, calling him the G-D of his master Avraham and asking Him to perform a favor for Avraham and have his objectives transpire that day.<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
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<br />
{{Weekly Parsha}}<br />
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[[Category:Parsha]]</div>Dunhttp://zissil.com/topics/Parashat-Chayei-SarahParashat-Chayei-Sarah2021-10-25T21:33:09Z<p>Dun: /* Trip to Aram Naharaim */</p>
<hr />
<div>Parshas Chayei Sarah<br />
<br />
==Passing of Sarah==<br />
After hearing about the Akida, how Yitzchak was prepared for slaughter and almost slaughtered, Sarah's soul flew out of her and passed away.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> Her life spanned 127 years, all of them which were equally good.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1">Rashi Berashis 23:1</ref> Sarah was 100 years old but like 20 years old regarding sin, who is not yet liable for punishment and was like a 7 year old regarding beauty.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1"/> She died in Chevron in the Land of Canaan which was also named Kiryas Arba - Settlement of Four after the four giants living there; Achiman, Sheshai, Talmai and their father.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2">Rashi Berashis 23:2</ref> It also alluded to the future destiny of the city which would have four holy couples buried there; Adom and Chava, Avrahom and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/><br />
<br />
==The Burial==<br />
Avrahom came from Beer Sheva<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> to eulogize Sarah and to mourn her.<br />
<br />
===Purchasing the Cave===<br />
Avrahom arose from before his dead, and spoke to the men of Ches. He mentioned how he was a stranger from another land but had settled among them<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/> as an inhabitant of the land. He requested a piece of land<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4">Rashi Berashis 23:4</ref> by them to use as a burial plot, where he could bury his dead from before him. If they were willing to sell it to him, Avrahom would buy it like a stranger but if not he would take it legally as an inhabitant since Hashem had already promised<ref>Berashis 12:7</ref> to give his descendants the Land.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/><br />
<br />
The Sons of Ches answered Avraham calling him a prince of G-D who dwells in their midst and telling him that he could bury his dead in the choicest of their graves. None of them would withhold<ref>Rashi Berashis 23:6</ref> their graves from Avrahom burying his dead. Avraham arose and bowed to the Sons of Ches, the people of the land. He answered them that if it was their will<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8">Rashi Berashis 23:8</ref> to allow him to bury Sarah they should listen to him and request<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8"/> from Ephron ben Tzochar that he may give him the Machpelah double cave, that belongs to him which is found at the end of his field. He should give it to Avraham at its full priced value<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> as a burial property in their midst. It was called the Mearos Hamachpela since it was a two story cave<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9">Rashi Berashis 23:9</ref> and because it contained buried couples;<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> currently Adom and Chava and later Avraham and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah. Avraham wished to pay the full price of the land so later the sale could not be contested. Similarly King Dovid purchased the land of the Beis Hamikdash from Araunah at its full value.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/><br />
<br />
Ephron was sitting amongst the people of Ches since he had been appointed as an officer over them that very day and had been raised to greatness due to the importance of Avraham who needed him.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10">Rashi Berashis 23:10</ref> Ephron the Chiti answered Avraham announcing to all the people of Ches who had left their work<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> and came to the city gate, to pay respect to Sarah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> Avraham should listen to him and not purchase it with money,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11">Rashi Berashis 23:11</ref> rather Ephron is giving him the field and the cave that is in it for free in front of his people, and it is as if he has already given it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11"/> to bury his dead. Avraham bowed before the people of the land.<br />
<br />
Avraham replied to Ephron allowing the people of the land to hear, that he is not interested in accepting his offer of giving the field for free.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13">Rashi Berashis 23:13</ref> Rather if Ephron would only<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> listen to him and accept the money that he had prepared<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> and wished he had already given him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> for the field, then he will then bury his dead there.<br />
<br />
Ephron replied to Avraham, telling him that a piece of land that is worth only four hundred shekels of silver, what is its importance between two friends like them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15">Rashi Berashis 23:15</ref> It is not important so let him leave the sale<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15"/> and bury his dead. Avraham listened to Ephron and weighed out to him the 400 shekels of silver that were acceptable by all merchants, which Ephron had requested in front of the people of Ches. Ephron had promised a lot but did not nothing,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16">Rashi Berashis 23:16</ref> originally he declared that he wanted to give the cave as a gift but in the not only did he take the full payment, he took it in extra large Kentrin shekels, each worth 100 coins, that were acceptable everywhere, even in locations that used large shekels.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/> Due to this Ephron had the letter Vav subsequently removed from his name in the Torah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/><br />
<br />
Retrospectively the field of Ephron which was in Machpelah, facing Mamre, was established as Avraham's possession,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17">Rashi Berashis 23:17</ref> thereby rising from the the possession of a simple person to the possession of a king.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17"/> This included the field, the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, within its entire surrounding borders. It became Avraham's possession before the eyes of the Chetim. Ephron sold it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18">Rashi Berashis 23:18</ref> in the midst and presence<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18"/> of all who had come within the city gate.<br />
<br />
===Burial of Sarah===<br />
Afterwards, Avraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, facing Mamre, which is Hebron, in the land of Canaan. The field and the cave within it were established to Avraham as burial property, purchased from the Chitim.<br />
<br />
==Marriage of Yitzchak==<br />
===Aging of Avraham===<br />
Avraham was old, advanced in days, and Hashem had blessed Avraham with everything including a son,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1">Rashi Berashis 24:1</ref> which he now had to marry off.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1"/><br />
<br />
===Eliezer's Oath===<br />
Avraham asked his servant Eliezer, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that was his; to please place his hand under his thigh. One who swears must hold in his hand a religious item such as a Torah scroll or Tefillin. Since circumcision was Avraham's first mitzvah and he had fulfilled it with pain, it was dear to him; so he choose to use it.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:2">Rashi Berashis 24:2</ref> <br />
<br />
Avraham requested that Eliezer swear by Hashem the G-D of the heaven and earth, that he will not take a wife for Yitzchak from the Canaanites, in whose midst they lived. Rather he was to go to the land of Avraham's birthplace and from there find a wife for his son Yitzchak.<br />
<br />
Eliezer inquired in the case where the woman would not agree to go back with him to the Land of Cannan, would he be permitted to bring Yitchak to Aram Naharaim. Avraham responded, warning Eliezer not to bring Yitzchak there. Rather Hashem the G-D of the heavens Who took him from his father's home in Charun<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7">Rashi Berashis 24:7</ref> and Ur Kasdim<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> the land of his birth and spoke concerning<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> him and swore to him during the Bris Bein Habisarim<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> that He would give the Land of Canaan to his son, He will send His angel before Eliezer, and he should take a wife for Yitzchak from there. When Hashem first took Avraham from his father's home, he was not yet recognized amongst the people, therefore Avraham referenced Hashem only as G-D of the Heavens. Now at the time of the oath due to Avraham's great outreach efforts amongst the people who learned to recognize Hashem, he was able to reference Him as the G-D of both Heaven and Earth.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> If despite this; the woman would not agree to go with Eliezer, he will be absolved of this oath and he may select a wife for Yitzchak from the daughters of Aner, Eshkol and Mamre.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:8">Rashi Berashis 24:8</ref> Eliezer only should do not bring Yitzchak back to Aram Naharaim, although his grandson Yackov is destined to go back.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:8"/><br />
<br />
Eliezer placed his hand under the thigh of Avraham his master and swore to him concerning this matter.<br />
<br />
===Trip to Aram Naharaim===<br />
Eliezer took ten of his master's camels and went to Aram Naharaim to the city of Nachor. Avraham's camels were distinguishable from other camels, since they were muzzled to prevent them from grazing in strangers’ fields, which is a form of stealing.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10">Rashi Berashis 24:10</ref> Eliezer took in his hand a gift contract bequeathing to Yitzchak<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> the best of Avraham's assets and everything he owned.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> This was done to expedite Besuel to send his daughter.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> Aram Naharaim was located between two rivers.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/><br />
<br />
===The Well===<br />
When Eliezer arrived, he made the camels kneel<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:11">Rashi Berashis 24:11</ref> outside the city beside the well of water towards evening. This was the time when the women of the city would come to draw water.<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
<br />
{{Weekly Parsha}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Parsha]]</div>Dunhttp://zissil.com/topics/Parashat-Chayei-SarahParashat-Chayei-Sarah2021-10-25T21:24:50Z<p>Dun: /* Trip to Aram Naharaim */</p>
<hr />
<div>Parshas Chayei Sarah<br />
<br />
==Passing of Sarah==<br />
After hearing about the Akida, how Yitzchak was prepared for slaughter and almost slaughtered, Sarah's soul flew out of her and passed away.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> Her life spanned 127 years, all of them which were equally good.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1">Rashi Berashis 23:1</ref> Sarah was 100 years old but like 20 years old regarding sin, who is not yet liable for punishment and was like a 7 year old regarding beauty.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1"/> She died in Chevron in the Land of Canaan which was also named Kiryas Arba - Settlement of Four after the four giants living there; Achiman, Sheshai, Talmai and their father.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2">Rashi Berashis 23:2</ref> It also alluded to the future destiny of the city which would have four holy couples buried there; Adom and Chava, Avrahom and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/><br />
<br />
==The Burial==<br />
Avrahom came from Beer Sheva<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> to eulogize Sarah and to mourn her.<br />
<br />
===Purchasing the Cave===<br />
Avrahom arose from before his dead, and spoke to the men of Ches. He mentioned how he was a stranger from another land but had settled among them<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/> as an inhabitant of the land. He requested a piece of land<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4">Rashi Berashis 23:4</ref> by them to use as a burial plot, where he could bury his dead from before him. If they were willing to sell it to him, Avrahom would buy it like a stranger but if not he would take it legally as an inhabitant since Hashem had already promised<ref>Berashis 12:7</ref> to give his descendants the Land.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/><br />
<br />
The Sons of Ches answered Avraham calling him a prince of G-D who dwells in their midst and telling him that he could bury his dead in the choicest of their graves. None of them would withhold<ref>Rashi Berashis 23:6</ref> their graves from Avrahom burying his dead. Avraham arose and bowed to the Sons of Ches, the people of the land. He answered them that if it was their will<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8">Rashi Berashis 23:8</ref> to allow him to bury Sarah they should listen to him and request<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8"/> from Ephron ben Tzochar that he may give him the Machpelah double cave, that belongs to him which is found at the end of his field. He should give it to Avraham at its full priced value<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> as a burial property in their midst. It was called the Mearos Hamachpela since it was a two story cave<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9">Rashi Berashis 23:9</ref> and because it contained buried couples;<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> currently Adom and Chava and later Avraham and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah. Avraham wished to pay the full price of the land so later the sale could not be contested. Similarly King Dovid purchased the land of the Beis Hamikdash from Araunah at its full value.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/><br />
<br />
Ephron was sitting amongst the people of Ches since he had been appointed as an officer over them that very day and had been raised to greatness due to the importance of Avraham who needed him.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10">Rashi Berashis 23:10</ref> Ephron the Chiti answered Avraham announcing to all the people of Ches who had left their work<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> and came to the city gate, to pay respect to Sarah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> Avraham should listen to him and not purchase it with money,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11">Rashi Berashis 23:11</ref> rather Ephron is giving him the field and the cave that is in it for free in front of his people, and it is as if he has already given it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11"/> to bury his dead. Avraham bowed before the people of the land.<br />
<br />
Avraham replied to Ephron allowing the people of the land to hear, that he is not interested in accepting his offer of giving the field for free.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13">Rashi Berashis 23:13</ref> Rather if Ephron would only<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> listen to him and accept the money that he had prepared<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> and wished he had already given him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> for the field, then he will then bury his dead there.<br />
<br />
Ephron replied to Avraham, telling him that a piece of land that is worth only four hundred shekels of silver, what is its importance between two friends like them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15">Rashi Berashis 23:15</ref> It is not important so let him leave the sale<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15"/> and bury his dead. Avraham listened to Ephron and weighed out to him the 400 shekels of silver that were acceptable by all merchants, which Ephron had requested in front of the people of Ches. Ephron had promised a lot but did not nothing,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16">Rashi Berashis 23:16</ref> originally he declared that he wanted to give the cave as a gift but in the not only did he take the full payment, he took it in extra large Kentrin shekels, each worth 100 coins, that were acceptable everywhere, even in locations that used large shekels.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/> Due to this Ephron had the letter Vav subsequently removed from his name in the Torah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/><br />
<br />
Retrospectively the field of Ephron which was in Machpelah, facing Mamre, was established as Avraham's possession,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17">Rashi Berashis 23:17</ref> thereby rising from the the possession of a simple person to the possession of a king.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17"/> This included the field, the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, within its entire surrounding borders. It became Avraham's possession before the eyes of the Chetim. Ephron sold it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18">Rashi Berashis 23:18</ref> in the midst and presence<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18"/> of all who had come within the city gate.<br />
<br />
===Burial of Sarah===<br />
Afterwards, Avraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, facing Mamre, which is Hebron, in the land of Canaan. The field and the cave within it were established to Avraham as burial property, purchased from the Chitim.<br />
<br />
==Marriage of Yitzchak==<br />
===Aging of Avraham===<br />
Avraham was old, advanced in days, and Hashem had blessed Avraham with everything including a son,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1">Rashi Berashis 24:1</ref> which he now had to marry off.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1"/><br />
<br />
===Eliezer's Oath===<br />
Avraham asked his servant Eliezer, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that was his; to please place his hand under his thigh. One who swears must hold in his hand a religious item such as a Torah scroll or Tefillin. Since circumcision was Avraham's first mitzvah and he had fulfilled it with pain, it was dear to him; so he choose to use it.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:2">Rashi Berashis 24:2</ref> <br />
<br />
Avraham requested that Eliezer swear by Hashem the G-D of the heaven and earth, that he will not take a wife for Yitzchak from the Canaanites, in whose midst they lived. Rather he was to go to the land of Avraham's birthplace and from there find a wife for his son Yitzchak.<br />
<br />
Eliezer inquired in the case where the woman would not agree to go back with him to the Land of Cannan, would he be permitted to bring Yitchak to Aram Naharaim. Avraham responded, warning Eliezer not to bring Yitzchak there. Rather Hashem the G-D of the heavens Who took him from his father's home in Charun<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7">Rashi Berashis 24:7</ref> and Ur Kasdim<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> the land of his birth and spoke concerning<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> him and swore to him during the Bris Bein Habisarim<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> that He would give the Land of Canaan to his son, He will send His angel before Eliezer, and he should take a wife for Yitzchak from there. When Hashem first took Avraham from his father's home, he was not yet recognized amongst the people, therefore Avraham referenced Hashem only as G-D of the Heavens. Now at the time of the oath due to Avraham's great outreach efforts amongst the people who learned to recognize Hashem, he was able to reference Him as the G-D of both Heaven and Earth.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> If despite this; the woman would not agree to go with Eliezer, he will be absolved of this oath and he may select a wife for Yitzchak from the daughters of Aner, Eshkol and Mamre.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:8">Rashi Berashis 24:8</ref> Eliezer only should do not bring Yitzchak back to Aram Naharaim, although his grandson Yackov is destined to go back.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:8"/><br />
<br />
Eliezer placed his hand under the thigh of Avraham his master and swore to him concerning this matter.<br />
<br />
===Trip to Aram Naharaim===<br />
Eliezer took ten of his master's camels and went to Aram Naharaim to the city of Nachor. Avraham's camels were distinguishable from other camels, since they were muzzled to prevent them from grazing in strangers’ fields, which is a form of stealing.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10">Rashi Berashis 24:10</ref> Eliezer took in his hand a gift contract bequeathing to Yitzchak<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> the best of Avraham's assets and everything he owned.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> This was done to expedite Besuel to send his daughter.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> Aram Naharaim was located between two rivers.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/><br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
<br />
{{Weekly Parsha}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Parsha]]</div>Dunhttp://zissil.com/topics/Parashat-Chayei-SarahParashat-Chayei-Sarah2021-10-25T21:20:48Z<p>Dun: /* Marriage of Yitzchak */</p>
<hr />
<div>Parshas Chayei Sarah<br />
<br />
==Passing of Sarah==<br />
After hearing about the Akida, how Yitzchak was prepared for slaughter and almost slaughtered, Sarah's soul flew out of her and passed away.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> Her life spanned 127 years, all of them which were equally good.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1">Rashi Berashis 23:1</ref> Sarah was 100 years old but like 20 years old regarding sin, who is not yet liable for punishment and was like a 7 year old regarding beauty.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1"/> She died in Chevron in the Land of Canaan which was also named Kiryas Arba - Settlement of Four after the four giants living there; Achiman, Sheshai, Talmai and their father.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2">Rashi Berashis 23:2</ref> It also alluded to the future destiny of the city which would have four holy couples buried there; Adom and Chava, Avrahom and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/><br />
<br />
==The Burial==<br />
Avrahom came from Beer Sheva<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> to eulogize Sarah and to mourn her.<br />
<br />
===Purchasing the Cave===<br />
Avrahom arose from before his dead, and spoke to the men of Ches. He mentioned how he was a stranger from another land but had settled among them<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/> as an inhabitant of the land. He requested a piece of land<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4">Rashi Berashis 23:4</ref> by them to use as a burial plot, where he could bury his dead from before him. If they were willing to sell it to him, Avrahom would buy it like a stranger but if not he would take it legally as an inhabitant since Hashem had already promised<ref>Berashis 12:7</ref> to give his descendants the Land.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/><br />
<br />
The Sons of Ches answered Avraham calling him a prince of G-D who dwells in their midst and telling him that he could bury his dead in the choicest of their graves. None of them would withhold<ref>Rashi Berashis 23:6</ref> their graves from Avrahom burying his dead. Avraham arose and bowed to the Sons of Ches, the people of the land. He answered them that if it was their will<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8">Rashi Berashis 23:8</ref> to allow him to bury Sarah they should listen to him and request<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8"/> from Ephron ben Tzochar that he may give him the Machpelah double cave, that belongs to him which is found at the end of his field. He should give it to Avraham at its full priced value<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> as a burial property in their midst. It was called the Mearos Hamachpela since it was a two story cave<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9">Rashi Berashis 23:9</ref> and because it contained buried couples;<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> currently Adom and Chava and later Avraham and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah. Avraham wished to pay the full price of the land so later the sale could not be contested. Similarly King Dovid purchased the land of the Beis Hamikdash from Araunah at its full value.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/><br />
<br />
Ephron was sitting amongst the people of Ches since he had been appointed as an officer over them that very day and had been raised to greatness due to the importance of Avraham who needed him.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10">Rashi Berashis 23:10</ref> Ephron the Chiti answered Avraham announcing to all the people of Ches who had left their work<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> and came to the city gate, to pay respect to Sarah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> Avraham should listen to him and not purchase it with money,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11">Rashi Berashis 23:11</ref> rather Ephron is giving him the field and the cave that is in it for free in front of his people, and it is as if he has already given it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11"/> to bury his dead. Avraham bowed before the people of the land.<br />
<br />
Avraham replied to Ephron allowing the people of the land to hear, that he is not interested in accepting his offer of giving the field for free.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13">Rashi Berashis 23:13</ref> Rather if Ephron would only<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> listen to him and accept the money that he had prepared<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> and wished he had already given him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> for the field, then he will then bury his dead there.<br />
<br />
Ephron replied to Avraham, telling him that a piece of land that is worth only four hundred shekels of silver, what is its importance between two friends like them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15">Rashi Berashis 23:15</ref> It is not important so let him leave the sale<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15"/> and bury his dead. Avraham listened to Ephron and weighed out to him the 400 shekels of silver that were acceptable by all merchants, which Ephron had requested in front of the people of Ches. Ephron had promised a lot but did not nothing,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16">Rashi Berashis 23:16</ref> originally he declared that he wanted to give the cave as a gift but in the not only did he take the full payment, he took it in extra large Kentrin shekels, each worth 100 coins, that were acceptable everywhere, even in locations that used large shekels.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/> Due to this Ephron had the letter Vav subsequently removed from his name in the Torah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/><br />
<br />
Retrospectively the field of Ephron which was in Machpelah, facing Mamre, was established as Avraham's possession,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17">Rashi Berashis 23:17</ref> thereby rising from the the possession of a simple person to the possession of a king.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17"/> This included the field, the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, within its entire surrounding borders. It became Avraham's possession before the eyes of the Chetim. Ephron sold it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18">Rashi Berashis 23:18</ref> in the midst and presence<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18"/> of all who had come within the city gate.<br />
<br />
===Burial of Sarah===<br />
Afterwards, Avraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, facing Mamre, which is Hebron, in the land of Canaan. The field and the cave within it were established to Avraham as burial property, purchased from the Chitim.<br />
<br />
==Marriage of Yitzchak==<br />
===Aging of Avraham===<br />
Avraham was old, advanced in days, and Hashem had blessed Avraham with everything including a son,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1">Rashi Berashis 24:1</ref> which he now had to marry off.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1"/><br />
<br />
===Eliezer's Oath===<br />
Avraham asked his servant Eliezer, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that was his; to please place his hand under his thigh. One who swears must hold in his hand a religious item such as a Torah scroll or Tefillin. Since circumcision was Avraham's first mitzvah and he had fulfilled it with pain, it was dear to him; so he choose to use it.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:2">Rashi Berashis 24:2</ref> <br />
<br />
Avraham requested that Eliezer swear by Hashem the G-D of the heaven and earth, that he will not take a wife for Yitzchak from the Canaanites, in whose midst they lived. Rather he was to go to the land of Avraham's birthplace and from there find a wife for his son Yitzchak.<br />
<br />
Eliezer inquired in the case where the woman would not agree to go back with him to the Land of Cannan, would he be permitted to bring Yitchak to Aram Naharaim. Avraham responded, warning Eliezer not to bring Yitzchak there. Rather Hashem the G-D of the heavens Who took him from his father's home in Charun<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7">Rashi Berashis 24:7</ref> and Ur Kasdim<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> the land of his birth and spoke concerning<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> him and swore to him during the Bris Bein Habisarim<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> that He would give the Land of Canaan to his son, He will send His angel before Eliezer, and he should take a wife for Yitzchak from there. When Hashem first took Avraham from his father's home, he was not yet recognized amongst the people, therefore Avraham referenced Hashem only as G-D of the Heavens. Now at the time of the oath due to Avraham's great outreach efforts amongst the people who learned to recognize Hashem, he was able to reference Him as the G-D of both Heaven and Earth.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> If despite this; the woman would not agree to go with Eliezer, he will be absolved of this oath and he may select a wife for Yitzchak from the daughters of Aner, Eshkol and Mamre.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:8">Rashi Berashis 24:8</ref> Eliezer only should do not bring Yitzchak back to Aram Naharaim, although his grandson Yackov is destined to go back.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:8"/><br />
<br />
Eliezer placed his hand under the thigh of Avraham his master and swore to him concerning this matter.<br />
<br />
===Trip to Aram Naharaim===<br />
Eliezer took ten of his master's camels and went to Aram Naharaim to the city of Nachor. Avraham's camels were distinguishable from other camels, since they were muzzled to prevent them from grazing in strangers’ fields, which is a form of stealing.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10">Rashi Berashis 24:10</ref> Eliezer took in his hand a gift contract bequeathing to Yitzchak<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> the best of Avraham's assets and everything he owned.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/> This was done to expedite Besuel to send his daughter.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:10"/><br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
<br />
{{Weekly Parsha}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Parsha]]</div>Dunhttp://zissil.com/topics/Parashat-Chayei-SarahParashat-Chayei-Sarah2021-10-24T21:46:31Z<p>Dun: /* Eliezer's Oath */</p>
<hr />
<div>Parshas Chayei Sarah<br />
<br />
==Passing of Sarah==<br />
After hearing about the Akida, how Yitzchak was prepared for slaughter and almost slaughtered, Sarah's soul flew out of her and passed away.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> Her life spanned 127 years, all of them which were equally good.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1">Rashi Berashis 23:1</ref> Sarah was 100 years old but like 20 years old regarding sin, who is not yet liable for punishment and was like a 7 year old regarding beauty.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1"/> She died in Chevron in the Land of Canaan which was also named Kiryas Arba - Settlement of Four after the four giants living there; Achiman, Sheshai, Talmai and their father.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2">Rashi Berashis 23:2</ref> It also alluded to the future destiny of the city which would have four holy couples buried there; Adom and Chava, Avrahom and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/><br />
<br />
==The Burial==<br />
Avrahom came from Beer Sheva<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> to eulogize Sarah and to mourn her.<br />
<br />
===Purchasing the Cave===<br />
Avrahom arose from before his dead, and spoke to the men of Ches. He mentioned how he was a stranger from another land but had settled among them<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/> as an inhabitant of the land. He requested a piece of land<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4">Rashi Berashis 23:4</ref> by them to use as a burial plot, where he could bury his dead from before him. If they were willing to sell it to him, Avrahom would buy it like a stranger but if not he would take it legally as an inhabitant since Hashem had already promised<ref>Berashis 12:7</ref> to give his descendants the Land.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/><br />
<br />
The Sons of Ches answered Avraham calling him a prince of G-D who dwells in their midst and telling him that he could bury his dead in the choicest of their graves. None of them would withhold<ref>Rashi Berashis 23:6</ref> their graves from Avrahom burying his dead. Avraham arose and bowed to the Sons of Ches, the people of the land. He answered them that if it was their will<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8">Rashi Berashis 23:8</ref> to allow him to bury Sarah they should listen to him and request<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8"/> from Ephron ben Tzochar that he may give him the Machpelah double cave, that belongs to him which is found at the end of his field. He should give it to Avraham at its full priced value<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> as a burial property in their midst. It was called the Mearos Hamachpela since it was a two story cave<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9">Rashi Berashis 23:9</ref> and because it contained buried couples;<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> currently Adom and Chava and later Avraham and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah. Avraham wished to pay the full price of the land so later the sale could not be contested. Similarly King Dovid purchased the land of the Beis Hamikdash from Araunah at its full value.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/><br />
<br />
Ephron was sitting amongst the people of Ches since he had been appointed as an officer over them that very day and had been raised to greatness due to the importance of Avraham who needed him.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10">Rashi Berashis 23:10</ref> Ephron the Chiti answered Avraham announcing to all the people of Ches who had left their work<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> and came to the city gate, to pay respect to Sarah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> Avraham should listen to him and not purchase it with money,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11">Rashi Berashis 23:11</ref> rather Ephron is giving him the field and the cave that is in it for free in front of his people, and it is as if he has already given it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11"/> to bury his dead. Avraham bowed before the people of the land.<br />
<br />
Avraham replied to Ephron allowing the people of the land to hear, that he is not interested in accepting his offer of giving the field for free.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13">Rashi Berashis 23:13</ref> Rather if Ephron would only<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> listen to him and accept the money that he had prepared<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> and wished he had already given him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> for the field, then he will then bury his dead there.<br />
<br />
Ephron replied to Avraham, telling him that a piece of land that is worth only four hundred shekels of silver, what is its importance between two friends like them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15">Rashi Berashis 23:15</ref> It is not important so let him leave the sale<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15"/> and bury his dead. Avraham listened to Ephron and weighed out to him the 400 shekels of silver that were acceptable by all merchants, which Ephron had requested in front of the people of Ches. Ephron had promised a lot but did not nothing,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16">Rashi Berashis 23:16</ref> originally he declared that he wanted to give the cave as a gift but in the not only did he take the full payment, he took it in extra large Kentrin shekels, each worth 100 coins, that were acceptable everywhere, even in locations that used large shekels.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/> Due to this Ephron had the letter Vav subsequently removed from his name in the Torah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/><br />
<br />
Retrospectively the field of Ephron which was in Machpelah, facing Mamre, was established as Avraham's possession,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17">Rashi Berashis 23:17</ref> thereby rising from the the possession of a simple person to the possession of a king.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17"/> This included the field, the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, within its entire surrounding borders. It became Avraham's possession before the eyes of the Chetim. Ephron sold it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18">Rashi Berashis 23:18</ref> in the midst and presence<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18"/> of all who had come within the city gate.<br />
<br />
===Burial of Sarah===<br />
Afterwards, Avraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, facing Mamre, which is Hebron, in the land of Canaan. The field and the cave within it were established to Avraham as burial property, purchased from the Chitim.<br />
<br />
==Marriage of Yitzchak==<br />
===Aging of Avraham===<br />
Avraham was old, advanced in days, and Hashem had blessed Avraham with everything including a son,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1">Rashi Berashis 24:1</ref> which he now had to marry off.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1"/><br />
<br />
===Eliezer's Oath===<br />
Avraham asked his servant Eliezer, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that was his; to please place his hand under his thigh. One who swears must hold in his hand a religious item such as a Torah scroll or Tefillin. Since circumcision was Avraham's first mitzvah and he had fulfilled it with pain, it was dear to him; so he choose to use it.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:2">Rashi Berashis 24:2</ref> <br />
<br />
Avraham requested that Eliezer swear by Hashem the G-D of the heaven and earth, that he will not take a wife for Yitzchak from the Canaanites, in whose midst they lived. Rather he was to go to the land of Avraham's birthplace and from there find a wife for his son Yitzchak.<br />
<br />
Eliezer inquired in the case where the woman would not agree to go back with him to the Land of Cannan, would he be permitted to bring Yitchak to Aram Naharaim. Avraham responded, warning Eliezer not to bring Yitzchak there. Rather Hashem the G-D of the heavens Who took him from his father's home in Charun<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7">Rashi Berashis 24:7</ref> and Ur Kasdim<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> the land of his birth and spoke concerning<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> him and swore to him during the Bris Bein Habisarim<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> that He would give the Land of Canaan to his son, He will send His angel before Eliezer, and he should take a wife for Yitzchak from there. When Hashem first took Avraham from his father's home, he was not yet recognized amongst the people, therefore Avraham referenced Hashem only as G-D of the Heavens. Now at the time of the oath due to Avraham's great outreach efforts amongst the people who learned to recognize Hashem, he was able to reference Him as the G-D of both Heaven and Earth.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7"/> If despite this; the woman would not agree to go with Eliezer, he will be absolved of this oath and he may select a wife for Yitzchak from the daughters of Aner, Eshkol and Mamre.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:8">Rashi Berashis 24:8</ref> Eliezer only should do not bring Yitzchak back to Aram Naharaim, although his grandson Yackov is destined to go back.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:8"/><br />
<br />
Eliezer placed his hand under the thigh of Avraham his master and swore to him concerning this matter.<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
<br />
{{Weekly Parsha}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Parsha]]</div>Dunhttp://zissil.com/topics/Parashat-Chayei-SarahParashat-Chayei-Sarah2021-10-24T21:44:49Z<p>Dun: /* Eliezer's Oath */</p>
<hr />
<div>Parshas Chayei Sarah<br />
<br />
==Passing of Sarah==<br />
After hearing about the Akida, how Yitzchak was prepared for slaughter and almost slaughtered, Sarah's soul flew out of her and passed away.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> Her life spanned 127 years, all of them which were equally good.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1">Rashi Berashis 23:1</ref> Sarah was 100 years old but like 20 years old regarding sin, who is not yet liable for punishment and was like a 7 year old regarding beauty.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1"/> She died in Chevron in the Land of Canaan which was also named Kiryas Arba - Settlement of Four after the four giants living there; Achiman, Sheshai, Talmai and their father.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2">Rashi Berashis 23:2</ref> It also alluded to the future destiny of the city which would have four holy couples buried there; Adom and Chava, Avrahom and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/><br />
<br />
==The Burial==<br />
Avrahom came from Beer Sheva<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> to eulogize Sarah and to mourn her.<br />
<br />
===Purchasing the Cave===<br />
Avrahom arose from before his dead, and spoke to the men of Ches. He mentioned how he was a stranger from another land but had settled among them<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/> as an inhabitant of the land. He requested a piece of land<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4">Rashi Berashis 23:4</ref> by them to use as a burial plot, where he could bury his dead from before him. If they were willing to sell it to him, Avrahom would buy it like a stranger but if not he would take it legally as an inhabitant since Hashem had already promised<ref>Berashis 12:7</ref> to give his descendants the Land.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/><br />
<br />
The Sons of Ches answered Avraham calling him a prince of G-D who dwells in their midst and telling him that he could bury his dead in the choicest of their graves. None of them would withhold<ref>Rashi Berashis 23:6</ref> their graves from Avrahom burying his dead. Avraham arose and bowed to the Sons of Ches, the people of the land. He answered them that if it was their will<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8">Rashi Berashis 23:8</ref> to allow him to bury Sarah they should listen to him and request<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8"/> from Ephron ben Tzochar that he may give him the Machpelah double cave, that belongs to him which is found at the end of his field. He should give it to Avraham at its full priced value<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> as a burial property in their midst. It was called the Mearos Hamachpela since it was a two story cave<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9">Rashi Berashis 23:9</ref> and because it contained buried couples;<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> currently Adom and Chava and later Avraham and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah. Avraham wished to pay the full price of the land so later the sale could not be contested. Similarly King Dovid purchased the land of the Beis Hamikdash from Araunah at its full value.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/><br />
<br />
Ephron was sitting amongst the people of Ches since he had been appointed as an officer over them that very day and had been raised to greatness due to the importance of Avraham who needed him.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10">Rashi Berashis 23:10</ref> Ephron the Chiti answered Avraham announcing to all the people of Ches who had left their work<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> and came to the city gate, to pay respect to Sarah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> Avraham should listen to him and not purchase it with money,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11">Rashi Berashis 23:11</ref> rather Ephron is giving him the field and the cave that is in it for free in front of his people, and it is as if he has already given it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11"/> to bury his dead. Avraham bowed before the people of the land.<br />
<br />
Avraham replied to Ephron allowing the people of the land to hear, that he is not interested in accepting his offer of giving the field for free.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13">Rashi Berashis 23:13</ref> Rather if Ephron would only<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> listen to him and accept the money that he had prepared<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> and wished he had already given him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> for the field, then he will then bury his dead there.<br />
<br />
Ephron replied to Avraham, telling him that a piece of land that is worth only four hundred shekels of silver, what is its importance between two friends like them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15">Rashi Berashis 23:15</ref> It is not important so let him leave the sale<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15"/> and bury his dead. Avraham listened to Ephron and weighed out to him the 400 shekels of silver that were acceptable by all merchants, which Ephron had requested in front of the people of Ches. Ephron had promised a lot but did not nothing,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16">Rashi Berashis 23:16</ref> originally he declared that he wanted to give the cave as a gift but in the not only did he take the full payment, he took it in extra large Kentrin shekels, each worth 100 coins, that were acceptable everywhere, even in locations that used large shekels.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/> Due to this Ephron had the letter Vav subsequently removed from his name in the Torah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/><br />
<br />
Retrospectively the field of Ephron which was in Machpelah, facing Mamre, was established as Avraham's possession,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17">Rashi Berashis 23:17</ref> thereby rising from the the possession of a simple person to the possession of a king.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17"/> This included the field, the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, within its entire surrounding borders. It became Avraham's possession before the eyes of the Chetim. Ephron sold it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18">Rashi Berashis 23:18</ref> in the midst and presence<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18"/> of all who had come within the city gate.<br />
<br />
===Burial of Sarah===<br />
Afterwards, Avraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, facing Mamre, which is Hebron, in the land of Canaan. The field and the cave within it were established to Avraham as burial property, purchased from the Chitim.<br />
<br />
==Marriage of Yitzchak==<br />
===Aging of Avraham===<br />
Avraham was old, advanced in days, and Hashem had blessed Avraham with everything including a son,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1">Rashi Berashis 24:1</ref> which he now had to marry off.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1"/><br />
<br />
===Eliezer's Oath===<br />
Avraham asked his servant Eliezer, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that was his; to please place his hand under his thigh. One who swears must hold in his hand a religious item such as a Torah scroll or Tefillin. Since circumcision was Avraham's first mitzvah and he had fulfilled it with pain, it was dear to him; so he choose to use it.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:2">Rashi Berashis 24:2</ref> <br />
<br />
Avraham requested that Eliezer swear by Hashem the G-D of the heaven and earth, that he will not take a wife for Yitzchak from the Canaanites, in whose midst they lived. Rather he was to go to the land of Avraham's birthplace and from there find a wife for his son Yitzchak.<br />
<br />
Eliezer inquired in the case where the woman would not agree to go back with him to the Land of Cannan, would he be permitted to bring Yitchak to Aram Naharaim. Avraham responded, warning Eliezer not to bring Yitzchak there. Rather Hashem the G-D of the heavens Who took him from his father's home in Charun<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7">Rashi Berashis 24:7</ref> and Ur Kasdim<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:7"/> the land of his birth and spoke concerning<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:7"/> him and swore to him during the Bris Bein Habisarim<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:7"/> that He would give the Land of Canaan to his son, He will send His angel before Eliezer, and he should take a wife for Yitzchak from there. When Hashem first took Avraham from his father's home, he was not yet recognized amongst the people, therefore Avraham referenced Hashem only as G-D of the Heavens. Now at the time of the oath due to Avraham's great outreach efforts amongst the people who learned to recognize Hashem, he was able to reference Him as the G-D of both Heaven and Earth.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:7"/> If despite this; the woman would not agree to go with Eliezer, he will be absolved of this oath and he may select a wife for Yitzchak from the daughters of Aner, Eshkol and Mamre.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:8">Rashi Berashis 24:8</ref> Eliezer only should do not bring Yitzchak back to Aram Naharaim, although his grandson Yackov is destined to go back.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8"/><br />
<br />
Eliezer placed his hand under the thigh of Avraham his master and swore to him concerning this matter.<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Parsha]]</div>Dunhttp://zissil.com/topics/Parashat-Chayei-SarahParashat-Chayei-Sarah2021-10-24T21:37:28Z<p>Dun: /* Eliezer's Oath */</p>
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<div>Parshas Chayei Sarah<br />
<br />
==Passing of Sarah==<br />
After hearing about the Akida, how Yitzchak was prepared for slaughter and almost slaughtered, Sarah's soul flew out of her and passed away.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> Her life spanned 127 years, all of them which were equally good.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1">Rashi Berashis 23:1</ref> Sarah was 100 years old but like 20 years old regarding sin, who is not yet liable for punishment and was like a 7 year old regarding beauty.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1"/> She died in Chevron in the Land of Canaan which was also named Kiryas Arba - Settlement of Four after the four giants living there; Achiman, Sheshai, Talmai and their father.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2">Rashi Berashis 23:2</ref> It also alluded to the future destiny of the city which would have four holy couples buried there; Adom and Chava, Avrahom and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/><br />
<br />
==The Burial==<br />
Avrahom came from Beer Sheva<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> to eulogize Sarah and to mourn her.<br />
<br />
===Purchasing the Cave===<br />
Avrahom arose from before his dead, and spoke to the men of Ches. He mentioned how he was a stranger from another land but had settled among them<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/> as an inhabitant of the land. He requested a piece of land<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4">Rashi Berashis 23:4</ref> by them to use as a burial plot, where he could bury his dead from before him. If they were willing to sell it to him, Avrahom would buy it like a stranger but if not he would take it legally as an inhabitant since Hashem had already promised<ref>Berashis 12:7</ref> to give his descendants the Land.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/><br />
<br />
The Sons of Ches answered Avraham calling him a prince of G-D who dwells in their midst and telling him that he could bury his dead in the choicest of their graves. None of them would withhold<ref>Rashi Berashis 23:6</ref> their graves from Avrahom burying his dead. Avraham arose and bowed to the Sons of Ches, the people of the land. He answered them that if it was their will<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8">Rashi Berashis 23:8</ref> to allow him to bury Sarah they should listen to him and request<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8"/> from Ephron ben Tzochar that he may give him the Machpelah double cave, that belongs to him which is found at the end of his field. He should give it to Avraham at its full priced value<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> as a burial property in their midst. It was called the Mearos Hamachpela since it was a two story cave<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9">Rashi Berashis 23:9</ref> and because it contained buried couples;<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> currently Adom and Chava and later Avraham and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah. Avraham wished to pay the full price of the land so later the sale could not be contested. Similarly King Dovid purchased the land of the Beis Hamikdash from Araunah at its full value.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/><br />
<br />
Ephron was sitting amongst the people of Ches since he had been appointed as an officer over them that very day and had been raised to greatness due to the importance of Avraham who needed him.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10">Rashi Berashis 23:10</ref> Ephron the Chiti answered Avraham announcing to all the people of Ches who had left their work<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> and came to the city gate, to pay respect to Sarah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> Avraham should listen to him and not purchase it with money,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11">Rashi Berashis 23:11</ref> rather Ephron is giving him the field and the cave that is in it for free in front of his people, and it is as if he has already given it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11"/> to bury his dead. Avraham bowed before the people of the land.<br />
<br />
Avraham replied to Ephron allowing the people of the land to hear, that he is not interested in accepting his offer of giving the field for free.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13">Rashi Berashis 23:13</ref> Rather if Ephron would only<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> listen to him and accept the money that he had prepared<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> and wished he had already given him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> for the field, then he will then bury his dead there.<br />
<br />
Ephron replied to Avraham, telling him that a piece of land that is worth only four hundred shekels of silver, what is its importance between two friends like them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15">Rashi Berashis 23:15</ref> It is not important so let him leave the sale<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15"/> and bury his dead. Avraham listened to Ephron and weighed out to him the 400 shekels of silver that were acceptable by all merchants, which Ephron had requested in front of the people of Ches. Ephron had promised a lot but did not nothing,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16">Rashi Berashis 23:16</ref> originally he declared that he wanted to give the cave as a gift but in the not only did he take the full payment, he took it in extra large Kentrin shekels, each worth 100 coins, that were acceptable everywhere, even in locations that used large shekels.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/> Due to this Ephron had the letter Vav subsequently removed from his name in the Torah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/><br />
<br />
Retrospectively the field of Ephron which was in Machpelah, facing Mamre, was established as Avraham's possession,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17">Rashi Berashis 23:17</ref> thereby rising from the the possession of a simple person to the possession of a king.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17"/> This included the field, the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, within its entire surrounding borders. It became Avraham's possession before the eyes of the Chetim. Ephron sold it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18">Rashi Berashis 23:18</ref> in the midst and presence<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18"/> of all who had come within the city gate.<br />
<br />
===Burial of Sarah===<br />
Afterwards, Avraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, facing Mamre, which is Hebron, in the land of Canaan. The field and the cave within it were established to Avraham as burial property, purchased from the Chitim.<br />
<br />
==Marriage of Yitzchak==<br />
===Aging of Avraham===<br />
Avraham was old, advanced in days, and Hashem had blessed Avraham with everything including a son,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1">Rashi Berashis 24:1</ref> which he now had to marry off.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1"/><br />
<br />
===Eliezer's Oath===<br />
Avraham asked his servant Eliezer, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that was his; to please place his hand under his thigh. One who swears must hold in his hand a religious item such as a Torah scroll or Tefillin. Since circumcision was Avraham's first mitzvah and he had fulfilled it with pain, it was dear to him; so he choose to use it.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:2">Rashi Berashis 24:2</ref> <br />
<br />
Avraham requested that Eliezer swear by Hashem the G-D of the heaven and earth, that he will not take a wife for Yitzchak from the Canaanites, in whose midst they lived. Rather he was to go to the land of Avraham's birthplace and from there find a wife for his son Yitzchak.<br />
<br />
Eliezer inquired in the case where the woman would not agree to go back with him to the Land of Cannan, would he be permitted to bring Yitchak to Aram Naharaim. Avraham responded, warning Eliezer not to bring Yitzchak there. Rather Hashem the G-D of the heavens Who took him from his father's home in Charun<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:7">Rashi Berashis 24:7</ref> and Ur Kasdim<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:7"/> the land of his birth and spoke to him and swore to him that He would give the Land of Canaan to his son, He will send His angel before Eliezer, and he should take a wife for Yitzchak from there. When Hashem first took Avraham from his father's home, he was not yet recognized amongst the people, therefore Avraham referenced Hashem only as G-D of the Heavens. Now at the time of the oath due to Avraham's great outreach efforts amongst the people who learned to recognize Hashem, he was able to reference Him as the G-D of both Heaven and Earth.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:7"/><br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
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{{Weekly Parsha}}<br />
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[[Category:Parsha]]</div>Dunhttp://zissil.com/topics/Parashat-Chayei-SarahParashat-Chayei-Sarah2021-10-24T21:29:55Z<p>Dun: /* Eliezer's Oath */</p>
<hr />
<div>Parshas Chayei Sarah<br />
<br />
==Passing of Sarah==<br />
After hearing about the Akida, how Yitzchak was prepared for slaughter and almost slaughtered, Sarah's soul flew out of her and passed away.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> Her life spanned 127 years, all of them which were equally good.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1">Rashi Berashis 23:1</ref> Sarah was 100 years old but like 20 years old regarding sin, who is not yet liable for punishment and was like a 7 year old regarding beauty.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1"/> She died in Chevron in the Land of Canaan which was also named Kiryas Arba - Settlement of Four after the four giants living there; Achiman, Sheshai, Talmai and their father.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2">Rashi Berashis 23:2</ref> It also alluded to the future destiny of the city which would have four holy couples buried there; Adom and Chava, Avrahom and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/><br />
<br />
==The Burial==<br />
Avrahom came from Beer Sheva<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> to eulogize Sarah and to mourn her.<br />
<br />
===Purchasing the Cave===<br />
Avrahom arose from before his dead, and spoke to the men of Ches. He mentioned how he was a stranger from another land but had settled among them<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/> as an inhabitant of the land. He requested a piece of land<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4">Rashi Berashis 23:4</ref> by them to use as a burial plot, where he could bury his dead from before him. If they were willing to sell it to him, Avrahom would buy it like a stranger but if not he would take it legally as an inhabitant since Hashem had already promised<ref>Berashis 12:7</ref> to give his descendants the Land.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/><br />
<br />
The Sons of Ches answered Avraham calling him a prince of G-D who dwells in their midst and telling him that he could bury his dead in the choicest of their graves. None of them would withhold<ref>Rashi Berashis 23:6</ref> their graves from Avrahom burying his dead. Avraham arose and bowed to the Sons of Ches, the people of the land. He answered them that if it was their will<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8">Rashi Berashis 23:8</ref> to allow him to bury Sarah they should listen to him and request<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8"/> from Ephron ben Tzochar that he may give him the Machpelah double cave, that belongs to him which is found at the end of his field. He should give it to Avraham at its full priced value<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> as a burial property in their midst. It was called the Mearos Hamachpela since it was a two story cave<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9">Rashi Berashis 23:9</ref> and because it contained buried couples;<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> currently Adom and Chava and later Avraham and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah. Avraham wished to pay the full price of the land so later the sale could not be contested. Similarly King Dovid purchased the land of the Beis Hamikdash from Araunah at its full value.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/><br />
<br />
Ephron was sitting amongst the people of Ches since he had been appointed as an officer over them that very day and had been raised to greatness due to the importance of Avraham who needed him.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10">Rashi Berashis 23:10</ref> Ephron the Chiti answered Avraham announcing to all the people of Ches who had left their work<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> and came to the city gate, to pay respect to Sarah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> Avraham should listen to him and not purchase it with money,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11">Rashi Berashis 23:11</ref> rather Ephron is giving him the field and the cave that is in it for free in front of his people, and it is as if he has already given it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11"/> to bury his dead. Avraham bowed before the people of the land.<br />
<br />
Avraham replied to Ephron allowing the people of the land to hear, that he is not interested in accepting his offer of giving the field for free.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13">Rashi Berashis 23:13</ref> Rather if Ephron would only<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> listen to him and accept the money that he had prepared<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> and wished he had already given him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> for the field, then he will then bury his dead there.<br />
<br />
Ephron replied to Avraham, telling him that a piece of land that is worth only four hundred shekels of silver, what is its importance between two friends like them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15">Rashi Berashis 23:15</ref> It is not important so let him leave the sale<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15"/> and bury his dead. Avraham listened to Ephron and weighed out to him the 400 shekels of silver that were acceptable by all merchants, which Ephron had requested in front of the people of Ches. Ephron had promised a lot but did not nothing,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16">Rashi Berashis 23:16</ref> originally he declared that he wanted to give the cave as a gift but in the not only did he take the full payment, he took it in extra large Kentrin shekels, each worth 100 coins, that were acceptable everywhere, even in locations that used large shekels.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/> Due to this Ephron had the letter Vav subsequently removed from his name in the Torah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/><br />
<br />
Retrospectively the field of Ephron which was in Machpelah, facing Mamre, was established as Avraham's possession,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17">Rashi Berashis 23:17</ref> thereby rising from the the possession of a simple person to the possession of a king.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17"/> This included the field, the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, within its entire surrounding borders. It became Avraham's possession before the eyes of the Chetim. Ephron sold it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18">Rashi Berashis 23:18</ref> in the midst and presence<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18"/> of all who had come within the city gate.<br />
<br />
===Burial of Sarah===<br />
Afterwards, Avraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, facing Mamre, which is Hebron, in the land of Canaan. The field and the cave within it were established to Avraham as burial property, purchased from the Chitim.<br />
<br />
==Marriage of Yitzchak==<br />
===Aging of Avraham===<br />
Avraham was old, advanced in days, and Hashem had blessed Avraham with everything including a son,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1">Rashi Berashis 24:1</ref> which he now had to marry off.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1"/><br />
<br />
===Eliezer's Oath===<br />
Avraham asked his servant Eliezer, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that was his; to please place his hand under his thigh. One who swears must hold in his hand a religious item such as a Torah scroll or Tefillin. Since circumcision was Avraham's first mitzvah and he had fulfilled it with pain, it was dear to him; so he choose to use it.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:2">Rashi Berashis 24:2</ref> <br />
<br />
Avraham requested that Eliezer swear by Hashem the G-D of the heaven and earth, that he will not take a wife for Yitzchak from the Canaanites, in whose midst they lived. Rather he was to go to the land of Avraham's birthplace and from there find a wife for his son Yitzchak.<br />
<br />
Eliezer inquired in the case where the woman would not agree to go back with him to the Land of Cannan, would he be permitted to bring Yitchak to Aram Nharaim. Avraham responded, warning Eliezer not to bring Yitzchak there. Rather Hashem the G-D of the heavens Who took him from his father's home and the land of his birth and spoke to him and swore to him that He would give the Land of Canaan to his son, He will send His angel before Eliezer, and he should take a wife for Yitzchak from there.<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
<br />
{{Weekly Parsha}}<br />
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[[Category:Parsha]]</div>Dunhttp://zissil.com/topics/Parashat-Chayei-SarahParashat-Chayei-Sarah2021-10-24T21:25:19Z<p>Dun: /* Eliezer's Mission */</p>
<hr />
<div>Parshas Chayei Sarah<br />
<br />
==Passing of Sarah==<br />
After hearing about the Akida, how Yitzchak was prepared for slaughter and almost slaughtered, Sarah's soul flew out of her and passed away.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> Her life spanned 127 years, all of them which were equally good.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1">Rashi Berashis 23:1</ref> Sarah was 100 years old but like 20 years old regarding sin, who is not yet liable for punishment and was like a 7 year old regarding beauty.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1"/> She died in Chevron in the Land of Canaan which was also named Kiryas Arba - Settlement of Four after the four giants living there; Achiman, Sheshai, Talmai and their father.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2">Rashi Berashis 23:2</ref> It also alluded to the future destiny of the city which would have four holy couples buried there; Adom and Chava, Avrahom and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/><br />
<br />
==The Burial==<br />
Avrahom came from Beer Sheva<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> to eulogize Sarah and to mourn her.<br />
<br />
===Purchasing the Cave===<br />
Avrahom arose from before his dead, and spoke to the men of Ches. He mentioned how he was a stranger from another land but had settled among them<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/> as an inhabitant of the land. He requested a piece of land<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4">Rashi Berashis 23:4</ref> by them to use as a burial plot, where he could bury his dead from before him. If they were willing to sell it to him, Avrahom would buy it like a stranger but if not he would take it legally as an inhabitant since Hashem had already promised<ref>Berashis 12:7</ref> to give his descendants the Land.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/><br />
<br />
The Sons of Ches answered Avraham calling him a prince of G-D who dwells in their midst and telling him that he could bury his dead in the choicest of their graves. None of them would withhold<ref>Rashi Berashis 23:6</ref> their graves from Avrahom burying his dead. Avraham arose and bowed to the Sons of Ches, the people of the land. He answered them that if it was their will<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8">Rashi Berashis 23:8</ref> to allow him to bury Sarah they should listen to him and request<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8"/> from Ephron ben Tzochar that he may give him the Machpelah double cave, that belongs to him which is found at the end of his field. He should give it to Avraham at its full priced value<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> as a burial property in their midst. It was called the Mearos Hamachpela since it was a two story cave<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9">Rashi Berashis 23:9</ref> and because it contained buried couples;<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> currently Adom and Chava and later Avraham and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah. Avraham wished to pay the full price of the land so later the sale could not be contested. Similarly King Dovid purchased the land of the Beis Hamikdash from Araunah at its full value.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/><br />
<br />
Ephron was sitting amongst the people of Ches since he had been appointed as an officer over them that very day and had been raised to greatness due to the importance of Avraham who needed him.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10">Rashi Berashis 23:10</ref> Ephron the Chiti answered Avraham announcing to all the people of Ches who had left their work<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> and came to the city gate, to pay respect to Sarah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> Avraham should listen to him and not purchase it with money,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11">Rashi Berashis 23:11</ref> rather Ephron is giving him the field and the cave that is in it for free in front of his people, and it is as if he has already given it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11"/> to bury his dead. Avraham bowed before the people of the land.<br />
<br />
Avraham replied to Ephron allowing the people of the land to hear, that he is not interested in accepting his offer of giving the field for free.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13">Rashi Berashis 23:13</ref> Rather if Ephron would only<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> listen to him and accept the money that he had prepared<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> and wished he had already given him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> for the field, then he will then bury his dead there.<br />
<br />
Ephron replied to Avraham, telling him that a piece of land that is worth only four hundred shekels of silver, what is its importance between two friends like them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15">Rashi Berashis 23:15</ref> It is not important so let him leave the sale<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15"/> and bury his dead. Avraham listened to Ephron and weighed out to him the 400 shekels of silver that were acceptable by all merchants, which Ephron had requested in front of the people of Ches. Ephron had promised a lot but did not nothing,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16">Rashi Berashis 23:16</ref> originally he declared that he wanted to give the cave as a gift but in the not only did he take the full payment, he took it in extra large Kentrin shekels, each worth 100 coins, that were acceptable everywhere, even in locations that used large shekels.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/> Due to this Ephron had the letter Vav subsequently removed from his name in the Torah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/><br />
<br />
Retrospectively the field of Ephron which was in Machpelah, facing Mamre, was established as Avraham's possession,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17">Rashi Berashis 23:17</ref> thereby rising from the the possession of a simple person to the possession of a king.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17"/> This included the field, the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, within its entire surrounding borders. It became Avraham's possession before the eyes of the Chetim. Ephron sold it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18">Rashi Berashis 23:18</ref> in the midst and presence<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18"/> of all who had come within the city gate.<br />
<br />
===Burial of Sarah===<br />
Afterwards, Avraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, facing Mamre, which is Hebron, in the land of Canaan. The field and the cave within it were established to Avraham as burial property, purchased from the Chitim.<br />
<br />
==Marriage of Yitzchak==<br />
===Aging of Avraham===<br />
Avraham was old, advanced in days, and Hashem had blessed Avraham with everything including a son,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1">Rashi Berashis 24:1</ref> which he now had to marry off.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1"/><br />
<br />
===Eliezer's Oath===<br />
Avraham asked his servant Eliezer, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that was his; to please place his hand under his thigh. One who swears must hold in his hand a religious item such as a Torah scroll or Tefillin. Since circumcision was Avraham's first mitzvah and he had fulfilled it with pain, it was dear to him; so he choose to use it.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:2">Rashi Berashis 24:2</ref> <br />
<br />
Avraham requested that Eliezer swear by Hashem the G-D of the heaven and earth, that he will not take a wife for Yitzchak from the Canaanites, in whose midst they lived. Rather he was to go to the land of Avraham's birthplace and from there find a wife for his son Yitzchak.<br />
<br />
Eliezer inquired in the case where the woman would not agree to go back with him to the Land of Cannan, would he be permitted to bring Yitchak to Aram Nharaim.<br />
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==References==<br />
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<div>Parshas Chayei Sarah<br />
<br />
==Passing of Sarah==<br />
After hearing about the Akida, how Yitzchak was prepared for slaughter and almost slaughtered, Sarah's soul flew out of her and passed away.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> Her life spanned 127 years, all of them which were equally good.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1">Rashi Berashis 23:1</ref> Sarah was 100 years old but like 20 years old regarding sin, who is not yet liable for punishment and was like a 7 year old regarding beauty.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1"/> She died in Chevron in the Land of Canaan which was also named Kiryas Arba - Settlement of Four after the four giants living there; Achiman, Sheshai, Talmai and their father.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2">Rashi Berashis 23:2</ref> It also alluded to the future destiny of the city which would have four holy couples buried there; Adom and Chava, Avrahom and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/><br />
<br />
==The Burial==<br />
Avrahom came from Beer Sheva<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> to eulogize Sarah and to mourn her.<br />
<br />
===Purchasing the Cave===<br />
Avrahom arose from before his dead, and spoke to the men of Ches. He mentioned how he was a stranger from another land but had settled among them<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/> as an inhabitant of the land. He requested a piece of land<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4">Rashi Berashis 23:4</ref> by them to use as a burial plot, where he could bury his dead from before him. If they were willing to sell it to him, Avrahom would buy it like a stranger but if not he would take it legally as an inhabitant since Hashem had already promised<ref>Berashis 12:7</ref> to give his descendants the Land.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/><br />
<br />
The Sons of Ches answered Avraham calling him a prince of G-D who dwells in their midst and telling him that he could bury his dead in the choicest of their graves. None of them would withhold<ref>Rashi Berashis 23:6</ref> their graves from Avrahom burying his dead. Avraham arose and bowed to the Sons of Ches, the people of the land. He answered them that if it was their will<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8">Rashi Berashis 23:8</ref> to allow him to bury Sarah they should listen to him and request<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8"/> from Ephron ben Tzochar that he may give him the Machpelah double cave, that belongs to him which is found at the end of his field. He should give it to Avraham at its full priced value<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> as a burial property in their midst. It was called the Mearos Hamachpela since it was a two story cave<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9">Rashi Berashis 23:9</ref> and because it contained buried couples;<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> currently Adom and Chava and later Avraham and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah. Avraham wished to pay the full price of the land so later the sale could not be contested. Similarly King Dovid purchased the land of the Beis Hamikdash from Araunah at its full value.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/><br />
<br />
Ephron was sitting amongst the people of Ches since he had been appointed as an officer over them that very day and had been raised to greatness due to the importance of Avraham who needed him.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10">Rashi Berashis 23:10</ref> Ephron the Chiti answered Avraham announcing to all the people of Ches who had left their work<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> and came to the city gate, to pay respect to Sarah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> Avraham should listen to him and not purchase it with money,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11">Rashi Berashis 23:11</ref> rather Ephron is giving him the field and the cave that is in it for free in front of his people, and it is as if he has already given it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11"/> to bury his dead. Avraham bowed before the people of the land.<br />
<br />
Avraham replied to Ephron allowing the people of the land to hear, that he is not interested in accepting his offer of giving the field for free.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13">Rashi Berashis 23:13</ref> Rather if Ephron would only<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> listen to him and accept the money that he had prepared<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> and wished he had already given him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> for the field, then he will then bury his dead there.<br />
<br />
Ephron replied to Avraham, telling him that a piece of land that is worth only four hundred shekels of silver, what is its importance between two friends like them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15">Rashi Berashis 23:15</ref> It is not important so let him leave the sale<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15"/> and bury his dead. Avraham listened to Ephron and weighed out to him the 400 shekels of silver that were acceptable by all merchants, which Ephron had requested in front of the people of Ches. Ephron had promised a lot but did not nothing,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16">Rashi Berashis 23:16</ref> originally he declared that he wanted to give the cave as a gift but in the not only did he take the full payment, he took it in extra large Kentrin shekels, each worth 100 coins, that were acceptable everywhere, even in locations that used large shekels.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/> Due to this Ephron had the letter Vav subsequently removed from his name in the Torah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/><br />
<br />
Retrospectively the field of Ephron which was in Machpelah, facing Mamre, was established as Avraham's possession,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17">Rashi Berashis 23:17</ref> thereby rising from the the possession of a simple person to the possession of a king.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17"/> This included the field, the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, within its entire surrounding borders. It became Avraham's possession before the eyes of the Chetim. Ephron sold it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18">Rashi Berashis 23:18</ref> in the midst and presence<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18"/> of all who had come within the city gate.<br />
<br />
===Burial of Sarah===<br />
Afterwards, Avraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, facing Mamre, which is Hebron, in the land of Canaan. The field and the cave within it were established to Avraham as burial property, purchased from the Chitim.<br />
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==Marriage of Yitzchak==<br />
===Aging of Avraham===<br />
Avraham was old, advanced in days, and Hashem had blessed Avraham with everything including a son,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1">Rashi Berashis 24:1</ref> which he now had to marry off.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:1"/><br />
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===Eliezer's Mission===<br />
Avraham asked his servant Eliezer, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that was his; to please place his hand under his thigh. One who swears must hold in his hand a religious item such as a Torah scroll or Tefillin. Since circumcision was Avraham's first mitzvah and he had fulfilled it with pain, it was dear to him; so he choose to use it.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 24:2">Rashi Berashis 24:2</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Parsha]]</div>Dunhttp://zissil.com/topics/Parashat-Chayei-SarahParashat-Chayei-Sarah2021-10-24T21:11:19Z<p>Dun: /* The Burial */</p>
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<div>Parshas Chayei Sarah<br />
<br />
==Passing of Sarah==<br />
After hearing about the Akida, how Yitzchak was prepared for slaughter and almost slaughtered, Sarah's soul flew out of her and passed away.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> Her life spanned 127 years, all of them which were equally good.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1">Rashi Berashis 23:1</ref> Sarah was 100 years old but like 20 years old regarding sin, who is not yet liable for punishment and was like a 7 year old regarding beauty.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1"/> She died in Chevron in the Land of Canaan which was also named Kiryas Arba - Settlement of Four after the four giants living there; Achiman, Sheshai, Talmai and their father.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2">Rashi Berashis 23:2</ref> It also alluded to the future destiny of the city which would have four holy couples buried there; Adom and Chava, Avrahom and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/><br />
<br />
==The Burial==<br />
Avrahom came from Beer Sheva<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> to eulogize Sarah and to mourn her.<br />
<br />
===Purchasing the Cave===<br />
Avrahom arose from before his dead, and spoke to the men of Ches. He mentioned how he was a stranger from another land but had settled among them<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/> as an inhabitant of the land. He requested a piece of land<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4">Rashi Berashis 23:4</ref> by them to use as a burial plot, where he could bury his dead from before him. If they were willing to sell it to him, Avrahom would buy it like a stranger but if not he would take it legally as an inhabitant since Hashem had already promised<ref>Berashis 12:7</ref> to give his descendants the Land.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/><br />
<br />
The Sons of Ches answered Avraham calling him a prince of G-D who dwells in their midst and telling him that he could bury his dead in the choicest of their graves. None of them would withhold<ref>Rashi Berashis 23:6</ref> their graves from Avrahom burying his dead. Avraham arose and bowed to the Sons of Ches, the people of the land. He answered them that if it was their will<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8">Rashi Berashis 23:8</ref> to allow him to bury Sarah they should listen to him and request<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8"/> from Ephron ben Tzochar that he may give him the Machpelah double cave, that belongs to him which is found at the end of his field. He should give it to Avraham at its full priced value<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> as a burial property in their midst. It was called the Mearos Hamachpela since it was a two story cave<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9">Rashi Berashis 23:9</ref> and because it contained buried couples;<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> currently Adom and Chava and later Avraham and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah. Avraham wished to pay the full price of the land so later the sale could not be contested. Similarly King Dovid purchased the land of the Beis Hamikdash from Araunah at its full value.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/><br />
<br />
Ephron was sitting amongst the people of Ches since he had been appointed as an officer over them that very day and had been raised to greatness due to the importance of Avraham who needed him.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10">Rashi Berashis 23:10</ref> Ephron the Chiti answered Avraham announcing to all the people of Ches who had left their work<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> and came to the city gate, to pay respect to Sarah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> Avraham should listen to him and not purchase it with money,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11">Rashi Berashis 23:11</ref> rather Ephron is giving him the field and the cave that is in it for free in front of his people, and it is as if he has already given it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11"/> to bury his dead. Avraham bowed before the people of the land.<br />
<br />
Avraham replied to Ephron allowing the people of the land to hear, that he is not interested in accepting his offer of giving the field for free.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13">Rashi Berashis 23:13</ref> Rather if Ephron would only<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> listen to him and accept the money that he had prepared<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> and wished he had already given him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> for the field, then he will then bury his dead there.<br />
<br />
Ephron replied to Avraham, telling him that a piece of land that is worth only four hundred shekels of silver, what is its importance between two friends like them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15">Rashi Berashis 23:15</ref> It is not important so let him leave the sale<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15"/> and bury his dead. Avraham listened to Ephron and weighed out to him the 400 shekels of silver that were acceptable by all merchants, which Ephron had requested in front of the people of Ches. Ephron had promised a lot but did not nothing,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16">Rashi Berashis 23:16</ref> originally he declared that he wanted to give the cave as a gift but in the not only did he take the full payment, he took it in extra large Kentrin shekels, each worth 100 coins, that were acceptable everywhere, even in locations that used large shekels.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/> Due to this Ephron had the letter Vav subsequently removed from his name in the Torah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/><br />
<br />
Retrospectively the field of Ephron which was in Machpelah, facing Mamre, was established as Avraham's possession,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17">Rashi Berashis 23:17</ref> thereby rising from the the possession of a simple person to the possession of a king.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17"/> This included the field, the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, within its entire surrounding borders. It became Avraham's possession before the eyes of the Chetim. Ephron sold it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18">Rashi Berashis 23:18</ref> in the midst and presence<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18"/> of all who had come within the city gate.<br />
<br />
===Burial of Sarah===<br />
Afterwards, Avraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, facing Mamre, which is Hebron, in the land of Canaan. The field and the cave within it were established to Avraham as burial property, purchased from the Chitim.<br />
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==References==<br />
<references/><br />
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{{Weekly Parsha}}<br />
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[[Category:Parsha]]</div>Dunhttp://zissil.com/topics/Parashat-Chayei-SarahParashat-Chayei-Sarah2021-10-24T21:08:57Z<p>Dun: /* Purchasing the Cave */</p>
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<div>Parshas Chayei Sarah<br />
<br />
==Passing of Sarah==<br />
After hearing about the Akida, how Yitzchak was prepared for slaughter and almost slaughtered, Sarah's soul flew out of her and passed away.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> Her life spanned 127 years, all of them which were equally good.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1">Rashi Berashis 23:1</ref> Sarah was 100 years old but like 20 years old regarding sin, who is not yet liable for punishment and was like a 7 year old regarding beauty.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1"/> She died in Chevron in the Land of Canaan which was also named Kiryas Arba - Settlement of Four after the four giants living there; Achiman, Sheshai, Talmai and their father.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2">Rashi Berashis 23:2</ref> It also alluded to the future destiny of the city which would have four holy couples buried there; Adom and Chava, Avrahom and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/><br />
<br />
==The Burial==<br />
Avrahom came from Beer Sheva<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> to eulogize Sarah and to mourn her.<br />
<br />
===Purchasing the Cave===<br />
Avrahom arose from before his dead, and spoke to the men of Ches. He mentioned how he was a stranger from another land but had settled among them<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/> as an inhabitant of the land. He requested a piece of land<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4">Rashi Berashis 23:4</ref> by them to use as a burial plot, where he could bury his dead from before him. If they were willing to sell it to him, Avrahom would buy it like a stranger but if not he would take it legally as an inhabitant since Hashem had already promised<ref>Berashis 12:7</ref> to give his descendants the Land.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/><br />
<br />
The Sons of Ches answered Avraham calling him a prince of G-D who dwells in their midst and telling him that he could bury his dead in the choicest of their graves. None of them would withhold<ref>Rashi Berashis 23:6</ref> their graves from Avrahom burying his dead. Avraham arose and bowed to the Sons of Ches, the people of the land. He answered them that if it was their will<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8">Rashi Berashis 23:8</ref> to allow him to bury Sarah they should listen to him and request<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8"/> from Ephron ben Tzochar that he may give him the Machpelah double cave, that belongs to him which is found at the end of his field. He should give it to Avraham at its full priced value<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> as a burial property in their midst. It was called the Mearos Hamachpela since it was a two story cave<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9">Rashi Berashis 23:9</ref> and because it contained buried couples;<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> currently Adom and Chava and later Avraham and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah. Avraham wished to pay the full price of the land so later the sale could not be contested. Similarly King Dovid purchased the land of the Beis Hamikdash from Araunah at its full value.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/><br />
<br />
Ephron was sitting amongst the people of Ches since he had been appointed as an officer over them that very day and had been raised to greatness due to the importance of Avraham who needed him.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10">Rashi Berashis 23:10</ref> Ephron the Chiti answered Avraham announcing to all the people of Ches who had left their work<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> and came to the city gate, to pay respect to Sarah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> Avraham should listen to him and not purchase it with money,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11">Rashi Berashis 23:11</ref> rather Ephron is giving him the field and the cave that is in it for free in front of his people, and it is as if he has already given it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11"/> to bury his dead. Avraham bowed before the people of the land.<br />
<br />
Avraham replied to Ephron allowing the people of the land to hear, that he is not interested in accepting his offer of giving the field for free.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13">Rashi Berashis 23:13</ref> Rather if Ephron would only<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> listen to him and accept the money that he had prepared<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> and wished he had already given him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> for the field, then he will then bury his dead there.<br />
<br />
Ephron replied to Avraham, telling him that a piece of land that is worth only four hundred shekels of silver, what is its importance between two friends like them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15">Rashi Berashis 23:15</ref> It is not important so let him leave the sale<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15"/> and bury his dead. Avraham listened to Ephron and weighed out to him the 400 shekels of silver that were acceptable by all merchants, which Ephron had requested in front of the people of Ches. Ephron had promised a lot but did not nothing,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16">Rashi Berashis 23:16</ref> originally he declared that he wanted to give the cave as a gift but in the not only did he take the full payment, he took it in extra large Kentrin shekels, each worth 100 coins, that were acceptable everywhere, even in locations that used large shekels.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/> Due to this Ephron had the letter Vav subsequently removed from his name in the Torah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/><br />
<br />
Retrospectively the field of Ephron which was in Machpelah, facing Mamre, was established as Avraham's possession,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17">Rashi Berashis 23:17</ref> thereby rising from the the possession of a simple person to the possession of a king.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17"/> This included the field, the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, within its entire surrounding borders. It became Avraham's possession before the eyes of the Chetim. Ephron sold it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18">Rashi Berashis 23:18</ref> in the midst and presence<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:18"/> of all who had come within the city gate.<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
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{{Weekly Parsha}}<br />
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[[Category:Parsha]]</div>Dunhttp://zissil.com/topics/Parashat-Chayei-SarahParashat-Chayei-Sarah2021-10-24T21:05:54Z<p>Dun: /* Purchasing the Cave */</p>
<hr />
<div>Parshas Chayei Sarah<br />
<br />
==Passing of Sarah==<br />
After hearing about the Akida, how Yitzchak was prepared for slaughter and almost slaughtered, Sarah's soul flew out of her and passed away.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> Her life spanned 127 years, all of them which were equally good.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1">Rashi Berashis 23:1</ref> Sarah was 100 years old but like 20 years old regarding sin, who is not yet liable for punishment and was like a 7 year old regarding beauty.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1"/> She died in Chevron in the Land of Canaan which was also named Kiryas Arba - Settlement of Four after the four giants living there; Achiman, Sheshai, Talmai and their father.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2">Rashi Berashis 23:2</ref> It also alluded to the future destiny of the city which would have four holy couples buried there; Adom and Chava, Avrahom and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/><br />
<br />
==The Burial==<br />
Avrahom came from Beer Sheva<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> to eulogize Sarah and to mourn her.<br />
<br />
===Purchasing the Cave===<br />
Avrahom arose from before his dead, and spoke to the men of Ches. He mentioned how he was a stranger from another land but had settled among them<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/> as an inhabitant of the land. He requested a piece of land<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4">Rashi Berashis 23:4</ref> by them to use as a burial plot, where he could bury his dead from before him. If they were willing to sell it to him, Avrahom would buy it like a stranger but if not he would take it legally as an inhabitant since Hashem had already promised<ref>Berashis 12:7</ref> to give his descendants the Land.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/><br />
<br />
The Sons of Ches answered Avraham calling him a prince of G-D who dwells in their midst and telling him that he could bury his dead in the choicest of their graves. None of them would withhold<ref>Rashi Berashis 23:6</ref> their graves from Avrahom burying his dead. Avraham arose and bowed to the Sons of Ches, the people of the land. He answered them that if it was their will<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8">Rashi Berashis 23:8</ref> to allow him to bury Sarah they should listen to him and request<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8"/> from Ephron ben Tzochar that he may give him the Machpelah double cave, that belongs to him which is found at the end of his field. He should give it to Avraham at its full priced value<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> as a burial property in their midst. It was called the Mearos Hamachpela since it was a two story cave<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9">Rashi Berashis 23:9</ref> and because it contained buried couples;<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> currently Adom and Chava and later Avraham and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah. Avraham wished to pay the full price of the land so later the sale could not be contested. Similarly King Dovid purchased the land of the Beis Hamikdash from Araunah at its full value.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/><br />
<br />
Ephron was sitting amongst the people of Ches since he had been appointed as an officer over them that very day and had been raised to greatness due to the importance of Avraham who needed him.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10">Rashi Berashis 23:10</ref> Ephron the Chiti answered Avraham announcing to all the people of Ches who had left their work<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> and came to the city gate, to pay respect to Sarah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> Avraham should listen to him and not purchase it with money,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11">Rashi Berashis 23:11</ref> rather Ephron is giving him the field and the cave that is in it for free in front of his people, and it is as if he has already given it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11"/> to bury his dead. Avraham bowed before the people of the land.<br />
<br />
Avraham replied to Ephron allowing the people of the land to hear, that he is not interested in accepting his offer of giving the field for free.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13">Rashi Berashis 23:13</ref> Rather if Ephron would only<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> listen to him and accept the money that he had prepared<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> and wished he had already given him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> for the field, then he will then bury his dead there.<br />
<br />
Ephron replied to Avraham, telling him that a piece of land that is worth only four hundred shekels of silver, what is its importance between two friends like them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15">Rashi Berashis 23:15</ref> It is not important so let him leave the sale<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15"/> and bury his dead. Avraham listened to Ephron and weighed out to him the 400 shekels of silver that were acceptable by all merchants, which Ephron had requested in front of the people of Ches. Ephron had promised a lot but did not nothing,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16">Rashi Berashis 23:16</ref> originally he declared that he wanted to give the cave as a gift but in the not only did he take the full payment, he took it in extra large Kentrin shekels, each worth 100 coins, that were acceptable everywhere, even in locations that used large shekels.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/> Due to this Ephron had the letter Vav subsequently removed from his name in the Torah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/><br />
<br />
Retrospectively the field of Ephron which was in Machpelah, facing Mamre, was established as Avraham's possession,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17">Rashi Berashis 23:17</ref> thereby rising from the the possession of a simple person to the possession of a king.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17"/> This included the field, the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, within its entire surrounding borders. It became Avraham's possession before the eyes of the Chetim, in the presence of all who had come within the city gate.<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
<br />
{{Weekly Parsha}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Parsha]]</div>Dunhttp://zissil.com/topics/Parashat-Chayei-SarahParashat-Chayei-Sarah2021-10-24T21:03:38Z<p>Dun: /* The Burial */</p>
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<div>Parshas Chayei Sarah<br />
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==Passing of Sarah==<br />
After hearing about the Akida, how Yitzchak was prepared for slaughter and almost slaughtered, Sarah's soul flew out of her and passed away.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> Her life spanned 127 years, all of them which were equally good.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1">Rashi Berashis 23:1</ref> Sarah was 100 years old but like 20 years old regarding sin, who is not yet liable for punishment and was like a 7 year old regarding beauty.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1"/> She died in Chevron in the Land of Canaan which was also named Kiryas Arba - Settlement of Four after the four giants living there; Achiman, Sheshai, Talmai and their father.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2">Rashi Berashis 23:2</ref> It also alluded to the future destiny of the city which would have four holy couples buried there; Adom and Chava, Avrahom and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/><br />
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==The Burial==<br />
Avrahom came from Beer Sheva<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> to eulogize Sarah and to mourn her.<br />
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===Purchasing the Cave===<br />
Avrahom arose from before his dead, and spoke to the men of Ches. He mentioned how he was a stranger from another land but had settled among them<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/> as an inhabitant of the land. He requested a piece of land<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4">Rashi Berashis 23:4</ref> by them to use as a burial plot, where he could bury his dead from before him. If they were willing to sell it to him, Avrahom would buy it like a stranger but if not he would take it legally as an inhabitant since Hashem had already promised<ref>Berashis 12:7</ref> to give his descendants the Land.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/><br />
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The Sons of Ches answered Avraham calling him a prince of G-D who dwells in their midst and telling him that he could bury his dead in the choicest of their graves. None of them would withhold<ref>Rashi Berashis 23:6</ref> their graves from Avrahom burying his dead. Avraham arose and bowed to the Sons of Ches, the people of the land. He answered them that if it was their will<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8">Rashi Berashis 23:8</ref> to allow him to bury Sarah they should listen to him and request<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8"/> from Ephron ben Tzochar that he may give him the Machpelah double cave, that belongs to him which is found at the end of his field. He should give it to Avraham at its full priced value<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> as a burial property in their midst. It was called the Mearos Hamachpela since it was a two story cave<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9">Rashi Berashis 23:9</ref> and because it contained buried couples;<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> currently Adom and Chava and later Avraham and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah. Avraham wished to pay the full price of the land so later the sale could not be contested. Similarly King Dovid purchased the land of the Beis Hamikdash from Araunah at its full value.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/><br />
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Ephron was sitting amongst the people of Ches since he had been appointed as an officer over them that very day and had been raised to greatness due to the importance of Avraham who needed him.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10">Rashi Berashis 23:10</ref> Ephron the Chiti answered Avraham announcing to all the people of Ches who had left their work<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> and came to the city gate, to pay respect to Sarah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> Avraham should listen to him and not purchase it with money,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11">Rashi Berashis 23:11</ref> rather Ephron is giving him the field and the cave that is in it for free in front of his people, and it is as if he has already given it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11"/> to bury his dead. Avraham bowed before the people of the land.<br />
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Avraham replied to Ephron allowing the people of the land to hear, that he is not interested in accepting his offer of giving the field for free.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13">Rashi Berashis 23:13</ref> Rather if Ephron would only<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> listen to him and accept the money that he had prepared<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> and wished he had already given him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> for the field, then he will then bury his dead there.<br />
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Ephron replied to Avraham, telling him that a piece of land that is worth only four hundred shekels of silver, what is its importance between two friends like them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15">Rashi Berashis 23:15</ref> It is not important so let him leave the sale<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15"/> and bury his dead. Avraham listened to Ephron and weighed out to him the 400 shekels of silver that were acceptable by all merchants, which Ephron had requested in front of the people of Ches. Ephron had promised a lot but did not nothing,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16">Rashi Berashis 23:16</ref> originally he declared that he wanted to give the cave as a gift but in the not only did he take the full payment, he took it in extra large Kentrin shekels, each worth 100 coins, that were acceptable everywhere, even in locations that used large shekels.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/> Due to this Ephron had the letter Vav subsequently removed from his name in the Torah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/><br />
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Retrospectively the field of Ephron which was in Machpelah, facing Mamre, was established as Avraham's possession,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17">Rashi Berashis 23:17</ref> thereby rising from the the possession of a simple person to the possession of a king.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:17"/> This included the field, the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, within its entire surrounding borders.<br />
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<div>Parshas Chayei Sarah<br />
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==Passing of Sarah==<br />
After hearing about the Akida, how Yitzchak was prepared for slaughter and almost slaughtered, Sarah's soul flew out of her and passed away.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> Her life spanned 127 years, all of them which were equally good.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1">Rashi Berashis 23:1</ref> Sarah was 100 years old but like 20 years old regarding sin, who is not yet liable for punishment and was like a 7 year old regarding beauty.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:1"/> She died in Chevron in the Land of Canaan which was also named Kiryas Arba - Settlement of Four after the four giants living there; Achiman, Sheshai, Talmai and their father.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2">Rashi Berashis 23:2</ref> It also alluded to the future destiny of the city which would have four holy couples buried there; Adom and Chava, Avrahom and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/><br />
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==The Burial==<br />
Avrahom came from Beer Sheva<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:2"/> to eulogize Sarah and to mourn her.<br />
Avrahom arose from before his dead, and spoke to the men of Ches. He mentioned how he was a stranger from another land but had settled among them<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/> as an inhabitant of the land. He requested a piece of land<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4">Rashi Berashis 23:4</ref> by them to use as a burial plot, where he could bury his dead from before him. If they were willing to sell it to him, Avrahom would buy it like a stranger but if not he would take it legally as an inhabitant since Hashem had already promised<ref>Berashis 12:7</ref> to give his descendants the Land.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:4"/><br />
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The Sons of Ches answered Avraham calling him a prince of G-D who dwells in their midst and telling him that he could bury his dead in the choicest of their graves. None of them would withhold<ref>Rashi Berashis 23:6</ref> their graves from Avrahom burying his dead. Avraham arose and bowed to the Sons of Ches, the people of the land. He answered them that if it was their will<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8">Rashi Berashis 23:8</ref> to allow him to bury Sarah they should listen to him and request<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:8"/> from Ephron ben Tzochar that he may give him the Machpelah double cave, that belongs to him which is found at the end of his field. He should give it to Avraham at its full priced value<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> as a burial property in their midst. It was called the Mearos Hamachpela since it was a two story cave<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9">Rashi Berashis 23:9</ref> and because it contained buried couples;<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/> currently Adom and Chava and later Avraham and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, Yackov and Leah. Avraham wished to pay the full price of the land so later the sale could not be contested. Similarly King Dovid purchased the land of the Beis Hamikdash from Araunah at its full value.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:9"/><br />
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Ephron was sitting amongst the people of Ches since he had been appointed as an officer over them that very day and had been raised to greatness due to the importance of Avraham who needed him.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10">Rashi Berashis 23:10</ref> Ephron the Chiti answered Avraham announcing to all the people of Ches who had left their work<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> and came to the city gate, to pay respect to Sarah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:10"/> Avraham should listen to him and not purchase it with money,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11">Rashi Berashis 23:11</ref> rather Ephron is giving him the field and the cave that is in it for free in front of his people, and it is as if he has already given it to him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:11"/> to bury his dead. Avraham bowed before the people of the land.<br />
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Avraham replied to Ephron allowing the people of the land to hear, that he is not interested in accepting his offer of giving the field for free.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13">Rashi Berashis 23:13</ref> Rather if Ephron would only<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> listen to him and accept the money that he had prepared<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> and wished he had already given him<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:13"/> for the field, then he will then bury his dead there.<br />
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Ephron replied to Avraham, telling him that a piece of land that is worth only four hundred shekels of silver, what is its importance between two friends like them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15">Rashi Berashis 23:15</ref> It is not important so let him leave the sale<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:15"/> and bury his dead. Avraham listened to Ephron and weighed out to him the 400 shekels of silver that were acceptable by all merchants, which Ephron had requested in front of the people of Ches. Ephron had promised a lot but did not nothing,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16">Rashi Berashis 23:16</ref> originally he declared that he wanted to give the cave as a gift but in the not only did he take the full payment, he took it in extra large Kentrin shekels, each worth 100 coins, that were acceptable everywhere, even in locations that used large shekels.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/> Due to this Ephron had the letter Vav subsequently removed from his name in the Torah.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 23:16"/><br />
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<div>* Chumash <br />
** First run on Chumash until 6:16 --[[User:Dun|Dun]] 14:56, 2 November 2019 (MST)<br />
** First run on Chumash until 7:16 --[[User:Dun|Dun]] 06:28, 23 October 2020 (MST)<br />
** First run on Chumash until 8:1 --[[User:Dun|Dun]] 14:40, 9 October 2021 (MST)<br />
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* Rashi <br />
** First run on Rashi until 6:16 --[[User:Dun|Dun]] 14:56, 2 November 2019 (MST)<br />
** First run on Rashi until 7:16 --[[User:Dun|Dun]] 06:28, 23 October 2020 (MST)<br />
** First run on Rashi until 8:1 --[[User:Dun|Dun]] 14:40, 9 October 2021 (MST)<br />
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==To Do==<br />
Explain Machloket Rashi Tzadik Bidorasov<br />
Machlokes Rebbe Eliezer and Rebbe Yehoshua about the dates.</div>Dunhttp://zissil.com/topics/Parashat-NoachParashat-Noach2021-10-09T21:35:30Z<p>Dun: /* Destruction of Life */</p>
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<div>Parashat Noach<br />
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==Noach's Ark==<br />
===Noach's Family===<br />
Noach was a righteous man, with good deeds,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9">Rashi Berashis 6:9</ref> the main generations of the righteous.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> He was perfect in his generations who walked in the ways of Hashem who encouraged him, unlike Avraham who would strengthened himself in his righteousness.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> If Noach would have lived in the Generation of Avraham in some ways<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach">Shover Zadim Parshas Noach</ref> he would have been more righteous<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> but in other ways<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> he would not have been considered of any importance.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> He was righteous in compression of the 20 from Adom to Avraham but once Avraham appeared Noach was no longer considered righteous.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> <br />
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Noach had three sons; Shem, Cham, and Yafes. Noach's family was listed to indicate that now all the earlier generations were irrelevant.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1">Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1</ref> Nach witnesed the world in three states: Preflood, Flood and Postflood<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1">Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1</ref> and Elifaz Hatimni, Beldad HaShuchi and Tzofer Hanamasi.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> THe name Noach denotes pleasantness, since Noach was pleasant to Hashem, People, Upper Realms, Lower Realms, In This World and in the Next World.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> Noach was very wise.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/><br />
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===World's Perversion===<br />
The world became corrupted with immorality<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11">Rashi Berashis 6:11</ref> idolatry<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11"/> and full of robbery.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11"/> These were all caused by their opposition to the Tzadikim of their generation; Mesushelach and Noach,<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5">Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5</ref> and not receiving their oral teaching of Holiness<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5"/> leading them to twist all the teachings.<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5"/> Hashem saw the corruption and how all creatures including cattle, beasts and birds had corrupted their ways by mating with members of other species.<ref>Rashi Berashis 6:12</ref><br />
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Hashem told Noach that he plans on destroying all life on the world due to their immorality and idolatry which brings death to the world, killing both good and bad.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13">Rashi Berashis 6:13</ref> Despite this their final verdict was sealed only because of mass robbery.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13"/> Even the earth would be destroyed, blotted out and obliterated to the depth of a plowshare, 3 Tefachim,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13"/> roughly a foot (27 cm).<br />
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===Instruction of Ark===<br />
Hashem told Noach to make for himself an ark of gopher wood, which sounds like gophris - sulphur which they were decreed to be destroyed with.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> He should make the ark with compartments which would serve as dwelling places for the domestic animals and wild beasts.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> He was to caulk it both inside and outside with pitch, due to the strength of the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> Moshe's ark which was in calm waters was coated with clay inside and pitch only on the outside.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> Also so the righteous Moshe should not smell the bad odor of pitch.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> <br />
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Noach was to size it: 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high. He was to make a window<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16">Rashi Berashis 6:16</ref> which would server as a skylight for the ark as well as a<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> precious stone, which would generate light.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> <br />
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Its roof should slant upwards narrowing to the width of one cubit which was flat and was not pointed to the end,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> so the waters should run down.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> It should have a door on its side, so that the rain should not enter it. It would have three stories one above the other,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> a bottom for garbage, second story for animal dwelling, and an upper third story for the people.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/><br />
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Although Hashem had many ways to save Noach, he did so through the ark, giving his generation a chance to repent as they inquired about Noach working on it for 120 years and replied that Hashem planed on bringing a flood to the world.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14">Rashi Berashis 6:14</ref><br />
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===Flood Warning===<br />
Hashem announced that He is bringing a flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which there is the spirit of life, from beneath the heavens. Hashem was now ready to agree to the angels who urged Him long ago not to create man.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17">Rashi Berashis 6:17</ref> All that is upon the earth would perish. This flood would wear everything out, mix everything up and move everything from high ground to low ground and floated everything down to Bavel which is deep,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17"/> it was therefore called a בלה, בלבל, הוביל - מבול.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17"/><br />
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Hashem will uphold His covenant with Noach that the fruits will not rot and become moldy<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18">Rashi Berashis 6:18</ref> and that he should not be killed by the wicked of his generation.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18"/> Noach is to enter the ark with his sons, wife and daughter-in-laws, they are prohibited to have marital relations.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18"/><br />
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Noach is to bring with him into the ark at least<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19">Rashi Berashis 6:19</ref> two of each living thing, of all flesh, to preserve their life. These should include one male and one female.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19"/> This included even demons.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19"/> Two from each kind of bird, animal and ground creeper, that did not have relations with other species and corrupts their way,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20">Rashi Berashis 6:20</ref> will come on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20"/> to Noach so he could preserve their life. Those that whom the ark let them enter<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20"/> and did not reject, were to be saved.<br />
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Noach is to take for himself and gather every food that is eaten and it should be for him and them to eat. Noach did according to all that Hashem had commanded him, specifically the building of the ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 6:22</ref><br />
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===Entering Ark Command===<br />
Hashem told Noach to enter the ark along with his household for he has found him a righteous man in his generation. This praise was in front of Noach, therefore Hashem did not call him a 'perfectly righteous man' since we tell only partial praise in a person’s presence and all of it in his absence. <ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:1">Rashi Berashis 7:1</ref><br />
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From all the clean animals Noach should take seven pairs of husband and wife. From the animals that are not clean, Noach should only take two, a single husband and wife. Since Noach studied Torah he knew which animals were going to distained to be pure for the Jewish Nation.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:2">Rashi Berashis 7:2</ref> More kosher animal were taken, so Noach could offer sacrifices from them upon leaving the ark.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:2"/> Also, from the clean<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:3">Rashi Berashis 7:3</ref> birds of the skies, Noach was to take seven pairs, male and female, to keep their seed alive on the face of the earth.<br />
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Hashem declared that in another seven days, He will make it rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights, and He will blot out all beings that He created off the face of the earth. Hashem took into consideration the honor of the tzadik Mesushelach who had passed away when Noach turned 600 and delayed the retribution for an additional<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> seven days of his mourning,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4">Rashi Berashis 7:4</ref> above the originally decreed 120 year period.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> A flood of 40 days was decreed upon them, corresponding to the 40 days it takes to form a fetus, as retribution for burdening their Creator to to form illegitimate children.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> <br />
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Noach did all that Hashem commanded him and entered the Ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 7:5</ref><br />
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===Entering the Ark===<br />
Noach was 600 years old when the when the waters flooded the earth. Noach, his 3 sons, his wife and 3 daughter-in-laws entered the ark because of the waters of the flood. The men entered separately from the women to symbolize that it they were prohibited to have martital relations while the world what suffering.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:7">Rashi Berashis 7:7</ref> Noach had little faith and was not fully certain the flood would take place, he therefore did not enter the ark until he was forced to by the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:7"/> Sets of two, male and female from the clean animals, unclean animals, birds and land creeps arrived on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:9">Rashi Berashis 7:9</ref> to Noach and the ark, just like Hashem commanded. At least one set of two arrived from each species.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:9"/><br />
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The people of his generation threatened to kill Noach and break the ark, if they see him entering it. Hashem announced that he would bring Noach into the ark before their eyes and they would see whose plan prevailed.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:13">Rashi Berashis 7:13</ref> Therefore Noach entered the ark in middle of the day with his sons; Shem, Cham and Yefes, along with his wife and the daughter in laws. They were accompanied by every type of beast, domestic animal, land creeper, birds and flying creatures with appearance of feathers,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:14"/> including locusts. <ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:14">Rashi Berashis 7:14</ref> All flesh that contained spirit of life, came in sets of two, male and female to Noach and the ark, as Hashem had commanded him. Hashem then shut him in the ark, sealing it from water<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:16"/> and protecting him from the masses who wanted to break the ark by surrounding it with bear and lions who would kill them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:16">Rashi Berashis 7:16</ref><br />
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==The Flood==<br />
After the seven day extension, on the 600th year of Noach's life, on the 17th of the second month of the year (Which was either Cheshvon or Iyar),<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11">Rashi Berashis 7:11</ref> all the springs of the great depths ruptured to emit their waters<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11"/> and the portals of the sky opened bringing the flood waters upon the earth. Sine that generation had sinned with 'great' evil they were now punished measure for measure with the waters of the 'great' depths.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11"/><br />
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Hashem began the flood with mercy bringdown light rains that would have concluded as rains of blessing had they repented. When they did not, it turned into a flood.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12">Rashi Berashis 7:12</ref> There was rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights, lasting until the 28th of Kislev<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/> (12 Cheshvon + 28 Kislev).<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/> In truth, it rained for 41 days but the first was not counted since it did not rain during its proceeding night.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/><br />
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When the forty days of flood upon the earth began, the waters increased and lifted the ark, and raising it off the earth. Like all loaded ships, the bottom of the ark remained submerged 11 cubits in the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:17">Rashi Berashis 7:17</ref> The waters became powerful, greatly increased on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:18">Rashi Berashis 7:18</ref> upon the earth, the ark moving above the waters. When the waters became exceedingly powerful upon the earth, all the tall mountains found under the heavens, became covered by water. The mountains were covered by an additional 15 cubits of water above their highest peaks.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:20">Rashi Berashis 7:20</ref><br />
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===Destruction of Life===<br />
All flesh perished that moved upon the earth, including all birds, cattle, beasts, creeping creatures that creep upon the earth and all humans. Everything that breathed the spirit of life in its nostrils,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:22">Rashi Berashis 7:22</ref> that were on dry land died. However the fish that were in the ocean did not die.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:22"/><br />
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The bulk<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> residue from the living and vegetation matter were dragged by the Flood waters to the Bavel area, where it settled.<ref name="Medrash Rabba Icha 23">Medrash Rabba Icha 23</ref> This area at the time<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> was the lowest region on Earth.<ref name="Medrash Rabba Icha 23"/> Even after the land level elevated over time and from the Flood residue, this area which in modern times contains Iraq, Kuwait and possibly Eastern Saudi Arabia and UAE, remains only 0 - 150 Meters above sea level.<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> Ironically this same region is a mass source of petroleum crude oil and other fossil fuels, which scientists claim are formed when large quantities of dead organisms are buried underneath sedimentary rock and are subjected to both intense heat and pressure, which were the exact effects of the Flood.<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/><br />
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The Flood<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23">Rashi Berashis 7:23</ref> obliterated all beings that were upon the face of the earth, including man, animal, birds of the skys and creeping things. They were obliterated from the earth. Only Noach and those with him in the ark survived. Although Noach survived, it was rough experience for him as well. He was groaning and spitting blood because of the burden taking care of the cattle and beasts.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/> He was also wounded after the lion struck him when he delayed feeding it.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/> This was to eradicate any misdoings of Noach while still in This World, so he would not be punished in the next.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/><br />
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==Ending of Flood==<br />
The water prevailed upon the earth for one hundred and fifty days. Hashem remembered Noach and all the beasts and cattle that were with him in the ark. This was due to the prayers of Noach and his sons that transformed the Divine attribute of Justice into the attribute of mercy.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 8:1">Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> Hashem also remembered the merits of the animals, that they did not corrupt their ways before the flood and that they did not have marital relationships in ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> Hashem passed a spirit of consolation and calm before Him<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> regarding the events<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> of the earth, calming the anger<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> and the waters subsided.<br />
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===Rainbows===<br />
Rainbows are caused by light refracting and dispersing through airborne droplets of water. Before the Flood, the atmosphere air was extremely clean and refined and water droplets would not hang in it. Only after the Flood whose waters contaminated the world with an influx of sulphur and scorched all living and vegetation matter, which were then absorbed by the earth, did the atmosphere become polluted. This caused the air and clouds to thicken and only then did water drops start clinging in it, causing the rainbow effect.<ref>Shover Zadim Noach based on Tiferes Yonason Berashis 9:12</ref><br />
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===Permitting of Meat===<br />
They were now permitted to eat animal meat which had not been allowed until then, just like they had been permitted to eat vegetation at the time of Adom.<ref>Rashi Berashis 30</ref><br />
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===Genealogy of Shem===<br />
The descendants of Shem are listed to indicate that now the families of Yefes and Cham were considered irrelevant.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/><br />
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==References==<br />
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<div>Parashat Noach<br />
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==Noach's Ark==<br />
===Noach's Family===<br />
Noach was a righteous man, with good deeds,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9">Rashi Berashis 6:9</ref> the main generations of the righteous.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> He was perfect in his generations who walked in the ways of Hashem who encouraged him, unlike Avraham who would strengthened himself in his righteousness.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> If Noach would have lived in the Generation of Avraham in some ways<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach">Shover Zadim Parshas Noach</ref> he would have been more righteous<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> but in other ways<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> he would not have been considered of any importance.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> He was righteous in compression of the 20 from Adom to Avraham but once Avraham appeared Noach was no longer considered righteous.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> <br />
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Noach had three sons; Shem, Cham, and Yafes. Noach's family was listed to indicate that now all the earlier generations were irrelevant.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1">Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1</ref> Nach witnesed the world in three states: Preflood, Flood and Postflood<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1">Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1</ref> and Elifaz Hatimni, Beldad HaShuchi and Tzofer Hanamasi.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> THe name Noach denotes pleasantness, since Noach was pleasant to Hashem, People, Upper Realms, Lower Realms, In This World and in the Next World.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> Noach was very wise.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/><br />
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===World's Perversion===<br />
The world became corrupted with immorality<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11">Rashi Berashis 6:11</ref> idolatry<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11"/> and full of robbery.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11"/> These were all caused by their opposition to the Tzadikim of their generation; Mesushelach and Noach,<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5">Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5</ref> and not receiving their oral teaching of Holiness<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5"/> leading them to twist all the teachings.<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5"/> Hashem saw the corruption and how all creatures including cattle, beasts and birds had corrupted their ways by mating with members of other species.<ref>Rashi Berashis 6:12</ref><br />
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Hashem told Noach that he plans on destroying all life on the world due to their immorality and idolatry which brings death to the world, killing both good and bad.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13">Rashi Berashis 6:13</ref> Despite this their final verdict was sealed only because of mass robbery.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13"/> Even the earth would be destroyed, blotted out and obliterated to the depth of a plowshare, 3 Tefachim,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13"/> roughly a foot (27 cm).<br />
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===Instruction of Ark===<br />
Hashem told Noach to make for himself an ark of gopher wood, which sounds like gophris - sulphur which they were decreed to be destroyed with.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> He should make the ark with compartments which would serve as dwelling places for the domestic animals and wild beasts.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> He was to caulk it both inside and outside with pitch, due to the strength of the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> Moshe's ark which was in calm waters was coated with clay inside and pitch only on the outside.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> Also so the righteous Moshe should not smell the bad odor of pitch.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> <br />
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Noach was to size it: 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high. He was to make a window<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16">Rashi Berashis 6:16</ref> which would server as a skylight for the ark as well as a<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> precious stone, which would generate light.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> <br />
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Its roof should slant upwards narrowing to the width of one cubit which was flat and was not pointed to the end,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> so the waters should run down.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> It should have a door on its side, so that the rain should not enter it. It would have three stories one above the other,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> a bottom for garbage, second story for animal dwelling, and an upper third story for the people.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/><br />
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Although Hashem had many ways to save Noach, he did so through the ark, giving his generation a chance to repent as they inquired about Noach working on it for 120 years and replied that Hashem planed on bringing a flood to the world.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14">Rashi Berashis 6:14</ref><br />
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===Flood Warning===<br />
Hashem announced that He is bringing a flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which there is the spirit of life, from beneath the heavens. Hashem was now ready to agree to the angels who urged Him long ago not to create man.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17">Rashi Berashis 6:17</ref> All that is upon the earth would perish. This flood would wear everything out, mix everything up and move everything from high ground to low ground and floated everything down to Bavel which is deep,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17"/> it was therefore called a בלה, בלבל, הוביל - מבול.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17"/><br />
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Hashem will uphold His covenant with Noach that the fruits will not rot and become moldy<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18">Rashi Berashis 6:18</ref> and that he should not be killed by the wicked of his generation.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18"/> Noach is to enter the ark with his sons, wife and daughter-in-laws, they are prohibited to have marital relations.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18"/><br />
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Noach is to bring with him into the ark at least<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19">Rashi Berashis 6:19</ref> two of each living thing, of all flesh, to preserve their life. These should include one male and one female.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19"/> This included even demons.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19"/> Two from each kind of bird, animal and ground creeper, that did not have relations with other species and corrupts their way,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20">Rashi Berashis 6:20</ref> will come on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20"/> to Noach so he could preserve their life. Those that whom the ark let them enter<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20"/> and did not reject, were to be saved.<br />
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Noach is to take for himself and gather every food that is eaten and it should be for him and them to eat. Noach did according to all that Hashem had commanded him, specifically the building of the ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 6:22</ref><br />
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===Entering Ark Command===<br />
Hashem told Noach to enter the ark along with his household for he has found him a righteous man in his generation. This praise was in front of Noach, therefore Hashem did not call him a 'perfectly righteous man' since we tell only partial praise in a person’s presence and all of it in his absence. <ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:1">Rashi Berashis 7:1</ref><br />
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From all the clean animals Noach should take seven pairs of husband and wife. From the animals that are not clean, Noach should only take two, a single husband and wife. Since Noach studied Torah he knew which animals were going to distained to be pure for the Jewish Nation.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:2">Rashi Berashis 7:2</ref> More kosher animal were taken, so Noach could offer sacrifices from them upon leaving the ark.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:2"/> Also, from the clean<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:3">Rashi Berashis 7:3</ref> birds of the skies, Noach was to take seven pairs, male and female, to keep their seed alive on the face of the earth.<br />
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Hashem declared that in another seven days, He will make it rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights, and He will blot out all beings that He created off the face of the earth. Hashem took into consideration the honor of the tzadik Mesushelach who had passed away when Noach turned 600 and delayed the retribution for an additional<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> seven days of his mourning,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4">Rashi Berashis 7:4</ref> above the originally decreed 120 year period.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> A flood of 40 days was decreed upon them, corresponding to the 40 days it takes to form a fetus, as retribution for burdening their Creator to to form illegitimate children.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> <br />
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Noach did all that Hashem commanded him and entered the Ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 7:5</ref><br />
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===Entering the Ark===<br />
Noach was 600 years old when the when the waters flooded the earth. Noach, his 3 sons, his wife and 3 daughter-in-laws entered the ark because of the waters of the flood. The men entered separately from the women to symbolize that it they were prohibited to have martital relations while the world what suffering.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:7">Rashi Berashis 7:7</ref> Noach had little faith and was not fully certain the flood would take place, he therefore did not enter the ark until he was forced to by the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:7"/> Sets of two, male and female from the clean animals, unclean animals, birds and land creeps arrived on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:9">Rashi Berashis 7:9</ref> to Noach and the ark, just like Hashem commanded. At least one set of two arrived from each species.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:9"/><br />
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The people of his generation threatened to kill Noach and break the ark, if they see him entering it. Hashem announced that he would bring Noach into the ark before their eyes and they would see whose plan prevailed.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:13">Rashi Berashis 7:13</ref> Therefore Noach entered the ark in middle of the day with his sons; Shem, Cham and Yefes, along with his wife and the daughter in laws. They were accompanied by every type of beast, domestic animal, land creeper, birds and flying creatures with appearance of feathers,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:14"/> including locusts. <ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:14">Rashi Berashis 7:14</ref> All flesh that contained spirit of life, came in sets of two, male and female to Noach and the ark, as Hashem had commanded him. Hashem then shut him in the ark, sealing it from water<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:16"/> and protecting him from the masses who wanted to break the ark by surrounding it with bear and lions who would kill them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:16">Rashi Berashis 7:16</ref><br />
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==The Flood==<br />
After the seven day extension, on the 600th year of Noach's life, on the 17th of the second month of the year (Which was either Cheshvon or Iyar),<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11">Rashi Berashis 7:11</ref> all the springs of the great depths ruptured to emit their waters<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11"/> and the portals of the sky opened bringing the flood waters upon the earth. Sine that generation had sinned with 'great' evil they were now punished measure for measure with the waters of the 'great' depths.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11"/><br />
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Hashem began the flood with mercy bringdown light rains that would have concluded as rains of blessing had they repented. When they did not, it turned into a flood.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12">Rashi Berashis 7:12</ref> There was rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights, lasting until the 28th of Kislev<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/> (12 Cheshvon + 28 Kislev).<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/> In truth, it rained for 41 days but the first was not counted since it did not rain during its proceeding night.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/><br />
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When the forty days of flood upon the earth began, the waters increased and lifted the ark, and raising it off the earth. Like all loaded ships, the bottom of the ark remained submerged 11 cubits in the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:17">Rashi Berashis 7:17</ref> The waters became powerful, greatly increased on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:18">Rashi Berashis 7:18</ref> upon the earth, the ark moving above the waters. When the waters became exceedingly powerful upon the earth, all the tall mountains found under the heavens, became covered by water. The mountains were covered by an additional 15 cubits of water above their highest peaks.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:20">Rashi Berashis 7:20</ref><br />
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===Destruction of Life===<br />
All flesh perished that moved upon the earth, including all birds, cattle, beasts, creeping creatures that creep upon the earth and all humans. Everything that breathed the spirit of life in its nostrils,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:22">Rashi Berashis 7:22</ref> that were on dry land died. However the fish that were in the ocean did not die.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:22"/><br />
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The bulk<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> residue from the living and vegetation matter were dragged by the Flood waters to the Bavel area, where it settled.<ref name="Medrash Rabba Icha 23">Medrash Rabba Icha 23</ref> This area at the time<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> was the lowest region on Earth.<ref name="Medrash Rabba Icha 23"/> Even after the land level elevated over time and from the Flood residue, this area which in modern times contains Iraq, Kuwait and possibly Eastern Saudi Arabia and UAE, remains only 0 - 150 Meters above sea level.<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> Ironically this same region is a mass source of petroleum crude oil and other fossil fuels, which scientists claim are formed when large quantities of dead organisms are buried underneath sedimentary rock and are subjected to both intense heat and pressure, which were consequences of the Flood.<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/><br />
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The Flood<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23">Rashi Berashis 7:23</ref> obliterated all beings that were upon the face of the earth, including man, animal, birds of the skys and creeping things. They were obliterated from the earth. Only Noach and those with him in the ark survived. Although Noach survived, it was rough experience for him as well. He was groaning and spitting blood because of the burden taking care of the cattle and beasts.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/> He was also wounded after the lion struck him when he delayed feeding it.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/> This was to eradicate any misdoings of Noach while still in This World, so he would not be punished in the next.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/><br />
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==Ending of Flood==<br />
The water prevailed upon the earth for one hundred and fifty days. Hashem remembered Noach and all the beasts and cattle that were with him in the ark. This was due to the prayers of Noach and his sons that transformed the Divine attribute of Justice into the attribute of mercy.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 8:1">Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> Hashem also remembered the merits of the animals, that they did not corrupt their ways before the flood and that they did not have marital relationships in ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> Hashem passed a spirit of consolation and calm before Him<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> regarding the events<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> of the earth, calming the anger<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> and the waters subsided.<br />
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===Rainbows===<br />
Rainbows are caused by light refracting and dispersing through airborne droplets of water. Before the Flood, the atmosphere air was extremely clean and refined and water droplets would not hang in it. Only after the Flood whose waters contaminated the world with an influx of sulphur and scorched all living and vegetation matter, which were then absorbed by the earth, did the atmosphere become polluted. This caused the air and clouds to thicken and only then did water drops start clinging in it, causing the rainbow effect.<ref>Shover Zadim Noach based on Tiferes Yonason Berashis 9:12</ref><br />
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===Permitting of Meat===<br />
They were now permitted to eat animal meat which had not been allowed until then, just like they had been permitted to eat vegetation at the time of Adom.<ref>Rashi Berashis 30</ref><br />
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===Genealogy of Shem===<br />
The descendants of Shem are listed to indicate that now the families of Yefes and Cham were considered irrelevant.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/><br />
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==References==<br />
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<div>Parashat Noach<br />
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==Noach's Ark==<br />
===Noach's Family===<br />
Noach was a righteous man, with good deeds,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9">Rashi Berashis 6:9</ref> the main generations of the righteous.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> He was perfect in his generations who walked in the ways of Hashem who encouraged him, unlike Avraham who would strengthened himself in his righteousness.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> If Noach would have lived in the Generation of Avraham in some ways<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach">Shover Zadim Parshas Noach</ref> he would have been more righteous<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> but in other ways<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> he would not have been considered of any importance.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> He was righteous in compression of the 20 from Adom to Avraham but once Avraham appeared Noach was no longer considered righteous.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> <br />
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Noach had three sons; Shem, Cham, and Yafes. Noach's family was listed to indicate that now all the earlier generations were irrelevant.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1">Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1</ref> Nach witnesed the world in three states: Preflood, Flood and Postflood<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1">Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1</ref> and Elifaz Hatimni, Beldad HaShuchi and Tzofer Hanamasi.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> THe name Noach denotes pleasantness, since Noach was pleasant to Hashem, People, Upper Realms, Lower Realms, In This World and in the Next World.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> Noach was very wise.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/><br />
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===World's Perversion===<br />
The world became corrupted with immorality<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11">Rashi Berashis 6:11</ref> idolatry<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11"/> and full of robbery.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11"/> These were all caused by their opposition to the Tzadikim of their generation; Mesushelach and Noach,<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5">Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5</ref> and not receiving their oral teaching of Holiness<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5"/> leading them to twist all the teachings.<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5"/> Hashem saw the corruption and how all creatures including cattle, beasts and birds had corrupted their ways by mating with members of other species.<ref>Rashi Berashis 6:12</ref><br />
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Hashem told Noach that he plans on destroying all life on the world due to their immorality and idolatry which brings death to the world, killing both good and bad.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13">Rashi Berashis 6:13</ref> Despite this their final verdict was sealed only because of mass robbery.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13"/> Even the earth would be destroyed, blotted out and obliterated to the depth of a plowshare, 3 Tefachim,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13"/> roughly a foot (27 cm).<br />
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===Instruction of Ark===<br />
Hashem told Noach to make for himself an ark of gopher wood, which sounds like gophris - sulphur which they were decreed to be destroyed with.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> He should make the ark with compartments which would serve as dwelling places for the domestic animals and wild beasts.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> He was to caulk it both inside and outside with pitch, due to the strength of the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> Moshe's ark which was in calm waters was coated with clay inside and pitch only on the outside.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> Also so the righteous Moshe should not smell the bad odor of pitch.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> <br />
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Noach was to size it: 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high. He was to make a window<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16">Rashi Berashis 6:16</ref> which would server as a skylight for the ark as well as a<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> precious stone, which would generate light.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> <br />
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Its roof should slant upwards narrowing to the width of one cubit which was flat and was not pointed to the end,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> so the waters should run down.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> It should have a door on its side, so that the rain should not enter it. It would have three stories one above the other,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> a bottom for garbage, second story for animal dwelling, and an upper third story for the people.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/><br />
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Although Hashem had many ways to save Noach, he did so through the ark, giving his generation a chance to repent as they inquired about Noach working on it for 120 years and replied that Hashem planed on bringing a flood to the world.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14">Rashi Berashis 6:14</ref><br />
<br />
===Flood Warning===<br />
Hashem announced that He is bringing a flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which there is the spirit of life, from beneath the heavens. Hashem was now ready to agree to the angels who urged Him long ago not to create man.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17">Rashi Berashis 6:17</ref> All that is upon the earth would perish. This flood would wear everything out, mix everything up and move everything from high ground to low ground and floated everything down to Bavel which is deep,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17"/> it was therefore called a בלה, בלבל, הוביל - מבול.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17"/><br />
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Hashem will uphold His covenant with Noach that the fruits will not rot and become moldy<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18">Rashi Berashis 6:18</ref> and that he should not be killed by the wicked of his generation.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18"/> Noach is to enter the ark with his sons, wife and daughter-in-laws, they are prohibited to have marital relations.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18"/><br />
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Noach is to bring with him into the ark at least<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19">Rashi Berashis 6:19</ref> two of each living thing, of all flesh, to preserve their life. These should include one male and one female.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19"/> This included even demons.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19"/> Two from each kind of bird, animal and ground creeper, that did not have relations with other species and corrupts their way,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20">Rashi Berashis 6:20</ref> will come on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20"/> to Noach so he could preserve their life. Those that whom the ark let them enter<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20"/> and did not reject, were to be saved.<br />
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Noach is to take for himself and gather every food that is eaten and it should be for him and them to eat. Noach did according to all that Hashem had commanded him, specifically the building of the ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 6:22</ref><br />
<br />
===Entering Ark Command===<br />
Hashem told Noach to enter the ark along with his household for he has found him a righteous man in his generation. This praise was in front of Noach, therefore Hashem did not call him a 'perfectly righteous man' since we tell only partial praise in a person’s presence and all of it in his absence. <ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:1">Rashi Berashis 7:1</ref><br />
<br />
From all the clean animals Noach should take seven pairs of husband and wife. From the animals that are not clean, Noach should only take two, a single husband and wife. Since Noach studied Torah he knew which animals were going to distained to be pure for the Jewish Nation.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:2">Rashi Berashis 7:2</ref> More kosher animal were taken, so Noach could offer sacrifices from them upon leaving the ark.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:2"/> Also, from the clean<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:3">Rashi Berashis 7:3</ref> birds of the skies, Noach was to take seven pairs, male and female, to keep their seed alive on the face of the earth.<br />
<br />
Hashem declared that in another seven days, He will make it rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights, and He will blot out all beings that He created off the face of the earth. Hashem took into consideration the honor of the tzadik Mesushelach who had passed away when Noach turned 600 and delayed the retribution for an additional<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> seven days of his mourning,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4">Rashi Berashis 7:4</ref> above the originally decreed 120 year period.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> A flood of 40 days was decreed upon them, corresponding to the 40 days it takes to form a fetus, as retribution for burdening their Creator to to form illegitimate children.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> <br />
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Noach did all that Hashem commanded him and entered the Ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 7:5</ref><br />
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===Entering the Ark===<br />
Noach was 600 years old when the when the waters flooded the earth. Noach, his 3 sons, his wife and 3 daughter-in-laws entered the ark because of the waters of the flood. The men entered separately from the women to symbolize that it they were prohibited to have martital relations while the world what suffering.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:7">Rashi Berashis 7:7</ref> Noach had little faith and was not fully certain the flood would take place, he therefore did not enter the ark until he was forced to by the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:7"/> Sets of two, male and female from the clean animals, unclean animals, birds and land creeps arrived on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:9">Rashi Berashis 7:9</ref> to Noach and the ark, just like Hashem commanded. At least one set of two arrived from each species.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:9"/><br />
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The people of his generation threatened to kill Noach and break the ark, if they see him entering it. Hashem announced that he would bring Noach into the ark before their eyes and they would see whose plan prevailed.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:13">Rashi Berashis 7:13</ref> Therefore Noach entered the ark in middle of the day with his sons; Shem, Cham and Yefes, along with his wife and the daughter in laws. They were accompanied by every type of beast, domestic animal, land creeper, birds and flying creatures with appearance of feathers,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:14"/> including locusts. <ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:14">Rashi Berashis 7:14</ref> All flesh that contained spirit of life, came in sets of two, male and female to Noach and the ark, as Hashem had commanded him. Hashem then shut him in the ark, sealing it from water<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:16"/> and protecting him from the masses who wanted to break the ark by surrounding it with bear and lions who would kill them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:16">Rashi Berashis 7:16</ref><br />
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==The Flood==<br />
After the seven day extension, on the 600th year of Noach's life, on the 17th of the second month of the year (Which was either Cheshvon or Iyar),<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11">Rashi Berashis 7:11</ref> all the springs of the great depths ruptured to emit their waters<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11"/> and the portals of the sky opened bringing the flood waters upon the earth. Sine that generation had sinned with 'great' evil they were now punished measure for measure with the waters of the 'great' depths.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11"/><br />
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Hashem began the flood with mercy bringdown light rains that would have concluded as rains of blessing had they repented. When they did not, it turned into a flood.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12">Rashi Berashis 7:12</ref> There was rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights, lasting until the 28th of Kislev<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/> (12 Cheshvon + 28 Kislev).<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/> In truth, it rained for 41 days but the first was not counted since it did not rain during its proceeding night.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/><br />
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When the forty days of flood upon the earth began, the waters increased and lifted the ark, and raising it off the earth. Like all loaded ships, the bottom of the ark remained submerged 11 cubits in the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:17">Rashi Berashis 7:17</ref> The waters became powerful, greatly increased on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:18">Rashi Berashis 7:18</ref> upon the earth, the ark moving above the waters. When the waters became exceedingly powerful upon the earth, all the tall mountains found under the heavens, became covered by water. The mountains were covered by an additional 15 cubits of water above their highest peaks.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:20">Rashi Berashis 7:20</ref><br />
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===Destruction of Life===<br />
All flesh perished that moved upon the earth, including all birds, cattle, beasts, creeping creatures that creep upon the earth and all humans. Everything that breathed the spirit of life in its nostrils,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:22">Rashi Berashis 7:22</ref> that were on dry land died. However the fish that were in the ocean did not die.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:22"/><br />
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The bulk<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> residue from the living and vegetation matter were dragged by the Flood waters to the Bavel area, where it settled.<ref name="Medrash Rabba Icha 23">Medrash Rabba Icha 23</ref> This area at the time<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> was the lowest region on Earth.<ref name="Medrash Rabba Icha 23"/> Even after the land level elevated over time and from the Flood residue, this area which in modern times contains Iraq, Kuwait and possibly Eastern Saudi Arabia and UAE, remains only 0 - 150 Meters above sea level.<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> Ironically this same region is a mass source of petroleum crude oil and other fossil fuels, which scientists claim are formed when large quantities of dead organisms are buried underneath sedimentary rock and subjected to both intense heat and pressure, which were consequences of the Flood.<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/><br />
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The Flood<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23">Rashi Berashis 7:23</ref> obliterated all beings that were upon the face of the earth, including man, animal, birds of the skys and creeping things. They were obliterated from the earth. Only Noach and those with him in the ark survived. Although Noach survived, it was rough experience for him as well. He was groaning and spitting blood because of the burden taking care of the cattle and beasts.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/> He was also wounded after the lion struck him when he delayed feeding it.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/> This was to eradicate any misdoings of Noach while still in This World, so he would not be punished in the next.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/><br />
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==Ending of Flood==<br />
The water prevailed upon the earth for one hundred and fifty days. Hashem remembered Noach and all the beasts and cattle that were with him in the ark. This was due to the prayers of Noach and his sons that transformed the Divine attribute of Justice into the attribute of mercy.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 8:1">Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> Hashem also remembered the merits of the animals, that they did not corrupt their ways before the flood and that they did not have marital relationships in ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> Hashem passed a spirit of consolation and calm before Him<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> regarding the events<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> of the earth, calming the anger<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> and the waters subsided.<br />
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===Rainbows===<br />
Rainbows are caused by light refracting and dispersing through airborne droplets of water. Before the Flood, the atmosphere air was extremely clean and refined and water droplets would not hang in it. Only after the Flood whose waters contaminated the world with an influx of sulphur and scorched all living and vegetation matter, which were then absorbed by the earth, did the atmosphere become polluted. This caused the air and clouds to thicken and only then did water drops start clinging in it, causing the rainbow effect.<ref>Shover Zadim Noach based on Tiferes Yonason Berashis 9:12</ref><br />
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===Permitting of Meat===<br />
They were now permitted to eat animal meat which had not been allowed until then, just like they had been permitted to eat vegetation at the time of Adom.<ref>Rashi Berashis 30</ref><br />
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===Genealogy of Shem===<br />
The descendants of Shem are listed to indicate that now the families of Yefes and Cham were considered irrelevant.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/><br />
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==References==<br />
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<div>Parashat Noach<br />
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==Noach's Ark==<br />
===Noach's Family===<br />
Noach was a righteous man, with good deeds,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9">Rashi Berashis 6:9</ref> the main generations of the righteous.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> He was perfect in his generations who walked in the ways of Hashem who encouraged him, unlike Avraham who would strengthened himself in his righteousness.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> If Noach would have lived in the Generation of Avraham in some ways<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach">Shover Zadim Parshas Noach</ref> he would have been more righteous<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> but in other ways<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> he would not have been considered of any importance.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> He was righteous in compression of the 20 from Adom to Avraham but once Avraham appeared Noach was no longer considered righteous.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> <br />
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Noach had three sons; Shem, Cham, and Yafes. Noach's family was listed to indicate that now all the earlier generations were irrelevant.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1">Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1</ref> Nach witnesed the world in three states: Preflood, Flood and Postflood<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1">Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1</ref> and Elifaz Hatimni, Beldad HaShuchi and Tzofer Hanamasi.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> THe name Noach denotes pleasantness, since Noach was pleasant to Hashem, People, Upper Realms, Lower Realms, In This World and in the Next World.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> Noach was very wise.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/><br />
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===World's Perversion===<br />
The world became corrupted with immorality<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11">Rashi Berashis 6:11</ref> idolatry<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11"/> and full of robbery.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11"/> These were all caused by their opposition to the Tzadikim of their generation; Mesushelach and Noach,<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5">Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5</ref> and not receiving their oral teaching of Holiness<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5"/> leading them to twist all the teachings.<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5"/> Hashem saw the corruption and how all creatures including cattle, beasts and birds had corrupted their ways by mating with members of other species.<ref>Rashi Berashis 6:12</ref><br />
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Hashem told Noach that he plans on destroying all life on the world due to their immorality and idolatry which brings death to the world, killing both good and bad.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13">Rashi Berashis 6:13</ref> Despite this their final verdict was sealed only because of mass robbery.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13"/> Even the earth would be destroyed, blotted out and obliterated to the depth of a plowshare, 3 Tefachim,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13"/> roughly a foot (27 cm).<br />
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===Instruction of Ark===<br />
Hashem told Noach to make for himself an ark of gopher wood, which sounds like gophris - sulphur which they were decreed to be destroyed with.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> He should make the ark with compartments which would serve as dwelling places for the domestic animals and wild beasts.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> He was to caulk it both inside and outside with pitch, due to the strength of the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> Moshe's ark which was in calm waters was coated with clay inside and pitch only on the outside.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> Also so the righteous Moshe should not smell the bad odor of pitch.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> <br />
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Noach was to size it: 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high. He was to make a window<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16">Rashi Berashis 6:16</ref> which would server as a skylight for the ark as well as a<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> precious stone, which would generate light.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> <br />
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Its roof should slant upwards narrowing to the width of one cubit which was flat and was not pointed to the end,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> so the waters should run down.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> It should have a door on its side, so that the rain should not enter it. It would have three stories one above the other,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> a bottom for garbage, second story for animal dwelling, and an upper third story for the people.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/><br />
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Although Hashem had many ways to save Noach, he did so through the ark, giving his generation a chance to repent as they inquired about Noach working on it for 120 years and replied that Hashem planed on bringing a flood to the world.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14">Rashi Berashis 6:14</ref><br />
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===Flood Warning===<br />
Hashem announced that He is bringing a flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which there is the spirit of life, from beneath the heavens. Hashem was now ready to agree to the angels who urged Him long ago not to create man.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17">Rashi Berashis 6:17</ref> All that is upon the earth would perish. This flood would wear everything out, mix everything up and move everything from high ground to low ground and floated everything down to Bavel which is deep,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17"/> it was therefore called a בלה, בלבל, הוביל - מבול.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17"/><br />
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Hashem will uphold His covenant with Noach that the fruits will not rot and become moldy<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18">Rashi Berashis 6:18</ref> and that he should not be killed by the wicked of his generation.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18"/> Noach is to enter the ark with his sons, wife and daughter-in-laws, they are prohibited to have marital relations.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18"/><br />
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Noach is to bring with him into the ark at least<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19">Rashi Berashis 6:19</ref> two of each living thing, of all flesh, to preserve their life. These should include one male and one female.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19"/> This included even demons.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19"/> Two from each kind of bird, animal and ground creeper, that did not have relations with other species and corrupts their way,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20">Rashi Berashis 6:20</ref> will come on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20"/> to Noach so he could preserve their life. Those that whom the ark let them enter<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20"/> and did not reject, were to be saved.<br />
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Noach is to take for himself and gather every food that is eaten and it should be for him and them to eat. Noach did according to all that Hashem had commanded him, specifically the building of the ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 6:22</ref><br />
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===Entering Ark Command===<br />
Hashem told Noach to enter the ark along with his household for he has found him a righteous man in his generation. This praise was in front of Noach, therefore Hashem did not call him a 'perfectly righteous man' since we tell only partial praise in a person’s presence and all of it in his absence. <ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:1">Rashi Berashis 7:1</ref><br />
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From all the clean animals Noach should take seven pairs of husband and wife. From the animals that are not clean, Noach should only take two, a single husband and wife. Since Noach studied Torah he knew which animals were going to distained to be pure for the Jewish Nation.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:2">Rashi Berashis 7:2</ref> More kosher animal were taken, so Noach could offer sacrifices from them upon leaving the ark.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:2"/> Also, from the clean<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:3">Rashi Berashis 7:3</ref> birds of the skies, Noach was to take seven pairs, male and female, to keep their seed alive on the face of the earth.<br />
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Hashem declared that in another seven days, He will make it rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights, and He will blot out all beings that He created off the face of the earth. Hashem took into consideration the honor of the tzadik Mesushelach who had passed away when Noach turned 600 and delayed the retribution for an additional<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> seven days of his mourning,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4">Rashi Berashis 7:4</ref> above the originally decreed 120 year period.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> A flood of 40 days was decreed upon them, corresponding to the 40 days it takes to form a fetus, as retribution for burdening their Creator to to form illegitimate children.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> <br />
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Noach did all that Hashem commanded him and entered the Ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 7:5</ref><br />
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===Entering the Ark===<br />
Noach was 600 years old when the when the waters flooded the earth. Noach, his 3 sons, his wife and 3 daughter-in-laws entered the ark because of the waters of the flood. The men entered separately from the women to symbolize that it they were prohibited to have martital relations while the world what suffering.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:7">Rashi Berashis 7:7</ref> Noach had little faith and was not fully certain the flood would take place, he therefore did not enter the ark until he was forced to by the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:7"/> Sets of two, male and female from the clean animals, unclean animals, birds and land creeps arrived on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:9">Rashi Berashis 7:9</ref> to Noach and the ark, just like Hashem commanded. At least one set of two arrived from each species.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:9"/><br />
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The people of his generation threatened to kill Noach and break the ark, if they see him entering it. Hashem announced that he would bring Noach into the ark before their eyes and they would see whose plan prevailed.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:13">Rashi Berashis 7:13</ref> Therefore Noach entered the ark in middle of the day with his sons; Shem, Cham and Yefes, along with his wife and the daughter in laws. They were accompanied by every type of beast, domestic animal, land creeper, birds and flying creatures with appearance of feathers,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:14"/> including locusts. <ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:14">Rashi Berashis 7:14</ref> All flesh that contained spirit of life, came in sets of two, male and female to Noach and the ark, as Hashem had commanded him. Hashem then shut him in the ark, sealing it from water<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:16"/> and protecting him from the masses who wanted to break the ark by surrounding it with bear and lions who would kill them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:16">Rashi Berashis 7:16</ref><br />
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==The Flood==<br />
After the seven day extension, on the 600th year of Noach's life, on the 17th of the second month of the year (Which was either Cheshvon or Iyar),<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11">Rashi Berashis 7:11</ref> all the springs of the great depths ruptured to emit their waters<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11"/> and the portals of the sky opened bringing the flood waters upon the earth. Sine that generation had sinned with 'great' evil they were now punished measure for measure with the waters of the 'great' depths.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11"/><br />
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Hashem began the flood with mercy bringdown light rains that would have concluded as rains of blessing had they repented. When they did not, it turned into a flood.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12">Rashi Berashis 7:12</ref> There was rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights, lasting until the 28th of Kislev<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/> (12 Cheshvon + 28 Kislev).<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/> In truth, it rained for 41 days but the first was not counted since it did not rain during its proceeding night.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/><br />
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When the forty days of flood upon the earth began, the waters increased and lifted the ark, and raising it off the earth. Like all loaded ships, the bottom of the ark remained submerged 11 cubits in the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:17">Rashi Berashis 7:17</ref> The waters became powerful, greatly increased on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:18">Rashi Berashis 7:18</ref> upon the earth, the ark moving above the waters. When the waters became exceedingly powerful upon the earth, all the tall mountains found under the heavens, became covered by water. The mountains were covered by an additional 15 cubits of water above their highest peaks.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:20">Rashi Berashis 7:20</ref><br />
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===Destruction of Life===<br />
All flesh perished that moved upon the earth, including all birds, cattle, beasts, creeping creatures that creep upon the earth and all humans. Everything that breathed the spirit of life in its nostrils,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:22">Rashi Berashis 7:22</ref> that were on dry land died. However the fish that were in the ocean did not die.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:22"/><br />
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The bulk<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> of residue from the living and vegetation matter were dragged by Flood waters to the Bavel area, where it settled.<ref name="Medrash Rabba Icha 23">Medrash Rabba Icha 23</ref> This area at the time<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> was the lowest region on Earth.<ref name="Medrash Rabba Icha 23"/> Even after the land level was raised over time and from all the Flood residue, this area which in modern times contains Iraq, Kuwait and possibly Eastern Saudi Arabia and UAE remains only 0 - 150 Meters above sea level.<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> Ironically this same region is a mass source of petroleum crude oil and other fossil fuels, which scientist claim are formed when large quantities of dead organisms are buried underneath sedimentary rock and subjected to both intense heat and pressure, which were consequences of the Flood.<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/><br />
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The Flood<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23">Rashi Berashis 7:23</ref> obliterated all beings that were upon the face of the earth, including man, animal, birds of the skys and creeping things. They were obliterated from the earth. Only Noach and those with him in the ark survived. Although Noach survived, it was rough experience for him as well. He was groaning and spitting blood because of the burden taking care of the cattle and beasts.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/> He was also wounded after the lion struck him when he delayed feeding it.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/> This was to eradicate any misdoings of Noach while still in This World, so he would not be punished in the next.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/><br />
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==Ending of Flood==<br />
The water prevailed upon the earth for one hundred and fifty days. Hashem remembered Noach and all the beasts and cattle that were with him in the ark. This was due to the prayers of Noach and his sons that transformed the Divine attribute of Justice into the attribute of mercy.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 8:1">Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> Hashem also remembered the merits of the animals, that they did not corrupt their ways before the flood and that they did not have marital relationships in ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> Hashem passed a spirit of consolation and calm before Him<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> regarding the events<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> of the earth, calming the anger<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> and the waters subsided.<br />
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===Rainbows===<br />
Rainbows are caused by light refracting and dispersing through airborne droplets of water. Before the Flood, the atmosphere air was extremely clean and refined and water droplets would not hang in it. Only after the Flood whose waters contaminated the world with an influx of sulphur and scorched all living and vegetation matter, which were then absorbed by the earth, did the atmosphere become polluted. This caused the air and clouds to thicken and only then did water drops start clinging in it, causing the rainbow effect.<ref>Shover Zadim Noach based on Tiferes Yonason Berashis 9:12</ref><br />
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===Permitting of Meat===<br />
They were now permitted to eat animal meat which had not been allowed until then, just like they had been permitted to eat vegetation at the time of Adom.<ref>Rashi Berashis 30</ref><br />
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===Genealogy of Shem===<br />
The descendants of Shem are listed to indicate that now the families of Yefes and Cham were considered irrelevant.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/><br />
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==References==<br />
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<div>Parashat Noach<br />
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==Noach's Ark==<br />
===Noach's Family===<br />
Noach was a righteous man, with good deeds,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9">Rashi Berashis 6:9</ref> the main generations of the righteous.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> He was perfect in his generations who walked in the ways of Hashem who encouraged him, unlike Avraham who would strengthened himself in his righteousness.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> If Noach would have lived in the Generation of Avraham in some ways<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach">Shover Zadim Parshas Noach</ref> he would have been more righteous<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> but in other ways<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> he would not have been considered of any importance.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> He was righteous in compression of the 20 from Adom to Avraham but once Avraham appeared Noach was no longer considered righteous.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> <br />
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Noach had three sons; Shem, Cham, and Yafes. Noach's family was listed to indicate that now all the earlier generations were irrelevant.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1">Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1</ref> Nach witnesed the world in three states: Preflood, Flood and Postflood<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1">Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1</ref> and Elifaz Hatimni, Beldad HaShuchi and Tzofer Hanamasi.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> THe name Noach denotes pleasantness, since Noach was pleasant to Hashem, People, Upper Realms, Lower Realms, In This World and in the Next World.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> Noach was very wise.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/><br />
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===World's Perversion===<br />
The world became corrupted with immorality<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11">Rashi Berashis 6:11</ref> idolatry<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11"/> and full of robbery.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11"/> These were all caused by their opposition to the Tzadikim of their generation; Mesushelach and Noach,<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5">Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5</ref> and not receiving their oral teaching of Holiness<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5"/> leading them to twist all the teachings.<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5"/> Hashem saw the corruption and how all creatures including cattle, beasts and birds had corrupted their ways by mating with members of other species.<ref>Rashi Berashis 6:12</ref><br />
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Hashem told Noach that he plans on destroying all life on the world due to their immorality and idolatry which brings death to the world, killing both good and bad.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13">Rashi Berashis 6:13</ref> Despite this their final verdict was sealed only because of mass robbery.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13"/> Even the earth would be destroyed, blotted out and obliterated to the depth of a plowshare, 3 Tefachim,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13"/> roughly a foot (27 cm).<br />
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===Instruction of Ark===<br />
Hashem told Noach to make for himself an ark of gopher wood, which sounds like gophris - sulphur which they were decreed to be destroyed with.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> He should make the ark with compartments which would serve as dwelling places for the domestic animals and wild beasts.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> He was to caulk it both inside and outside with pitch, due to the strength of the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> Moshe's ark which was in calm waters was coated with clay inside and pitch only on the outside.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> Also so the righteous Moshe should not smell the bad odor of pitch.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> <br />
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Noach was to size it: 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high. He was to make a window<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16">Rashi Berashis 6:16</ref> which would server as a skylight for the ark as well as a<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> precious stone, which would generate light.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> <br />
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Its roof should slant upwards narrowing to the width of one cubit which was flat and was not pointed to the end,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> so the waters should run down.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> It should have a door on its side, so that the rain should not enter it. It would have three stories one above the other,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> a bottom for garbage, second story for animal dwelling, and an upper third story for the people.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/><br />
<br />
Although Hashem had many ways to save Noach, he did so through the ark, giving his generation a chance to repent as they inquired about Noach working on it for 120 years and replied that Hashem planed on bringing a flood to the world.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14">Rashi Berashis 6:14</ref><br />
<br />
===Flood Warning===<br />
Hashem announced that He is bringing a flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which there is the spirit of life, from beneath the heavens. Hashem was now ready to agree to the angels who urged Him long ago not to create man.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17">Rashi Berashis 6:17</ref> All that is upon the earth would perish. This flood would wear everything out, mix everything up and move everything from high ground to low ground and floated everything down to Bavel which is deep,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17"/> it was therefore called a בלה, בלבל, הוביל - מבול.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17"/><br />
<br />
Hashem will uphold His covenant with Noach that the fruits will not rot and become moldy<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18">Rashi Berashis 6:18</ref> and that he should not be killed by the wicked of his generation.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18"/> Noach is to enter the ark with his sons, wife and daughter-in-laws, they are prohibited to have marital relations.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18"/><br />
<br />
Noach is to bring with him into the ark at least<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19">Rashi Berashis 6:19</ref> two of each living thing, of all flesh, to preserve their life. These should include one male and one female.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19"/> This included even demons.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19"/> Two from each kind of bird, animal and ground creeper, that did not have relations with other species and corrupts their way,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20">Rashi Berashis 6:20</ref> will come on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20"/> to Noach so he could preserve their life. Those that whom the ark let them enter<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20"/> and did not reject, were to be saved.<br />
<br />
Noach is to take for himself and gather every food that is eaten and it should be for him and them to eat. Noach did according to all that Hashem had commanded him, specifically the building of the ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 6:22</ref><br />
<br />
===Entering Ark Command===<br />
Hashem told Noach to enter the ark along with his household for he has found him a righteous man in his generation. This praise was in front of Noach, therefore Hashem did not call him a 'perfectly righteous man' since we tell only partial praise in a person’s presence and all of it in his absence. <ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:1">Rashi Berashis 7:1</ref><br />
<br />
From all the clean animals Noach should take seven pairs of husband and wife. From the animals that are not clean, Noach should only take two, a single husband and wife. Since Noach studied Torah he knew which animals were going to distained to be pure for the Jewish Nation.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:2">Rashi Berashis 7:2</ref> More kosher animal were taken, so Noach could offer sacrifices from them upon leaving the ark.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:2"/> Also, from the clean<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:3">Rashi Berashis 7:3</ref> birds of the skies, Noach was to take seven pairs, male and female, to keep their seed alive on the face of the earth.<br />
<br />
Hashem declared that in another seven days, He will make it rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights, and He will blot out all beings that He created off the face of the earth. Hashem took into consideration the honor of the tzadik Mesushelach who had passed away when Noach turned 600 and delayed the retribution for an additional<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> seven days of his mourning,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4">Rashi Berashis 7:4</ref> above the originally decreed 120 year period.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> A flood of 40 days was decreed upon them, corresponding to the 40 days it takes to form a fetus, as retribution for burdening their Creator to to form illegitimate children.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> <br />
<br />
Noach did all that Hashem commanded him and entered the Ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 7:5</ref><br />
<br />
===Entering the Ark===<br />
Noach was 600 years old when the when the waters flooded the earth. Noach, his 3 sons, his wife and 3 daughter-in-laws entered the ark because of the waters of the flood. The men entered separately from the women to symbolize that it they were prohibited to have martital relations while the world what suffering.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:7">Rashi Berashis 7:7</ref> Noach had little faith and was not fully certain the flood would take place, he therefore did not enter the ark until he was forced to by the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:7"/> Sets of two, male and female from the clean animals, unclean animals, birds and land creeps arrived on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:9">Rashi Berashis 7:9</ref> to Noach and the ark, just like Hashem commanded. At least one set of two arrived from each species.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:9"/><br />
<br />
The people of his generation threatened to kill Noach and break the ark, if they see him entering it. Hashem announced that he would bring Noach into the ark before their eyes and they would see whose plan prevailed.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:13">Rashi Berashis 7:13</ref> Therefore Noach entered the ark in middle of the day with his sons; Shem, Cham and Yefes, along with his wife and the daughter in laws. They were accompanied by every type of beast, domestic animal, land creeper, birds and flying creatures with appearance of feathers,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:14"/> including locusts. <ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:14">Rashi Berashis 7:14</ref> All flesh that contained spirit of life, came in sets of two, male and female to Noach and the ark, as Hashem had commanded him. Hashem then shut him in the ark, sealing it from water<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:16"/> and protecting him from the masses who wanted to break the ark by surrounding it with bear and lions who would kill them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:16">Rashi Berashis 7:16</ref><br />
<br />
==The Flood==<br />
After the seven day extension, on the 600th year of Noach's life, on the 17th of the second month of the year (Which was either Cheshvon or Iyar),<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11">Rashi Berashis 7:11</ref> all the springs of the great depths ruptured to emit their waters<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11"/> and the portals of the sky opened bringing the flood waters upon the earth. Sine that generation had sinned with 'great' evil they were now punished measure for measure with the waters of the 'great' depths.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11"/><br />
<br />
Hashem began the flood with mercy bringdown light rains that would have concluded as rains of blessing had they repented. When they did not, it turned into a flood.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12">Rashi Berashis 7:12</ref> There was rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights, lasting until the 28th of Kislev<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/> (12 Cheshvon + 28 Kislev).<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/> In truth, it rained for 41 days but the first was not counted since it did not rain during its proceeding night.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/><br />
<br />
When the forty days of flood upon the earth began, the waters increased and lifted the ark, and raising it off the earth. Like all loaded ships, the bottom of the ark remained submerged 11 cubits in the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:17">Rashi Berashis 7:17</ref> The waters became powerful, greatly increased on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:18">Rashi Berashis 7:18</ref> upon the earth, the ark moving above the waters. When the waters became exceedingly powerful upon the earth, all the tall mountains found under the heavens, became covered by water. The mountains were covered by an additional 15 cubits of water above their highest peaks.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:20">Rashi Berashis 7:20</ref><br />
<br />
===Destruction of Life===<br />
All flesh perished that moved upon the earth, including all birds, cattle, beasts, creeping creatures that creep upon the earth and all humans. Everything that breathed the spirit of life in its nostrils,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:22">Rashi Berashis 7:22</ref> that were on dry land died. However the fish that were in the ocean did not die.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:22"/><br />
<br />
The bulk<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> of residue from the living and vegetation matter were dragged by Flood waters to the Bavel area, where it settled<ref>Medrash Rabba Icha 23</ref> which at the time was the lowest region on Earth.<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
The Flood<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23">Rashi Berashis 7:23</ref> obliterated all beings that were upon the face of the earth, including man, animal, birds of the skys and creeping things. They were obliterated from the earth. Only Noach and those with him in the ark survived. Although Noach survived, it was rough experience for him as well. He was groaning and spitting blood because of the burden taking care of the cattle and beasts.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/> He was also wounded after the lion struck him when he delayed feeding it.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/> This was to eradicate any misdoings of Noach while still in This World, so he would not be punished in the next.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/><br />
<br />
==Ending of Flood==<br />
The water prevailed upon the earth for one hundred and fifty days. Hashem remembered Noach and all the beasts and cattle that were with him in the ark. This was due to the prayers of Noach and his sons that transformed the Divine attribute of Justice into the attribute of mercy.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 8:1">Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> Hashem also remembered the merits of the animals, that they did not corrupt their ways before the flood and that they did not have marital relationships in ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> Hashem passed a spirit of consolation and calm before Him<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> regarding the events<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> of the earth, calming the anger<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> and the waters subsided.<br />
<br />
===Rainbows===<br />
Rainbows are caused by light refracting and dispersing through airborne droplets of water. Before the Flood, the atmosphere air was extremely clean and refined and water droplets would not hang in it. Only after the Flood whose waters contaminated the world with an influx of sulphur and scorched all living and vegetation matter, which were then absorbed by the earth, did the atmosphere become polluted. This caused the air and clouds to thicken and only then did water drops start clinging in it, causing the rainbow effect.<ref>Shover Zadim Noach based on Tiferes Yonason Berashis 9:12</ref><br />
<br />
===Permitting of Meat===<br />
They were now permitted to eat animal meat which had not been allowed until then, just like they had been permitted to eat vegetation at the time of Adom.<ref>Rashi Berashis 30</ref><br />
<br />
===Genealogy of Shem===<br />
The descendants of Shem are listed to indicate that now the families of Yefes and Cham were considered irrelevant.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/><br />
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==References==<br />
<references/><br />
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<div>Parashat Noach<br />
<br />
==Noach's Ark==<br />
===Noach's Family===<br />
Noach was a righteous man, with good deeds,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9">Rashi Berashis 6:9</ref> the main generations of the righteous.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> He was perfect in his generations who walked in the ways of Hashem who encouraged him, unlike Avraham who would strengthened himself in his righteousness.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> If Noach would have lived in the Generation of Avraham in some ways<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach">Shover Zadim Parshas Noach</ref> he would have been more righteous<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> but in other ways<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> he would not have been considered of any importance.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> He was righteous in compression of the 20 from Adom to Avraham but once Avraham appeared Noach was no longer considered righteous.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> <br />
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Noach had three sons; Shem, Cham, and Yafes. Noach's family was listed to indicate that now all the earlier generations were irrelevant.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1">Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1</ref> Nach witnesed the world in three states: Preflood, Flood and Postflood<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1">Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1</ref> and Elifaz Hatimni, Beldad HaShuchi and Tzofer Hanamasi.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> THe name Noach denotes pleasantness, since Noach was pleasant to Hashem, People, Upper Realms, Lower Realms, In This World and in the Next World.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> Noach was very wise.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/><br />
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===World's Perversion===<br />
The world became corrupted with immorality<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11">Rashi Berashis 6:11</ref> idolatry<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11"/> and full of robbery.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11"/> These were all caused by their opposition to the Tzadikim of their generation; Mesushelach and Noach,<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5">Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5</ref> and not receiving their oral teaching of Holiness<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5"/> leading them to twist all the teachings.<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5"/> Hashem saw the corruption and how all creatures including cattle, beasts and birds had corrupted their ways by mating with members of other species.<ref>Rashi Berashis 6:12</ref><br />
<br />
Hashem told Noach that he plans on destroying all life on the world due to their immorality and idolatry which brings death to the world, killing both good and bad.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13">Rashi Berashis 6:13</ref> Despite this their final verdict was sealed only because of mass robbery.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13"/> Even the earth would be destroyed, blotted out and obliterated to the depth of a plowshare, 3 Tefachim,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13"/> roughly a foot (27 cm).<br />
<br />
===Instruction of Ark===<br />
Hashem told Noach to make for himself an ark of gopher wood, which sounds like gophris - sulphur which they were decreed to be destroyed with.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> He should make the ark with compartments which would serve as dwelling places for the domestic animals and wild beasts.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> He was to caulk it both inside and outside with pitch, due to the strength of the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> Moshe's ark which was in calm waters was coated with clay inside and pitch only on the outside.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> Also so the righteous Moshe should not smell the bad odor of pitch.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> <br />
<br />
Noach was to size it: 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high. He was to make a window<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16">Rashi Berashis 6:16</ref> which would server as a skylight for the ark as well as a<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> precious stone, which would generate light.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> <br />
<br />
Its roof should slant upwards narrowing to the width of one cubit which was flat and was not pointed to the end,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> so the waters should run down.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> It should have a door on its side, so that the rain should not enter it. It would have three stories one above the other,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> a bottom for garbage, second story for animal dwelling, and an upper third story for the people.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/><br />
<br />
Although Hashem had many ways to save Noach, he did so through the ark, giving his generation a chance to repent as they inquired about Noach working on it for 120 years and replied that Hashem planed on bringing a flood to the world.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14">Rashi Berashis 6:14</ref><br />
<br />
===Flood Warning===<br />
Hashem announced that He is bringing a flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which there is the spirit of life, from beneath the heavens. Hashem was now ready to agree to the angels who urged Him long ago not to create man.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17">Rashi Berashis 6:17</ref> All that is upon the earth would perish. This flood would wear everything out, mix everything up and move everything from high ground to low ground and floated everything down to Bavel which is deep,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17"/> it was therefore called a בלה, בלבל, הוביל - מבול.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17"/><br />
<br />
Hashem will uphold His covenant with Noach that the fruits will not rot and become moldy<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18">Rashi Berashis 6:18</ref> and that he should not be killed by the wicked of his generation.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18"/> Noach is to enter the ark with his sons, wife and daughter-in-laws, they are prohibited to have marital relations.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18"/><br />
<br />
Noach is to bring with him into the ark at least<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19">Rashi Berashis 6:19</ref> two of each living thing, of all flesh, to preserve their life. These should include one male and one female.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19"/> This included even demons.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19"/> Two from each kind of bird, animal and ground creeper, that did not have relations with other species and corrupts their way,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20">Rashi Berashis 6:20</ref> will come on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20"/> to Noach so he could preserve their life. Those that whom the ark let them enter<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20"/> and did not reject, were to be saved.<br />
<br />
Noach is to take for himself and gather every food that is eaten and it should be for him and them to eat. Noach did according to all that Hashem had commanded him, specifically the building of the ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 6:22</ref><br />
<br />
===Entering Ark Command===<br />
Hashem told Noach to enter the ark along with his household for he has found him a righteous man in his generation. This praise was in front of Noach, therefore Hashem did not call him a 'perfectly righteous man' since we tell only partial praise in a person’s presence and all of it in his absence. <ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:1">Rashi Berashis 7:1</ref><br />
<br />
From all the clean animals Noach should take seven pairs of husband and wife. From the animals that are not clean, Noach should only take two, a single husband and wife. Since Noach studied Torah he knew which animals were going to distained to be pure for the Jewish Nation.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:2">Rashi Berashis 7:2</ref> More kosher animal were taken, so Noach could offer sacrifices from them upon leaving the ark.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:2"/> Also, from the clean<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:3">Rashi Berashis 7:3</ref> birds of the skies, Noach was to take seven pairs, male and female, to keep their seed alive on the face of the earth.<br />
<br />
Hashem declared that in another seven days, He will make it rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights, and He will blot out all beings that He created off the face of the earth. Hashem took into consideration the honor of the tzadik Mesushelach who had passed away when Noach turned 600 and delayed the retribution for an additional<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> seven days of his mourning,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4">Rashi Berashis 7:4</ref> above the originally decreed 120 year period.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> A flood of 40 days was decreed upon them, corresponding to the 40 days it takes to form a fetus, as retribution for burdening their Creator to to form illegitimate children.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> <br />
<br />
Noach did all that Hashem commanded him and entered the Ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 7:5</ref><br />
<br />
===Entering the Ark===<br />
Noach was 600 years old when the when the waters flooded the earth. Noach, his 3 sons, his wife and 3 daughter-in-laws entered the ark because of the waters of the flood. The men entered separately from the women to symbolize that it they were prohibited to have martital relations while the world what suffering.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:7">Rashi Berashis 7:7</ref> Noach had little faith and was not fully certain the flood would take place, he therefore did not enter the ark until he was forced to by the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:7"/> Sets of two, male and female from the clean animals, unclean animals, birds and land creeps arrived on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:9">Rashi Berashis 7:9</ref> to Noach and the ark, just like Hashem commanded. At least one set of two arrived from each species.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:9"/><br />
<br />
The people of his generation threatened to kill Noach and break the ark, if they see him entering it. Hashem announced that he would bring Noach into the ark before their eyes and they would see whose plan prevailed.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:13">Rashi Berashis 7:13</ref> Therefore Noach entered the ark in middle of the day with his sons; Shem, Cham and Yefes, along with his wife and the daughter in laws. They were accompanied by every type of beast, domestic animal, land creeper, birds and flying creatures with appearance of feathers,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:14"/> including locusts. <ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:14">Rashi Berashis 7:14</ref> All flesh that contained spirit of life, came in sets of two, male and female to Noach and the ark, as Hashem had commanded him. Hashem then shut him in the ark, sealing it from water<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:16"/> and protecting him from the masses who wanted to break the ark by surrounding it with bear and lions who would kill them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:16">Rashi Berashis 7:16</ref><br />
<br />
==The Flood==<br />
After the seven day extension, on the 600th year of Noach's life, on the 17th of the second month of the year (Which was either Cheshvon or Iyar),<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11">Rashi Berashis 7:11</ref> all the springs of the great depths ruptured to emit their waters<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11"/> and the portals of the sky opened bringing the flood waters upon the earth. Sine that generation had sinned with 'great' evil they were now punished measure for measure with the waters of the 'great' depths.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11"/><br />
<br />
Hashem began the flood with mercy bringdown light rains that would have concluded as rains of blessing had they repented. When they did not, it turned into a flood.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12">Rashi Berashis 7:12</ref> There was rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights, lasting until the 28th of Kislev<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/> (12 Cheshvon + 28 Kislev).<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/> In truth, it rained for 41 days but the first was not counted since it did not rain during its proceeding night.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/><br />
<br />
When the forty days of flood upon the earth began, the waters increased and lifted the ark, and raising it off the earth. Like all loaded ships, the bottom of the ark remained submerged 11 cubits in the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:17">Rashi Berashis 7:17</ref> The waters became powerful, greatly increased on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:18">Rashi Berashis 7:18</ref> upon the earth, the ark moving above the waters. When the waters became exceedingly powerful upon the earth, all the tall mountains found under the heavens, became covered by water. The mountains were covered by an additional 15 cubits of water above their highest peaks.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:20">Rashi Berashis 7:20</ref><br />
<br />
===Destruction of Life===<br />
All flesh perished that moved upon the earth, including all birds, cattle, beasts, creeping creatures that creep upon the earth and all humans. Everything that breathed the spirit of life in its nostrils,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:22">Rashi Berashis 7:22</ref> that were on dry land died. However the fish that were in the ocean did not die.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:22"/><br />
<br />
The bulk of residue from the living and vegetation matter were dragged by Flood waters to <br />
<ref>Medrash Rabba Icha 23</ref><br />
<br />
<br />
The Flood<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23">Rashi Berashis 7:23</ref> obliterated all beings that were upon the face of the earth, including man, animal, birds of the skys and creeping things. They were obliterated from the earth. Only Noach and those with him in the ark survived. Although Noach survived, it was rough experience for him as well. He was groaning and spitting blood because of the burden taking care of the cattle and beasts.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/> He was also wounded after the lion struck him when he delayed feeding it.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/> This was to eradicate any misdoings of Noach while still in This World, so he would not be punished in the next.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/><br />
<br />
==Ending of Flood==<br />
The water prevailed upon the earth for one hundred and fifty days. Hashem remembered Noach and all the beasts and cattle that were with him in the ark. This was due to the prayers of Noach and his sons that transformed the Divine attribute of Justice into the attribute of mercy.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 8:1">Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> Hashem also remembered the merits of the animals, that they did not corrupt their ways before the flood and that they did not have marital relationships in ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> Hashem passed a spirit of consolation and calm before Him<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> regarding the events<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> of the earth, calming the anger<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> and the waters subsided.<br />
<br />
===Rainbows===<br />
Rainbows are caused by light refracting and dispersing through airborne droplets of water. Before the Flood, the atmosphere air was extremely clean and refined and water droplets would not hang in it. Only after the Flood whose waters contaminated the world with an influx of sulphur and scorched all living and vegetation matter, which were then absorbed by the earth, did the atmosphere become polluted. This caused the air and clouds to thicken and only then did water drops start clinging in it, causing the rainbow effect.<ref>Shover Zadim Noach based on Tiferes Yonason Berashis 9:12</ref><br />
<br />
===Permitting of Meat===<br />
They were now permitted to eat animal meat which had not been allowed until then, just like they had been permitted to eat vegetation at the time of Adom.<ref>Rashi Berashis 30</ref><br />
<br />
===Genealogy of Shem===<br />
The descendants of Shem are listed to indicate that now the families of Yefes and Cham were considered irrelevant.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/><br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
<br />
{{Weekly Parsha}}<br />
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<div>Parashat Noach<br />
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==Noach's Ark==<br />
===Noach's Family===<br />
Noach was a righteous man, with good deeds,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9">Rashi Berashis 6:9</ref> the main generations of the righteous.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> He was perfect in his generations who walked in the ways of Hashem who encouraged him, unlike Avraham who would strengthened himself in his righteousness.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> If Noach would have lived in the Generation of Avraham in some ways<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach">Shover Zadim Parshas Noach</ref> he would have been more righteous<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> but in other ways<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> he would not have been considered of any importance.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> He was righteous in compression of the 20 from Adom to Avraham but once Avraham appeared Noach was no longer considered righteous.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> <br />
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Noach had three sons; Shem, Cham, and Yafes. Noach's family was listed to indicate that now all the earlier generations were irrelevant.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1">Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1</ref> Nach witnesed the world in three states: Preflood, Flood and Postflood<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1">Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1</ref> and Elifaz Hatimni, Beldad HaShuchi and Tzofer Hanamasi.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> THe name Noach denotes pleasantness, since Noach was pleasant to Hashem, People, Upper Realms, Lower Realms, In This World and in the Next World.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> Noach was very wise.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/><br />
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===World's Perversion===<br />
The world became corrupted with immorality<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11">Rashi Berashis 6:11</ref> idolatry<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11"/> and full of robbery.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11"/> These were all caused by their opposition to the Tzadikim of their generation; Mesushelach and Noach,<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5">Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5</ref> and not receiving their oral teaching of Holiness<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5"/> leading them to twist all the teachings.<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5"/> Hashem saw the corruption and how all creatures including cattle, beasts and birds had corrupted their ways by mating with members of other species.<ref>Rashi Berashis 6:12</ref><br />
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Hashem told Noach that he plans on destroying all life on the world due to their immorality and idolatry which brings death to the world, killing both good and bad.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13">Rashi Berashis 6:13</ref> Despite this their final verdict was sealed only because of mass robbery.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13"/> Even the earth would be destroyed, blotted out and obliterated to the depth of a plowshare, 3 Tefachim,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13"/> roughly a foot (27 cm).<br />
<br />
===Instruction of Ark===<br />
Hashem told Noach to make for himself an ark of gopher wood, which sounds like gophris - sulphur which they were decreed to be destroyed with.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> He should make the ark with compartments which would serve as dwelling places for the domestic animals and wild beasts.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> He was to caulk it both inside and outside with pitch, due to the strength of the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> Moshe's ark which was in calm waters was coated with clay inside and pitch only on the outside.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> Also so the righteous Moshe should not smell the bad odor of pitch.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> <br />
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Noach was to size it: 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high. He was to make a window<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16">Rashi Berashis 6:16</ref> which would server as a skylight for the ark as well as a<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> precious stone, which would generate light.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> <br />
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Its roof should slant upwards narrowing to the width of one cubit which was flat and was not pointed to the end,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> so the waters should run down.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> It should have a door on its side, so that the rain should not enter it. It would have three stories one above the other,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> a bottom for garbage, second story for animal dwelling, and an upper third story for the people.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/><br />
<br />
Although Hashem had many ways to save Noach, he did so through the ark, giving his generation a chance to repent as they inquired about Noach working on it for 120 years and replied that Hashem planed on bringing a flood to the world.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14">Rashi Berashis 6:14</ref><br />
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===Flood Warning===<br />
Hashem announced that He is bringing a flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which there is the spirit of life, from beneath the heavens. Hashem was now ready to agree to the angels who urged Him long ago not to create man.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17">Rashi Berashis 6:17</ref> All that is upon the earth would perish. This flood would wear everything out, mix everything up and move everything from high ground to low ground and floated everything down to Bavel which is deep,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17"/> it was therefore called a בלה, בלבל, הוביל - מבול.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17"/><br />
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Hashem will uphold His covenant with Noach that the fruits will not rot and become moldy<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18">Rashi Berashis 6:18</ref> and that he should not be killed by the wicked of his generation.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18"/> Noach is to enter the ark with his sons, wife and daughter-in-laws, they are prohibited to have marital relations.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18"/><br />
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Noach is to bring with him into the ark at least<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19">Rashi Berashis 6:19</ref> two of each living thing, of all flesh, to preserve their life. These should include one male and one female.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19"/> This included even demons.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19"/> Two from each kind of bird, animal and ground creeper, that did not have relations with other species and corrupts their way,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20">Rashi Berashis 6:20</ref> will come on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20"/> to Noach so he could preserve their life. Those that whom the ark let them enter<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20"/> and did not reject, were to be saved.<br />
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Noach is to take for himself and gather every food that is eaten and it should be for him and them to eat. Noach did according to all that Hashem had commanded him, specifically the building of the ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 6:22</ref><br />
<br />
===Entering Ark Command===<br />
Hashem told Noach to enter the ark along with his household for he has found him a righteous man in his generation. This praise was in front of Noach, therefore Hashem did not call him a 'perfectly righteous man' since we tell only partial praise in a person’s presence and all of it in his absence. <ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:1">Rashi Berashis 7:1</ref><br />
<br />
From all the clean animals Noach should take seven pairs of husband and wife. From the animals that are not clean, Noach should only take two, a single husband and wife. Since Noach studied Torah he knew which animals were going to distained to be pure for the Jewish Nation.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:2">Rashi Berashis 7:2</ref> More kosher animal were taken, so Noach could offer sacrifices from them upon leaving the ark.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:2"/> Also, from the clean<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:3">Rashi Berashis 7:3</ref> birds of the skies, Noach was to take seven pairs, male and female, to keep their seed alive on the face of the earth.<br />
<br />
Hashem declared that in another seven days, He will make it rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights, and He will blot out all beings that He created off the face of the earth. Hashem took into consideration the honor of the tzadik Mesushelach who had passed away when Noach turned 600 and delayed the retribution for an additional<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> seven days of his mourning,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4">Rashi Berashis 7:4</ref> above the originally decreed 120 year period.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> A flood of 40 days was decreed upon them, corresponding to the 40 days it takes to form a fetus, as retribution for burdening their Creator to to form illegitimate children.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> <br />
<br />
Noach did all that Hashem commanded him and entered the Ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 7:5</ref><br />
<br />
===Entering the Ark===<br />
Noach was 600 years old when the when the waters flooded the earth. Noach, his 3 sons, his wife and 3 daughter-in-laws entered the ark because of the waters of the flood. The men entered separately from the women to symbolize that it they were prohibited to have martital relations while the world what suffering.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:7">Rashi Berashis 7:7</ref> Noach had little faith and was not fully certain the flood would take place, he therefore did not enter the ark until he was forced to by the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:7"/> Sets of two, male and female from the clean animals, unclean animals, birds and land creeps arrived on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:9">Rashi Berashis 7:9</ref> to Noach and the ark, just like Hashem commanded. At least one set of two arrived from each species.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:9"/><br />
<br />
The people of his generation threatened to kill Noach and break the ark, if they see him entering it. Hashem announced that he would bring Noach into the ark before their eyes and they would see whose plan prevailed.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:13">Rashi Berashis 7:13</ref> Therefore Noach entered the ark in middle of the day with his sons; Shem, Cham and Yefes, along with his wife and the daughter in laws. They were accompanied by every type of beast, domestic animal, land creeper, birds and flying creatures with appearance of feathers,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:14"/> including locusts. <ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:14">Rashi Berashis 7:14</ref> All flesh that contained spirit of life, came in sets of two, male and female to Noach and the ark, as Hashem had commanded him. Hashem then shut him in the ark, sealing it from water<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:16"/> and protecting him from the masses who wanted to break the ark by surrounding it with bear and lions who would kill them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:16">Rashi Berashis 7:16</ref><br />
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==The Flood==<br />
After the seven day extension, on the 600th year of Noach's life, on the 17th of the second month of the year (Which was either Cheshvon or Iyar),<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11">Rashi Berashis 7:11</ref> all the springs of the great depths ruptured to emit their waters<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11"/> and the portals of the sky opened bringing the flood waters upon the earth. Sine that generation had sinned with 'great' evil they were now punished measure for measure with the waters of the 'great' depths.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11"/><br />
<br />
Hashem began the flood with mercy bringdown light rains that would have concluded as rains of blessing had they repented. When they did not, it turned into a flood.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12">Rashi Berashis 7:12</ref> There was rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights, lasting until the 28th of Kislev<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/> (12 Cheshvon + 28 Kislev).<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/> In truth, it rained for 41 days but the first was not counted since it did not rain during its proceeding night.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/><br />
<br />
When the forty days of flood upon the earth began, the waters increased and lifted the ark, and raising it off the earth. Like all loaded ships, the bottom of the ark remained submerged 11 cubits in the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:17">Rashi Berashis 7:17</ref> The waters became powerful, greatly increased on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:18">Rashi Berashis 7:18</ref> upon the earth, the ark moving above the waters. When the waters became exceedingly powerful upon the earth, all the tall mountains found under the heavens, became covered by water. The mountains were covered by an additional 15 cubits of water above their highest peaks.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:20">Rashi Berashis 7:20</ref><br />
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===Destruction of Life===<br />
All flesh perished that moved upon the earth, including all birds, cattle, beasts, creeping creatures that creep upon the earth and all humans. Everything that breathed the spirit of life in its nostrils,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:22">Rashi Berashis 7:22</ref> that were on dry land died. However the fish that were in the ocean did not die.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:22"/><br />
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The Flood<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23">Rashi Berashis 7:23</ref> obliterated all beings that were upon the face of the earth, including man, animal, birds of the skys and creeping things. They were obliterated from the earth. Only Noach and those with him in the ark survived. Although Noach survived, it was rough experience for him as well. He was groaning and spitting blood because of the burden taking care of the cattle and beasts.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/> He was also wounded after the lion struck him when he delayed feeding it.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/> This was to eradicate any misdoings of Noach while still in This World, so he would not be punished in the next.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/><br />
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==Ending of Flood==<br />
The water prevailed upon the earth for one hundred and fifty days. Hashem remembered Noach and all the beasts and cattle that were with him in the ark. This was due to the prayers of Noach and his sons that transformed the Divine attribute of Justice into the attribute of mercy.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 8:1">Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> Hashem also remembered the merits of the animals, that they did not corrupt their ways before the flood and that they did not have marital relationships in ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> Hashem passed a spirit of consolation and calm before Him<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> regarding the events<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> of the earth, calming the anger<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> and the waters subsided.<br />
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===Rainbows===<br />
Rainbows are caused by light refracting and dispersing through airborne droplets of water. Before the Flood, the atmosphere air was extremely clean and refined and water droplets would not hang in it. Only after the Flood whose waters contaminated the world with an influx of sulphur and scorched all living and vegetation matter, which were then absorbed by the earth, did the atmosphere become polluted. This caused the air and clouds to thicken and only then did water drops start clinging in it, causing the rainbow effect.<ref>Shover Zadim Noach based on Tiferes Yonason Berashis 9:12</ref><br />
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===Permitting of Meat===<br />
They were now permitted to eat animal meat which had not been allowed until then, just like they had been permitted to eat vegetation at the time of Adom.<ref>Rashi Berashis 30</ref><br />
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===Genealogy of Shem===<br />
The descendants of Shem are listed to indicate that now the families of Yefes and Cham were considered irrelevant.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/><br />
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<div>Parashat Noach<br />
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==Noach's Ark==<br />
===Noach's Family===<br />
Noach was a righteous man, with good deeds,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9">Rashi Berashis 6:9</ref> the main generations of the righteous.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> He was perfect in his generations who walked in the ways of Hashem who encouraged him, unlike Avraham who would strengthened himself in his righteousness.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> If Noach would have lived in the Generation of Avraham in some ways<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach">Shover Zadim Parshas Noach</ref> he would have been more righteous<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> but in other ways<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> he would not have been considered of any importance.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> He was righteous in compression of the 20 from Adom to Avraham but once Avraham appeared Noach was no longer considered righteous.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> <br />
<br />
Noach had three sons; Shem, Cham, and Yafes. Noach's family was listed to indicate that now all the earlier generations were irrelevant.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1">Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1</ref> Nach witnesed the world in three states: Preflood, Flood and Postflood<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1">Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1</ref> and Elifaz Hatimni, Beldad HaShuchi and Tzofer Hanamasi.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> THe name Noach denotes pleasantness, since Noach was pleasant to Hashem, People, Upper Realms, Lower Realms, In This World and in the Next World.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> Noach was very wise.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/><br />
<br />
===World's Perversion===<br />
The world became corrupted with immorality<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11">Rashi Berashis 6:11</ref> idolatry<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11"/> and full of robbery.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11"/> These were all caused by their opposition to the Tzadikim of their generation; Mesushelach and Noach,<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5">Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5</ref> and not receiving their oral teaching of Holiness<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5"/> leading them to twist all the teachings.<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5"/> Hashem saw the corruption and how all creatures including cattle, beasts and birds had corrupted their ways by mating with members of other species.<ref>Rashi Berashis 6:12</ref><br />
<br />
Hashem told Noach that he plans on destroying all life on the world due to their immorality and idolatry which brings death to the world, killing both good and bad.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13">Rashi Berashis 6:13</ref> Despite this their final verdict was sealed only because of mass robbery.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13"/> Even the earth would be destroyed, blotted out and obliterated to the depth of a plowshare, 3 Tefachim,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13"/> roughly a foot (27 cm).<br />
<br />
===Instruction of Ark===<br />
Hashem told Noach to make for himself an ark of gopher wood, which sounds like gophris - sulphur which they were decreed to be destroyed with.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> He should make the ark with compartments which would serve as dwelling places for the domestic animals and wild beasts.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> He was to caulk it both inside and outside with pitch, due to the strength of the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> Moshe's ark which was in calm waters was coated with clay inside and pitch only on the outside.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> Also so the righteous Moshe should not smell the bad odor of pitch.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> <br />
<br />
Noach was to size it: 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high. He was to make a window<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16">Rashi Berashis 6:16</ref> which would server as a skylight for the ark as well as a<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> precious stone, which would generate light.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> <br />
<br />
Its roof should slant upwards narrowing to the width of one cubit which was flat and was not pointed to the end,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> so the waters should run down.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> It should have a door on its side, so that the rain should not enter it. It would have three stories one above the other,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> a bottom for garbage, second story for animal dwelling, and an upper third story for the people.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/><br />
<br />
Although Hashem had many ways to save Noach, he did so through the ark, giving his generation a chance to repent as they inquired about Noach working on it for 120 years and replied that Hashem planed on bringing a flood to the world.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14">Rashi Berashis 6:14</ref><br />
<br />
===Flood Warning===<br />
Hashem announced that He is bringing a flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which there is the spirit of life, from beneath the heavens. Hashem was now ready to agree to the angels who urged Him long ago not to create man.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17">Rashi Berashis 6:17</ref> All that is upon the earth would perish. This flood would wear everything out, mix everything up and move everything from high ground to low ground and floated everything down to Bavel which is deep,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17"/> it was therefore called a בלה, בלבל, הוביל - מבול.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17"/><br />
<br />
Hashem will uphold His covenant with Noach that the fruits will not rot and become moldy<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18">Rashi Berashis 6:18</ref> and that he should not be killed by the wicked of his generation.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18"/> Noach is to enter the ark with his sons, wife and daughter-in-laws, they are prohibited to have marital relations.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18"/><br />
<br />
Noach is to bring with him into the ark at least<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19">Rashi Berashis 6:19</ref> two of each living thing, of all flesh, to preserve their life. These should include one male and one female.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19"/> This included even demons.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19"/> Two from each kind of bird, animal and ground creeper, that did not have relations with other species and corrupts their way,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20">Rashi Berashis 6:20</ref> will come on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20"/> to Noach so he could preserve their life. Those that whom the ark let them enter<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20"/> and did not reject, were to be saved.<br />
<br />
Noach is to take for himself and gather every food that is eaten and it should be for him and them to eat. Noach did according to all that Hashem had commanded him, specifically the building of the ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 6:22</ref><br />
<br />
===Entering Ark Command===<br />
Hashem told Noach to enter the ark along with his household for he has found him a righteous man in his generation. This praise was in front of Noach, therefore Hashem did not call him a 'perfectly righteous man' since we tell only partial praise in a person’s presence and all of it in his absence. <ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:1">Rashi Berashis 7:1</ref><br />
<br />
From all the clean animals Noach should take seven pairs of husband and wife. From the animals that are not clean, Noach should only take two, a single husband and wife. Since Noach studied Torah he knew which animals were going to distained to be pure for the Jewish Nation.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:2">Rashi Berashis 7:2</ref> More kosher animal were taken, so Noach could offer sacrifices from them upon leaving the ark.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:2"/> Also, from the clean<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:3">Rashi Berashis 7:3</ref> birds of the skies, Noach was to take seven pairs, male and female, to keep their seed alive on the face of the earth.<br />
<br />
Hashem declared that in another seven days, He will make it rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights, and He will blot out all beings that He created off the face of the earth. Hashem took into consideration the honor of the tzadik Mesushelach who had passed away when Noach turned 600 and delayed the retribution for an additional<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> seven days of his mourning,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4">Rashi Berashis 7:4</ref> above the originally decreed 120 year period.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> A flood of 40 days was decreed upon them, corresponding to the 40 days it takes to form a fetus, as retribution for burdening their Creator to to form illegitimate children.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> <br />
<br />
Noach did all that Hashem commanded him and entered the Ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 7:5</ref><br />
<br />
===Entering the Ark===<br />
Noach was 600 years old when the when the waters flooded the earth. Noach, his 3 sons, his wife and 3 daughter-in-laws entered the ark because of the waters of the flood. The men entered separately from the women to symbolize that it they were prohibited to have martital relations while the world what suffering.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:7">Rashi Berashis 7:7</ref> Noach had little faith and was not fully certain the flood would take place, he therefore did not enter the ark until he was forced to by the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:7"/> Sets of two, male and female from the clean animals, unclean animals, birds and land creeps arrived on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:9">Rashi Berashis 7:9</ref> to Noach and the ark, just like Hashem commanded. At least one set of two arrived from each species.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:9"/><br />
<br />
The people of his generation threatened to kill Noach and break the ark, if they see him entering it. Hashem announced that he would bring Noach into the ark before their eyes and they would see whose plan prevailed.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:13">Rashi Berashis 7:13</ref> Therefore Noach entered the ark in middle of the day with his sons; Shem, Cham and Yefes, along with his wife and the daughter in laws. They were accompanied by every type of beast, domestic animal, land creeper, birds and flying creatures with appearance of feathers,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:14"/> including locusts. <ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:14">Rashi Berashis 7:14</ref> All flesh that contained spirit of life, came in sets of two, male and female to Noach and the ark, as Hashem had commanded him. Hashem then shut him in the ark, sealing it from water<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:16"/> and protecting him from the masses who wanted to break the ark by surrounding it with bear and lions who would kill them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:16">Rashi Berashis 7:16</ref><br />
<br />
==The Flood==<br />
After the seven day extension, on the 600th year of Noach's life, on the 17th of the second month of the year (Which was either Cheshvon or Iyar),<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11">Rashi Berashis 7:11</ref> all the springs of the great depths ruptured to emit their waters<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11"/> and the portals of the sky opened bringing the flood waters upon the earth. Sine that generation had sinned with 'great' evil they were now punished measure for measure with the waters of the 'great' depths.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11"/><br />
<br />
Hashem began the flood with mercy bringdown light rains that would have concluded as rains of blessing had they repented. When they did not, it turned into a flood.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12">Rashi Berashis 7:12</ref> There was rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights, lasting until the 28th of Kislev<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/> (12 Cheshvon + 28 Kislev).<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/> In truth, it rained for 41 days but the first was not counted since it did not rain during its proceeding night.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/><br />
<br />
When the forty days of flood upon the earth began, the waters increased and lifted the ark, and raising it off the earth. Like all loaded ships, the bottom of the ark remained submerged 11 cubits in the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:17">Rashi Berashis 7:17</ref> The waters became powerful, greatly increased on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:18">Rashi Berashis 7:18</ref> upon the earth, the ark moving above the waters. When the waters became exceedingly powerful upon the earth, all the tall mountains found under the heavens, became covered by water. The mountains were covered by an additional 15 cubits of water above their highest peaks.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:20">Rashi Berashis 7:20</ref><br />
<br />
===Destruction of Life===<br />
All flesh perished that moved upon the earth, including all birds, cattle, beasts, creeping creatures that creep upon the earth and all humans. Everything that breathed the spirit of life in its nostrils,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:22">Rashi Berashis 7:22</ref> that were on dry land died. However the fish that were in the ocean did not die.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:22"/><br />
<br />
<br />
The Flood<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23">Rashi Berashis 7:23</ref> obliterated all beings that were upon the face of the earth, including man, animal, birds of the skys and creeping things. They were obliterated from the earth. Only Noach and those with him in the ark survived. Although Noach survived, it was rough experience for him as well. He was groaning and spitting blood because of the burden taking care of the cattle and beasts.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/> He was also wounded after the lion struck him when he delayed feeding it.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/> This was to eradicate any misdoings of Noach while still in This World, so he would not be punished in the next.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/><br />
<br />
==Ending of Flood==<br />
The water prevailed upon the earth for one hundred and fifty days. Hashem remembered Noach and all the beasts and cattle that were with him in the ark. This was due to the prayers of Noach and his sons that transformed the Divine attribute of Justice into the attribute of mercy.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 8:1">Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> Hashem also remembered the merits of the animals, that they did not corrupt their ways before the flood and that they did not have marital relationships in ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> Hashem passed a spirit of consolation and calm before Him<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> regarding the events<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> of the earth, calming the anger<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> and the waters subsided.<br />
<br />
===Rainbows===<br />
Rainbows are caused by light refracting and dispersing through airborne droplets of water. Before the Flood, the atmosphere air was extremely clean and refined and water droplets would not hang in it. Only after the Flood whose waters contaminated the world with its influx of sulphur and scorched all living and vegetation matter, which were then absorbed by the earth, did the atmosphere become polluted. This caused the air and clouds to thicken and only then did water drops start clinging in it, causing the rainbow effect.<ref>Shover Zadim Noach based on Tiferes Yonason Berashis 9:12</ref><br />
<br />
===Permitting of Meat===<br />
They were now permitted to eat animal meat which had not been allowed until then, just like they had been permitted to eat vegetation at the time of Adom.<ref>Rashi Berashis 30</ref><br />
<br />
===Genealogy of Shem===<br />
The descendants of Shem are listed to indicate that now the families of Yefes and Cham were considered irrelevant.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/><br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
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{{Weekly Parsha}}<br />
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<div>Parashat Noach<br />
<br />
==Noach's Ark==<br />
===Noach's Family===<br />
Noach was a righteous man, with good deeds,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9">Rashi Berashis 6:9</ref> the main generations of the righteous.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> He was perfect in his generations who walked in the ways of Hashem who encouraged him, unlike Avraham who would strengthened himself in his righteousness.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> If Noach would have lived in the Generation of Avraham in some ways<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach">Shover Zadim Parshas Noach</ref> he would have been more righteous<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> but in other ways<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> he would not have been considered of any importance.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> He was righteous in compression of the 20 from Adom to Avraham but once Avraham appeared Noach was no longer considered righteous.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> <br />
<br />
Noach had three sons; Shem, Cham, and Yafes. Noach's family was listed to indicate that now all the earlier generations were irrelevant.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1">Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1</ref> Nach witnesed the world in three states: Preflood, Flood and Postflood<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1">Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1</ref> and Elifaz Hatimni, Beldad HaShuchi and Tzofer Hanamasi.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> THe name Noach denotes pleasantness, since Noach was pleasant to Hashem, People, Upper Realms, Lower Realms, In This World and in the Next World.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> Noach was very wise.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/><br />
<br />
===World's Perversion===<br />
The world became corrupted with immorality<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11">Rashi Berashis 6:11</ref> idolatry<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11"/> and full of robbery.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11"/> These were all caused by their opposition to the Tzadikim of their generation; Mesushelach and Noach,<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5">Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5</ref> and not receiving their oral teaching of Holiness<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5"/> leading them to twist all the teachings.<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5"/> Hashem saw the corruption and how all creatures including cattle, beasts and birds had corrupted their ways by mating with members of other species.<ref>Rashi Berashis 6:12</ref><br />
<br />
Hashem told Noach that he plans on destroying all life on the world due to their immorality and idolatry which brings death to the world, killing both good and bad.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13">Rashi Berashis 6:13</ref> Despite this their final verdict was sealed only because of mass robbery.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13"/> Even the earth would be destroyed, blotted out and obliterated to the depth of a plowshare, 3 Tefachim,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13"/> roughly a foot (27 cm).<br />
<br />
===Instruction of Ark===<br />
Hashem told Noach to make for himself an ark of gopher wood, which sounds like gophris - sulphur which they were decreed to be destroyed with.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> He should make the ark with compartments which would serve as dwelling places for the domestic animals and wild beasts.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> He was to caulk it both inside and outside with pitch, due to the strength of the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> Moshe's ark which was in calm waters was coated with clay inside and pitch only on the outside.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> Also so the righteous Moshe should not smell the bad odor of pitch.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> <br />
<br />
Noach was to size it: 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high. He was to make a window<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16">Rashi Berashis 6:16</ref> which would server as a skylight for the ark as well as a<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> precious stone, which would generate light.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> <br />
<br />
Its roof should slant upwards narrowing to the width of one cubit which was flat and was not pointed to the end,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> so the waters should run down.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> It should have a door on its side, so that the rain should not enter it. It would have three stories one above the other,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> a bottom for garbage, second story for animal dwelling, and an upper third story for the people.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/><br />
<br />
Although Hashem had many ways to save Noach, he did so through the ark, giving his generation a chance to repent as they inquired about Noach working on it for 120 years and replied that Hashem planed on bringing a flood to the world.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14">Rashi Berashis 6:14</ref><br />
<br />
===Flood Warning===<br />
Hashem announced that He is bringing a flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which there is the spirit of life, from beneath the heavens. Hashem was now ready to agree to the angels who urged Him long ago not to create man.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17">Rashi Berashis 6:17</ref> All that is upon the earth would perish. This flood would wear everything out, mix everything up and move everything from high ground to low ground and floated everything down to Bavel which is deep,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17"/> it was therefore called a בלה, בלבל, הוביל - מבול.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17"/><br />
<br />
Hashem will uphold His covenant with Noach that the fruits will not rot and become moldy<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18">Rashi Berashis 6:18</ref> and that he should not be killed by the wicked of his generation.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18"/> Noach is to enter the ark with his sons, wife and daughter-in-laws, they are prohibited to have marital relations.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18"/><br />
<br />
Noach is to bring with him into the ark at least<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19">Rashi Berashis 6:19</ref> two of each living thing, of all flesh, to preserve their life. These should include one male and one female.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19"/> This included even demons.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19"/> Two from each kind of bird, animal and ground creeper, that did not have relations with other species and corrupts their way,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20">Rashi Berashis 6:20</ref> will come on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20"/> to Noach so he could preserve their life. Those that whom the ark let them enter<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20"/> and did not reject, were to be saved.<br />
<br />
Noach is to take for himself and gather every food that is eaten and it should be for him and them to eat. Noach did according to all that Hashem had commanded him, specifically the building of the ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 6:22</ref><br />
<br />
===Entering Ark Command===<br />
Hashem told Noach to enter the ark along with his household for he has found him a righteous man in his generation. This praise was in front of Noach, therefore Hashem did not call him a 'perfectly righteous man' since we tell only partial praise in a person’s presence and all of it in his absence. <ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:1">Rashi Berashis 7:1</ref><br />
<br />
From all the clean animals Noach should take seven pairs of husband and wife. From the animals that are not clean, Noach should only take two, a single husband and wife. Since Noach studied Torah he knew which animals were going to distained to be pure for the Jewish Nation.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:2">Rashi Berashis 7:2</ref> More kosher animal were taken, so Noach could offer sacrifices from them upon leaving the ark.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:2"/> Also, from the clean<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:3">Rashi Berashis 7:3</ref> birds of the skies, Noach was to take seven pairs, male and female, to keep their seed alive on the face of the earth.<br />
<br />
Hashem declared that in another seven days, He will make it rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights, and He will blot out all beings that He created off the face of the earth. Hashem took into consideration the honor of the tzadik Mesushelach who had passed away when Noach turned 600 and delayed the retribution for an additional<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> seven days of his mourning,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4">Rashi Berashis 7:4</ref> above the originally decreed 120 year period.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> A flood of 40 days was decreed upon them, corresponding to the 40 days it takes to form a fetus, as retribution for burdening their Creator to to form illegitimate children.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> <br />
<br />
Noach did all that Hashem commanded him and entered the Ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 7:5</ref><br />
<br />
===Entering the Ark===<br />
Noach was 600 years old when the when the waters flooded the earth. Noach, his 3 sons, his wife and 3 daughter-in-laws entered the ark because of the waters of the flood. The men entered separately from the women to symbolize that it they were prohibited to have martital relations while the world what suffering.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:7">Rashi Berashis 7:7</ref> Noach had little faith and was not fully certain the flood would take place, he therefore did not enter the ark until he was forced to by the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:7"/> Sets of two, male and female from the clean animals, unclean animals, birds and land creeps arrived on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:9">Rashi Berashis 7:9</ref> to Noach and the ark, just like Hashem commanded. At least one set of two arrived from each species.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:9"/><br />
<br />
The people of his generation threatened to kill Noach and break the ark, if they see him entering it. Hashem announced that he would bring Noach into the ark before their eyes and they would see whose plan prevailed.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:13">Rashi Berashis 7:13</ref> Therefore Noach entered the ark in middle of the day with his sons; Shem, Cham and Yefes, along with his wife and the daughter in laws. They were accompanied by every type of beast, domestic animal, land creeper, birds and flying creatures with appearance of feathers,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:14"/> including locusts. <ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:14">Rashi Berashis 7:14</ref> All flesh that contained spirit of life, came in sets of two, male and female to Noach and the ark, as Hashem had commanded him. Hashem then shut him in the ark, sealing it from water<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:16"/> and protecting him from the masses who wanted to break the ark by surrounding it with bear and lions who would kill them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:16">Rashi Berashis 7:16</ref><br />
<br />
==The Flood==<br />
After the seven day extension, on the 600th year of Noach's life, on the 17th of the second month of the year (Which was either Cheshvon or Iyar),<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11">Rashi Berashis 7:11</ref> all the springs of the great depths ruptured to emit their waters<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11"/> and the portals of the sky opened bringing the flood waters upon the earth. Sine that generation had sinned with 'great' evil they were now punished measure for measure with the waters of the 'great' depths.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11"/><br />
<br />
Hashem began the flood with mercy bringdown light rains that would have concluded as rains of blessing had they repented. When they did not, it turned into a flood.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12">Rashi Berashis 7:12</ref> There was rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights, lasting until the 28th of Kislev<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/> (12 Cheshvon + 28 Kislev).<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/> In truth, it rained for 41 days but the first was not counted since it did not rain during its proceeding night.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/><br />
<br />
When the forty days of flood upon the earth began, the waters increased and lifted the ark, and raising it off the earth. Like all loaded ships, the bottom of the ark remained submerged 11 cubits in the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:17">Rashi Berashis 7:17</ref> The waters became powerful, greatly increased on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:18">Rashi Berashis 7:18</ref> upon the earth, the ark moving above the waters. When the waters became exceedingly powerful upon the earth, all the tall mountains found under the heavens, became covered by water. The mountains were covered by an additional 15 cubits of water above their highest peaks.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:20">Rashi Berashis 7:20</ref><br />
<br />
===Destruction of Life===<br />
All flesh perished that moved upon the earth, including all birds, cattle, beasts, creeping creatures that creep upon the earth and all humans. Everything that breathed the spirit of life in its nostrils,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:22">Rashi Berashis 7:22</ref> that were on dry land died. However the fish that were in the ocean did not die.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:22"/><br />
<br />
<br />
The Flood<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23">Rashi Berashis 7:23</ref> obliterated all beings that were upon the face of the earth, including man, animal, birds of the skys and creeping things. They were obliterated from the earth. Only Noach and those with him in the ark survived. Although Noach survived, it was rough experience for him as well. He was groaning and spitting blood because of the burden taking care of the cattle and beasts.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/> He was also wounded after the lion struck him when he delayed feeding it.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/> This was to eradicate any misdoings of Noach while still in This World, so he would not be punished in the next.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/><br />
<br />
==Ending of Flood==<br />
The water prevailed upon the earth for one hundred and fifty days. Hashem remembered Noach and all the beasts and cattle that were with him in the ark. This was due to the prayers of Noach and his sons that transformed the Divine attribute of Justice into the attribute of mercy.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 8:1">Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> Hashem also remembered the merits of the animals, that they did not corrupt their ways before the flood and that they did not have marital relationships in ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> Hashem passed a spirit of consolation and calm before Him<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> regarding the events<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> of the earth, calming the anger<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> and the waters subsided.<br />
<br />
===Rainbows===<br />
Rainbows are caused by light refracting and dispersing through airborne droplets of water. Before the Flood, the atmosphere air was extremely clean and refined and water droplets would not hang in it. Only after the Flood whose waters contaminated the world with an influx of and its influx of sulphur and scorched all living and vegetation matter, which were then absorbed by the earth, did the atmosphere become polluted. This caused the air and clouds to thicken and only then did water drops start clinging in it, causing the rainbow effect.<ref>Shover Zadim Noach based on Tiferes Yonason Berashis 9:12</ref><br />
<br />
===Permitting of Meat===<br />
They were now permitted to eat animal meat which had not been allowed until then, just like they had been permitted to eat vegetation at the time of Adom.<ref>Rashi Berashis 30</ref><br />
<br />
===Genealogy of Shem===<br />
The descendants of Shem are listed to indicate that now the families of Yefes and Cham were considered irrelevant.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/><br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
<br />
{{Weekly Parsha}}<br />
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[[Category:Parsha]]</div>Dunhttp://zissil.com/topics/Parashat-NoachParashat-Noach2021-10-09T19:57:19Z<p>Dun: /* Ending of Flood */</p>
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<div>Parashat Noach<br />
<br />
==Noach's Ark==<br />
===Noach's Family===<br />
Noach was a righteous man, with good deeds,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9">Rashi Berashis 6:9</ref> the main generations of the righteous.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> He was perfect in his generations who walked in the ways of Hashem who encouraged him, unlike Avraham who would strengthened himself in his righteousness.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> If Noach would have lived in the Generation of Avraham in some ways<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach">Shover Zadim Parshas Noach</ref> he would have been more righteous<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> but in other ways<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> he would not have been considered of any importance.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> He was righteous in compression of the 20 from Adom to Avraham but once Avraham appeared Noach was no longer considered righteous.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> <br />
<br />
Noach had three sons; Shem, Cham, and Yafes. Noach's family was listed to indicate that now all the earlier generations were irrelevant.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1">Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1</ref> Nach witnesed the world in three states: Preflood, Flood and Postflood<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1">Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1</ref> and Elifaz Hatimni, Beldad HaShuchi and Tzofer Hanamasi.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> THe name Noach denotes pleasantness, since Noach was pleasant to Hashem, People, Upper Realms, Lower Realms, In This World and in the Next World.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> Noach was very wise.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/><br />
<br />
===World's Perversion===<br />
The world became corrupted with immorality<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11">Rashi Berashis 6:11</ref> idolatry<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11"/> and full of robbery.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11"/> These were all caused by their opposition to the Tzadikim of their generation; Mesushelach and Noach,<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5">Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5</ref> and not receiving their oral teaching of Holiness<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5"/> leading them to twist all the teachings.<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5"/> Hashem saw the corruption and how all creatures including cattle, beasts and birds had corrupted their ways by mating with members of other species.<ref>Rashi Berashis 6:12</ref><br />
<br />
Hashem told Noach that he plans on destroying all life on the world due to their immorality and idolatry which brings death to the world, killing both good and bad.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13">Rashi Berashis 6:13</ref> Despite this their final verdict was sealed only because of mass robbery.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13"/> Even the earth would be destroyed, blotted out and obliterated to the depth of a plowshare, 3 Tefachim,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13"/> roughly a foot (27 cm).<br />
<br />
===Instruction of Ark===<br />
Hashem told Noach to make for himself an ark of gopher wood, which sounds like gophris - sulphur which they were decreed to be destroyed with.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> He should make the ark with compartments which would serve as dwelling places for the domestic animals and wild beasts.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> He was to caulk it both inside and outside with pitch, due to the strength of the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> Moshe's ark which was in calm waters was coated with clay inside and pitch only on the outside.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> Also so the righteous Moshe should not smell the bad odor of pitch.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> <br />
<br />
Noach was to size it: 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high. He was to make a window<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16">Rashi Berashis 6:16</ref> which would server as a skylight for the ark as well as a<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> precious stone, which would generate light.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> <br />
<br />
Its roof should slant upwards narrowing to the width of one cubit which was flat and was not pointed to the end,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> so the waters should run down.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> It should have a door on its side, so that the rain should not enter it. It would have three stories one above the other,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> a bottom for garbage, second story for animal dwelling, and an upper third story for the people.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/><br />
<br />
Although Hashem had many ways to save Noach, he did so through the ark, giving his generation a chance to repent as they inquired about Noach working on it for 120 years and replied that Hashem planed on bringing a flood to the world.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14">Rashi Berashis 6:14</ref><br />
<br />
===Flood Warning===<br />
Hashem announced that He is bringing a flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which there is the spirit of life, from beneath the heavens. Hashem was now ready to agree to the angels who urged Him long ago not to create man.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17">Rashi Berashis 6:17</ref> All that is upon the earth would perish. This flood would wear everything out, mix everything up and move everything from high ground to low ground and floated everything down to Bavel which is deep,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17"/> it was therefore called a בלה, בלבל, הוביל - מבול.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17"/><br />
<br />
Hashem will uphold His covenant with Noach that the fruits will not rot and become moldy<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18">Rashi Berashis 6:18</ref> and that he should not be killed by the wicked of his generation.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18"/> Noach is to enter the ark with his sons, wife and daughter-in-laws, they are prohibited to have marital relations.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18"/><br />
<br />
Noach is to bring with him into the ark at least<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19">Rashi Berashis 6:19</ref> two of each living thing, of all flesh, to preserve their life. These should include one male and one female.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19"/> This included even demons.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19"/> Two from each kind of bird, animal and ground creeper, that did not have relations with other species and corrupts their way,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20">Rashi Berashis 6:20</ref> will come on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20"/> to Noach so he could preserve their life. Those that whom the ark let them enter<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20"/> and did not reject, were to be saved.<br />
<br />
Noach is to take for himself and gather every food that is eaten and it should be for him and them to eat. Noach did according to all that Hashem had commanded him, specifically the building of the ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 6:22</ref><br />
<br />
===Entering Ark Command===<br />
Hashem told Noach to enter the ark along with his household for he has found him a righteous man in his generation. This praise was in front of Noach, therefore Hashem did not call him a 'perfectly righteous man' since we tell only partial praise in a person’s presence and all of it in his absence. <ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:1">Rashi Berashis 7:1</ref><br />
<br />
From all the clean animals Noach should take seven pairs of husband and wife. From the animals that are not clean, Noach should only take two, a single husband and wife. Since Noach studied Torah he knew which animals were going to distained to be pure for the Jewish Nation.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:2">Rashi Berashis 7:2</ref> More kosher animal were taken, so Noach could offer sacrifices from them upon leaving the ark.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:2"/> Also, from the clean<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:3">Rashi Berashis 7:3</ref> birds of the skies, Noach was to take seven pairs, male and female, to keep their seed alive on the face of the earth.<br />
<br />
Hashem declared that in another seven days, He will make it rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights, and He will blot out all beings that He created off the face of the earth. Hashem took into consideration the honor of the tzadik Mesushelach who had passed away when Noach turned 600 and delayed the retribution for an additional<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> seven days of his mourning,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4">Rashi Berashis 7:4</ref> above the originally decreed 120 year period.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> A flood of 40 days was decreed upon them, corresponding to the 40 days it takes to form a fetus, as retribution for burdening their Creator to to form illegitimate children.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> <br />
<br />
Noach did all that Hashem commanded him and entered the Ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 7:5</ref><br />
<br />
===Entering the Ark===<br />
Noach was 600 years old when the when the waters flooded the earth. Noach, his 3 sons, his wife and 3 daughter-in-laws entered the ark because of the waters of the flood. The men entered separately from the women to symbolize that it they were prohibited to have martital relations while the world what suffering.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:7">Rashi Berashis 7:7</ref> Noach had little faith and was not fully certain the flood would take place, he therefore did not enter the ark until he was forced to by the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:7"/> Sets of two, male and female from the clean animals, unclean animals, birds and land creeps arrived on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:9">Rashi Berashis 7:9</ref> to Noach and the ark, just like Hashem commanded. At least one set of two arrived from each species.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:9"/><br />
<br />
The people of his generation threatened to kill Noach and break the ark, if they see him entering it. Hashem announced that he would bring Noach into the ark before their eyes and they would see whose plan prevailed.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:13">Rashi Berashis 7:13</ref> Therefore Noach entered the ark in middle of the day with his sons; Shem, Cham and Yefes, along with his wife and the daughter in laws. They were accompanied by every type of beast, domestic animal, land creeper, birds and flying creatures with appearance of feathers,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:14"/> including locusts. <ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:14">Rashi Berashis 7:14</ref> All flesh that contained spirit of life, came in sets of two, male and female to Noach and the ark, as Hashem had commanded him. Hashem then shut him in the ark, sealing it from water<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:16"/> and protecting him from the masses who wanted to break the ark by surrounding it with bear and lions who would kill them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:16">Rashi Berashis 7:16</ref><br />
<br />
==The Flood==<br />
After the seven day extension, on the 600th year of Noach's life, on the 17th of the second month of the year (Which was either Cheshvon or Iyar),<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11">Rashi Berashis 7:11</ref> all the springs of the great depths ruptured to emit their waters<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11"/> and the portals of the sky opened bringing the flood waters upon the earth. Sine that generation had sinned with 'great' evil they were now punished measure for measure with the waters of the 'great' depths.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11"/><br />
<br />
Hashem began the flood with mercy bringdown light rains that would have concluded as rains of blessing had they repented. When they did not, it turned into a flood.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12">Rashi Berashis 7:12</ref> There was rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights, lasting until the 28th of Kislev<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/> (12 Cheshvon + 28 Kislev).<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/> In truth, it rained for 41 days but the first was not counted since it did not rain during its proceeding night.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/><br />
<br />
When the forty days of flood upon the earth began, the waters increased and lifted the ark, and raising it off the earth. Like all loaded ships, the bottom of the ark remained submerged 11 cubits in the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:17">Rashi Berashis 7:17</ref> The waters became powerful, greatly increased on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:18">Rashi Berashis 7:18</ref> upon the earth, the ark moving above the waters. When the waters became exceedingly powerful upon the earth, all the tall mountains found under the heavens, became covered by water. The mountains were covered by an additional 15 cubits of water above their highest peaks.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:20">Rashi Berashis 7:20</ref><br />
<br />
===Destruction of Life===<br />
All flesh perished that moved upon the earth, including all birds, cattle, beasts, creeping creatures that creep upon the earth and all humans. Everything that breathed the spirit of life in its nostrils,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:22">Rashi Berashis 7:22</ref> that were on dry land died. However the fish that were in the ocean did not die.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:22"/><br />
<br />
<br />
The Flood<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23">Rashi Berashis 7:23</ref> obliterated all beings that were upon the face of the earth, including man, animal, birds of the skys and creeping things. They were obliterated from the earth. Only Noach and those with him in the ark survived. Although Noach survived, it was rough experience for him as well. He was groaning and spitting blood because of the burden taking care of the cattle and beasts.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/> He was also wounded after the lion struck him when he delayed feeding it.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/> This was to eradicate any misdoings of Noach while still in This World, so he would not be punished in the next.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/><br />
<br />
==Ending of Flood==<br />
The water prevailed upon the earth for one hundred and fifty days. Hashem remembered Noach and all the beasts and cattle that were with him in the ark. This was due to the prayers of Noach and his sons that transformed the Divine attribute of Justice into the attribute of mercy.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 8:1">Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> Hashem also remembered the merits of the animals, that they did not corrupt their ways before the flood and that they did not have marital relationships in ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> Hashem passed a spirit of consolation and calm before Him<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> regarding the events<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> of the earth, calming the anger<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> and the waters subsided.<br />
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===Rainbows===<br />
Rainbows are caused by light refracting and dispersing through airborne droplets of water. Before the Flood, the atmosphere air was extremely clean and refined and water droplets would not hang in it. Only after the flood which scorched all living and vegetation matter which were then absorbed by the earth, did the atmosphere become polluted. The caused the air and clouds to thicken and only then did water drops start clinging in it, causing the rainbow effect. <br />
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===Permitting of Meat===<br />
They were now permitted to eat animal meat which had not been allowed until then, just like they had been permitted to eat vegetation at the time of Adom.<ref>Rashi Berashis 30</ref><br />
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===Genealogy of Shem===<br />
The descendants of Shem are listed to indicate that now the families of Yefes and Cham were considered irrelevant.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/><br />
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==References==<br />
<references/><br />
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[[Category:Parsha]]</div>Dunhttp://zissil.com/topics/Parashat-NoachParashat-Noach2021-10-09T18:52:30Z<p>Dun: /* Ending of Flood */</p>
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<div>Parashat Noach<br />
<br />
==Noach's Ark==<br />
===Noach's Family===<br />
Noach was a righteous man, with good deeds,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9">Rashi Berashis 6:9</ref> the main generations of the righteous.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> He was perfect in his generations who walked in the ways of Hashem who encouraged him, unlike Avraham who would strengthened himself in his righteousness.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> If Noach would have lived in the Generation of Avraham in some ways<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach">Shover Zadim Parshas Noach</ref> he would have been more righteous<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> but in other ways<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> he would not have been considered of any importance.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> He was righteous in compression of the 20 from Adom to Avraham but once Avraham appeared Noach was no longer considered righteous.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> <br />
<br />
Noach had three sons; Shem, Cham, and Yafes. Noach's family was listed to indicate that now all the earlier generations were irrelevant.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1">Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1</ref> Nach witnesed the world in three states: Preflood, Flood and Postflood<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1">Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1</ref> and Elifaz Hatimni, Beldad HaShuchi and Tzofer Hanamasi.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> THe name Noach denotes pleasantness, since Noach was pleasant to Hashem, People, Upper Realms, Lower Realms, In This World and in the Next World.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> Noach was very wise.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/><br />
<br />
===World's Perversion===<br />
The world became corrupted with immorality<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11">Rashi Berashis 6:11</ref> idolatry<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11"/> and full of robbery.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11"/> These were all caused by their opposition to the Tzadikim of their generation; Mesushelach and Noach,<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5">Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5</ref> and not receiving their oral teaching of Holiness<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5"/> leading them to twist all the teachings.<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5"/> Hashem saw the corruption and how all creatures including cattle, beasts and birds had corrupted their ways by mating with members of other species.<ref>Rashi Berashis 6:12</ref><br />
<br />
Hashem told Noach that he plans on destroying all life on the world due to their immorality and idolatry which brings death to the world, killing both good and bad.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13">Rashi Berashis 6:13</ref> Despite this their final verdict was sealed only because of mass robbery.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13"/> Even the earth would be destroyed, blotted out and obliterated to the depth of a plowshare, 3 Tefachim,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13"/> roughly a foot (27 cm).<br />
<br />
===Instruction of Ark===<br />
Hashem told Noach to make for himself an ark of gopher wood, which sounds like gophris - sulphur which they were decreed to be destroyed with.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> He should make the ark with compartments which would serve as dwelling places for the domestic animals and wild beasts.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> He was to caulk it both inside and outside with pitch, due to the strength of the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> Moshe's ark which was in calm waters was coated with clay inside and pitch only on the outside.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> Also so the righteous Moshe should not smell the bad odor of pitch.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> <br />
<br />
Noach was to size it: 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high. He was to make a window<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16">Rashi Berashis 6:16</ref> which would server as a skylight for the ark as well as a<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> precious stone, which would generate light.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> <br />
<br />
Its roof should slant upwards narrowing to the width of one cubit which was flat and was not pointed to the end,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> so the waters should run down.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> It should have a door on its side, so that the rain should not enter it. It would have three stories one above the other,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> a bottom for garbage, second story for animal dwelling, and an upper third story for the people.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/><br />
<br />
Although Hashem had many ways to save Noach, he did so through the ark, giving his generation a chance to repent as they inquired about Noach working on it for 120 years and replied that Hashem planed on bringing a flood to the world.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14">Rashi Berashis 6:14</ref><br />
<br />
===Flood Warning===<br />
Hashem announced that He is bringing a flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which there is the spirit of life, from beneath the heavens. Hashem was now ready to agree to the angels who urged Him long ago not to create man.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17">Rashi Berashis 6:17</ref> All that is upon the earth would perish. This flood would wear everything out, mix everything up and move everything from high ground to low ground and floated everything down to Bavel which is deep,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17"/> it was therefore called a בלה, בלבל, הוביל - מבול.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17"/><br />
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Hashem will uphold His covenant with Noach that the fruits will not rot and become moldy<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18">Rashi Berashis 6:18</ref> and that he should not be killed by the wicked of his generation.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18"/> Noach is to enter the ark with his sons, wife and daughter-in-laws, they are prohibited to have marital relations.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18"/><br />
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Noach is to bring with him into the ark at least<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19">Rashi Berashis 6:19</ref> two of each living thing, of all flesh, to preserve their life. These should include one male and one female.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19"/> This included even demons.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19"/> Two from each kind of bird, animal and ground creeper, that did not have relations with other species and corrupts their way,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20">Rashi Berashis 6:20</ref> will come on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20"/> to Noach so he could preserve their life. Those that whom the ark let them enter<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20"/> and did not reject, were to be saved.<br />
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Noach is to take for himself and gather every food that is eaten and it should be for him and them to eat. Noach did according to all that Hashem had commanded him, specifically the building of the ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 6:22</ref><br />
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===Entering Ark Command===<br />
Hashem told Noach to enter the ark along with his household for he has found him a righteous man in his generation. This praise was in front of Noach, therefore Hashem did not call him a 'perfectly righteous man' since we tell only partial praise in a person’s presence and all of it in his absence. <ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:1">Rashi Berashis 7:1</ref><br />
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From all the clean animals Noach should take seven pairs of husband and wife. From the animals that are not clean, Noach should only take two, a single husband and wife. Since Noach studied Torah he knew which animals were going to distained to be pure for the Jewish Nation.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:2">Rashi Berashis 7:2</ref> More kosher animal were taken, so Noach could offer sacrifices from them upon leaving the ark.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:2"/> Also, from the clean<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:3">Rashi Berashis 7:3</ref> birds of the skies, Noach was to take seven pairs, male and female, to keep their seed alive on the face of the earth.<br />
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Hashem declared that in another seven days, He will make it rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights, and He will blot out all beings that He created off the face of the earth. Hashem took into consideration the honor of the tzadik Mesushelach who had passed away when Noach turned 600 and delayed the retribution for an additional<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> seven days of his mourning,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4">Rashi Berashis 7:4</ref> above the originally decreed 120 year period.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> A flood of 40 days was decreed upon them, corresponding to the 40 days it takes to form a fetus, as retribution for burdening their Creator to to form illegitimate children.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> <br />
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Noach did all that Hashem commanded him and entered the Ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 7:5</ref><br />
<br />
===Entering the Ark===<br />
Noach was 600 years old when the when the waters flooded the earth. Noach, his 3 sons, his wife and 3 daughter-in-laws entered the ark because of the waters of the flood. The men entered separately from the women to symbolize that it they were prohibited to have martital relations while the world what suffering.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:7">Rashi Berashis 7:7</ref> Noach had little faith and was not fully certain the flood would take place, he therefore did not enter the ark until he was forced to by the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:7"/> Sets of two, male and female from the clean animals, unclean animals, birds and land creeps arrived on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:9">Rashi Berashis 7:9</ref> to Noach and the ark, just like Hashem commanded. At least one set of two arrived from each species.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:9"/><br />
<br />
The people of his generation threatened to kill Noach and break the ark, if they see him entering it. Hashem announced that he would bring Noach into the ark before their eyes and they would see whose plan prevailed.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:13">Rashi Berashis 7:13</ref> Therefore Noach entered the ark in middle of the day with his sons; Shem, Cham and Yefes, along with his wife and the daughter in laws. They were accompanied by every type of beast, domestic animal, land creeper, birds and flying creatures with appearance of feathers,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:14"/> including locusts. <ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:14">Rashi Berashis 7:14</ref> All flesh that contained spirit of life, came in sets of two, male and female to Noach and the ark, as Hashem had commanded him. Hashem then shut him in the ark, sealing it from water<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:16"/> and protecting him from the masses who wanted to break the ark by surrounding it with bear and lions who would kill them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:16">Rashi Berashis 7:16</ref><br />
<br />
==The Flood==<br />
After the seven day extension, on the 600th year of Noach's life, on the 17th of the second month of the year (Which was either Cheshvon or Iyar),<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11">Rashi Berashis 7:11</ref> all the springs of the great depths ruptured to emit their waters<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11"/> and the portals of the sky opened bringing the flood waters upon the earth. Sine that generation had sinned with 'great' evil they were now punished measure for measure with the waters of the 'great' depths.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11"/><br />
<br />
Hashem began the flood with mercy bringdown light rains that would have concluded as rains of blessing had they repented. When they did not, it turned into a flood.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12">Rashi Berashis 7:12</ref> There was rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights, lasting until the 28th of Kislev<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/> (12 Cheshvon + 28 Kislev).<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/> In truth, it rained for 41 days but the first was not counted since it did not rain during its proceeding night.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/><br />
<br />
When the forty days of flood upon the earth began, the waters increased and lifted the ark, and raising it off the earth. Like all loaded ships, the bottom of the ark remained submerged 11 cubits in the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:17">Rashi Berashis 7:17</ref> The waters became powerful, greatly increased on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:18">Rashi Berashis 7:18</ref> upon the earth, the ark moving above the waters. When the waters became exceedingly powerful upon the earth, all the tall mountains found under the heavens, became covered by water. The mountains were covered by an additional 15 cubits of water above their highest peaks.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:20">Rashi Berashis 7:20</ref><br />
<br />
===Destruction of Life===<br />
All flesh perished that moved upon the earth, including all birds, cattle, beasts, creeping creatures that creep upon the earth and all humans. Everything that breathed the spirit of life in its nostrils,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:22">Rashi Berashis 7:22</ref> that were on dry land died. However the fish that were in the ocean did not die.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:22"/><br />
<br />
<br />
The Flood<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23">Rashi Berashis 7:23</ref> obliterated all beings that were upon the face of the earth, including man, animal, birds of the skys and creeping things. They were obliterated from the earth. Only Noach and those with him in the ark survived. Although Noach survived, it was rough experience for him as well. He was groaning and spitting blood because of the burden taking care of the cattle and beasts.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/> He was also wounded after the lion struck him when he delayed feeding it.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/> This was to eradicate any misdoings of Noach while still in This World, so he would not be punished in the next.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/><br />
<br />
==Ending of Flood==<br />
The water prevailed upon the earth for one hundred and fifty days. Hashem remembered Noach and all the beasts and cattle that were with him in the ark. This was due to the prayers of Noach and his sons that transformed the Divine attribute of Justice into the attribute of mercy.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 8:1">Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> Hashem also remembered the merits of the animals, that they did not corrupt their ways before the flood and that they did not have marital relationships in ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> Hashem passed a spirit of consolation and calm before Him<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> regarding the events<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> of the earth, calming the anger<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> and the waters subsided.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Permitting of Meat===<br />
They were now permitted to eat animal meat which had not been allowed until then, just like they had been permitted to eat vegetation at the time of Adom.<ref>Rashi Berashis 30</ref><br />
<br />
===Genealogy of Shem===<br />
The descendants of Shem are listed to indicate that now the families of Yefes and Cham were considered irrelevant.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/><br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
<br />
{{Weekly Parsha}}<br />
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[[Category:Parsha]]</div>Dunhttp://zissil.com/topics/Parashat-NoachParashat-Noach2021-10-09T18:48:20Z<p>Dun: /* Ending of Flood */</p>
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<div>Parashat Noach<br />
<br />
==Noach's Ark==<br />
===Noach's Family===<br />
Noach was a righteous man, with good deeds,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9">Rashi Berashis 6:9</ref> the main generations of the righteous.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> He was perfect in his generations who walked in the ways of Hashem who encouraged him, unlike Avraham who would strengthened himself in his righteousness.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> If Noach would have lived in the Generation of Avraham in some ways<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach">Shover Zadim Parshas Noach</ref> he would have been more righteous<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> but in other ways<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> he would not have been considered of any importance.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> He was righteous in compression of the 20 from Adom to Avraham but once Avraham appeared Noach was no longer considered righteous.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> <br />
<br />
Noach had three sons; Shem, Cham, and Yafes. Noach's family was listed to indicate that now all the earlier generations were irrelevant.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1">Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1</ref> Nach witnesed the world in three states: Preflood, Flood and Postflood<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1">Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1</ref> and Elifaz Hatimni, Beldad HaShuchi and Tzofer Hanamasi.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> THe name Noach denotes pleasantness, since Noach was pleasant to Hashem, People, Upper Realms, Lower Realms, In This World and in the Next World.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> Noach was very wise.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/><br />
<br />
===World's Perversion===<br />
The world became corrupted with immorality<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11">Rashi Berashis 6:11</ref> idolatry<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11"/> and full of robbery.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11"/> These were all caused by their opposition to the Tzadikim of their generation; Mesushelach and Noach,<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5">Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5</ref> and not receiving their oral teaching of Holiness<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5"/> leading them to twist all the teachings.<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5"/> Hashem saw the corruption and how all creatures including cattle, beasts and birds had corrupted their ways by mating with members of other species.<ref>Rashi Berashis 6:12</ref><br />
<br />
Hashem told Noach that he plans on destroying all life on the world due to their immorality and idolatry which brings death to the world, killing both good and bad.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13">Rashi Berashis 6:13</ref> Despite this their final verdict was sealed only because of mass robbery.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13"/> Even the earth would be destroyed, blotted out and obliterated to the depth of a plowshare, 3 Tefachim,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13"/> roughly a foot (27 cm).<br />
<br />
===Instruction of Ark===<br />
Hashem told Noach to make for himself an ark of gopher wood, which sounds like gophris - sulphur which they were decreed to be destroyed with.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> He should make the ark with compartments which would serve as dwelling places for the domestic animals and wild beasts.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> He was to caulk it both inside and outside with pitch, due to the strength of the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> Moshe's ark which was in calm waters was coated with clay inside and pitch only on the outside.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> Also so the righteous Moshe should not smell the bad odor of pitch.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> <br />
<br />
Noach was to size it: 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high. He was to make a window<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16">Rashi Berashis 6:16</ref> which would server as a skylight for the ark as well as a<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> precious stone, which would generate light.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> <br />
<br />
Its roof should slant upwards narrowing to the width of one cubit which was flat and was not pointed to the end,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> so the waters should run down.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> It should have a door on its side, so that the rain should not enter it. It would have three stories one above the other,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> a bottom for garbage, second story for animal dwelling, and an upper third story for the people.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/><br />
<br />
Although Hashem had many ways to save Noach, he did so through the ark, giving his generation a chance to repent as they inquired about Noach working on it for 120 years and replied that Hashem planed on bringing a flood to the world.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14">Rashi Berashis 6:14</ref><br />
<br />
===Flood Warning===<br />
Hashem announced that He is bringing a flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which there is the spirit of life, from beneath the heavens. Hashem was now ready to agree to the angels who urged Him long ago not to create man.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17">Rashi Berashis 6:17</ref> All that is upon the earth would perish. This flood would wear everything out, mix everything up and move everything from high ground to low ground and floated everything down to Bavel which is deep,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17"/> it was therefore called a בלה, בלבל, הוביל - מבול.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17"/><br />
<br />
Hashem will uphold His covenant with Noach that the fruits will not rot and become moldy<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18">Rashi Berashis 6:18</ref> and that he should not be killed by the wicked of his generation.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18"/> Noach is to enter the ark with his sons, wife and daughter-in-laws, they are prohibited to have marital relations.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18"/><br />
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Noach is to bring with him into the ark at least<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19">Rashi Berashis 6:19</ref> two of each living thing, of all flesh, to preserve their life. These should include one male and one female.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19"/> This included even demons.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19"/> Two from each kind of bird, animal and ground creeper, that did not have relations with other species and corrupts their way,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20">Rashi Berashis 6:20</ref> will come on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20"/> to Noach so he could preserve their life. Those that whom the ark let them enter<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20"/> and did not reject, were to be saved.<br />
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Noach is to take for himself and gather every food that is eaten and it should be for him and them to eat. Noach did according to all that Hashem had commanded him, specifically the building of the ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 6:22</ref><br />
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===Entering Ark Command===<br />
Hashem told Noach to enter the ark along with his household for he has found him a righteous man in his generation. This praise was in front of Noach, therefore Hashem did not call him a 'perfectly righteous man' since we tell only partial praise in a person’s presence and all of it in his absence. <ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:1">Rashi Berashis 7:1</ref><br />
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From all the clean animals Noach should take seven pairs of husband and wife. From the animals that are not clean, Noach should only take two, a single husband and wife. Since Noach studied Torah he knew which animals were going to distained to be pure for the Jewish Nation.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:2">Rashi Berashis 7:2</ref> More kosher animal were taken, so Noach could offer sacrifices from them upon leaving the ark.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:2"/> Also, from the clean<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:3">Rashi Berashis 7:3</ref> birds of the skies, Noach was to take seven pairs, male and female, to keep their seed alive on the face of the earth.<br />
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Hashem declared that in another seven days, He will make it rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights, and He will blot out all beings that He created off the face of the earth. Hashem took into consideration the honor of the tzadik Mesushelach who had passed away when Noach turned 600 and delayed the retribution for an additional<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> seven days of his mourning,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4">Rashi Berashis 7:4</ref> above the originally decreed 120 year period.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> A flood of 40 days was decreed upon them, corresponding to the 40 days it takes to form a fetus, as retribution for burdening their Creator to to form illegitimate children.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> <br />
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Noach did all that Hashem commanded him and entered the Ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 7:5</ref><br />
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===Entering the Ark===<br />
Noach was 600 years old when the when the waters flooded the earth. Noach, his 3 sons, his wife and 3 daughter-in-laws entered the ark because of the waters of the flood. The men entered separately from the women to symbolize that it they were prohibited to have martital relations while the world what suffering.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:7">Rashi Berashis 7:7</ref> Noach had little faith and was not fully certain the flood would take place, he therefore did not enter the ark until he was forced to by the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:7"/> Sets of two, male and female from the clean animals, unclean animals, birds and land creeps arrived on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:9">Rashi Berashis 7:9</ref> to Noach and the ark, just like Hashem commanded. At least one set of two arrived from each species.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:9"/><br />
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The people of his generation threatened to kill Noach and break the ark, if they see him entering it. Hashem announced that he would bring Noach into the ark before their eyes and they would see whose plan prevailed.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:13">Rashi Berashis 7:13</ref> Therefore Noach entered the ark in middle of the day with his sons; Shem, Cham and Yefes, along with his wife and the daughter in laws. They were accompanied by every type of beast, domestic animal, land creeper, birds and flying creatures with appearance of feathers,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:14"/> including locusts. <ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:14">Rashi Berashis 7:14</ref> All flesh that contained spirit of life, came in sets of two, male and female to Noach and the ark, as Hashem had commanded him. Hashem then shut him in the ark, sealing it from water<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:16"/> and protecting him from the masses who wanted to break the ark by surrounding it with bear and lions who would kill them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:16">Rashi Berashis 7:16</ref><br />
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==The Flood==<br />
After the seven day extension, on the 600th year of Noach's life, on the 17th of the second month of the year (Which was either Cheshvon or Iyar),<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11">Rashi Berashis 7:11</ref> all the springs of the great depths ruptured to emit their waters<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11"/> and the portals of the sky opened bringing the flood waters upon the earth. Sine that generation had sinned with 'great' evil they were now punished measure for measure with the waters of the 'great' depths.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11"/><br />
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Hashem began the flood with mercy bringdown light rains that would have concluded as rains of blessing had they repented. When they did not, it turned into a flood.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12">Rashi Berashis 7:12</ref> There was rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights, lasting until the 28th of Kislev<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/> (12 Cheshvon + 28 Kislev).<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/> In truth, it rained for 41 days but the first was not counted since it did not rain during its proceeding night.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/><br />
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When the forty days of flood upon the earth began, the waters increased and lifted the ark, and raising it off the earth. Like all loaded ships, the bottom of the ark remained submerged 11 cubits in the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:17">Rashi Berashis 7:17</ref> The waters became powerful, greatly increased on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:18">Rashi Berashis 7:18</ref> upon the earth, the ark moving above the waters. When the waters became exceedingly powerful upon the earth, all the tall mountains found under the heavens, became covered by water. The mountains were covered by an additional 15 cubits of water above their highest peaks.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:20">Rashi Berashis 7:20</ref><br />
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===Destruction of Life===<br />
All flesh perished that moved upon the earth, including all birds, cattle, beasts, creeping creatures that creep upon the earth and all humans. Everything that breathed the spirit of life in its nostrils,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:22">Rashi Berashis 7:22</ref> that were on dry land died. However the fish that were in the ocean did not die.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:22"/><br />
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The Flood<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23">Rashi Berashis 7:23</ref> obliterated all beings that were upon the face of the earth, including man, animal, birds of the skys and creeping things. They were obliterated from the earth. Only Noach and those with him in the ark survived. Although Noach survived, it was rough experience for him as well. He was groaning and spitting blood because of the burden taking care of the cattle and beasts.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/> He was also wounded after the lion struck him when he delayed feeding it.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/> This was to eradicate any misdoings of Noach while still in This World, so he would not be punished in the next.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/><br />
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==Ending of Flood==<br />
The water prevailed upon the earth for one hundred and fifty days. Hashem remembered Noach and all the beasts and cattle that were with him in the ark. This was due to the prayers of Noach and his sons that transformed the Divine attribute of Justice into the attribute of mercy.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 8:1">Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> Hashem also remembered the merits of the animals, that they did not corrupt their ways before the flood and that they did not have marital relationships in ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> Hashem passed a spirit over the earth and the waters subsided.<br />
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===Permitting of Meat===<br />
They were now permitted to eat animal meat which had not been allowed until then, just like they had been permitted to eat vegetation at the time of Adom.<ref>Rashi Berashis 30</ref><br />
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===Genealogy of Shem===<br />
The descendants of Shem are listed to indicate that now the families of Yefes and Cham were considered irrelevant.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/><br />
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==References==<br />
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<div>Parashat Noach<br />
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==Noach's Ark==<br />
===Noach's Family===<br />
Noach was a righteous man, with good deeds,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9">Rashi Berashis 6:9</ref> the main generations of the righteous.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> He was perfect in his generations who walked in the ways of Hashem who encouraged him, unlike Avraham who would strengthened himself in his righteousness.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> If Noach would have lived in the Generation of Avraham in some ways<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach">Shover Zadim Parshas Noach</ref> he would have been more righteous<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> but in other ways<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> he would not have been considered of any importance.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> He was righteous in compression of the 20 from Adom to Avraham but once Avraham appeared Noach was no longer considered righteous.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> <br />
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Noach had three sons; Shem, Cham, and Yafes. Noach's family was listed to indicate that now all the earlier generations were irrelevant.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1">Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1</ref> Nach witnesed the world in three states: Preflood, Flood and Postflood<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1">Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1</ref> and Elifaz Hatimni, Beldad HaShuchi and Tzofer Hanamasi.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> THe name Noach denotes pleasantness, since Noach was pleasant to Hashem, People, Upper Realms, Lower Realms, In This World and in the Next World.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> Noach was very wise.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/><br />
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===World's Perversion===<br />
The world became corrupted with immorality<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11">Rashi Berashis 6:11</ref> idolatry<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11"/> and full of robbery.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11"/> These were all caused by their opposition to the Tzadikim of their generation; Mesushelach and Noach,<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5">Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5</ref> and not receiving their oral teaching of Holiness<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5"/> leading them to twist all the teachings.<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5"/> Hashem saw the corruption and how all creatures including cattle, beasts and birds had corrupted their ways by mating with members of other species.<ref>Rashi Berashis 6:12</ref><br />
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Hashem told Noach that he plans on destroying all life on the world due to their immorality and idolatry which brings death to the world, killing both good and bad.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13">Rashi Berashis 6:13</ref> Despite this their final verdict was sealed only because of mass robbery.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13"/> Even the earth would be destroyed, blotted out and obliterated to the depth of a plowshare, 3 Tefachim,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13"/> roughly a foot (27 cm).<br />
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===Instruction of Ark===<br />
Hashem told Noach to make for himself an ark of gopher wood, which sounds like gophris - sulphur which they were decreed to be destroyed with.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> He should make the ark with compartments which would serve as dwelling places for the domestic animals and wild beasts.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> He was to caulk it both inside and outside with pitch, due to the strength of the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> Moshe's ark which was in calm waters was coated with clay inside and pitch only on the outside.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> Also so the righteous Moshe should not smell the bad odor of pitch.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> <br />
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Noach was to size it: 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high. He was to make a window<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16">Rashi Berashis 6:16</ref> which would server as a skylight for the ark as well as a<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> precious stone, which would generate light.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> <br />
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Its roof should slant upwards narrowing to the width of one cubit which was flat and was not pointed to the end,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> so the waters should run down.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> It should have a door on its side, so that the rain should not enter it. It would have three stories one above the other,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> a bottom for garbage, second story for animal dwelling, and an upper third story for the people.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/><br />
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Although Hashem had many ways to save Noach, he did so through the ark, giving his generation a chance to repent as they inquired about Noach working on it for 120 years and replied that Hashem planed on bringing a flood to the world.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14">Rashi Berashis 6:14</ref><br />
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===Flood Warning===<br />
Hashem announced that He is bringing a flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which there is the spirit of life, from beneath the heavens. Hashem was now ready to agree to the angels who urged Him long ago not to create man.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17">Rashi Berashis 6:17</ref> All that is upon the earth would perish. This flood would wear everything out, mix everything up and move everything from high ground to low ground and floated everything down to Bavel which is deep,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17"/> it was therefore called a בלה, בלבל, הוביל - מבול.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17"/><br />
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Hashem will uphold His covenant with Noach that the fruits will not rot and become moldy<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18">Rashi Berashis 6:18</ref> and that he should not be killed by the wicked of his generation.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18"/> Noach is to enter the ark with his sons, wife and daughter-in-laws, they are prohibited to have marital relations.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18"/><br />
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Noach is to bring with him into the ark at least<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19">Rashi Berashis 6:19</ref> two of each living thing, of all flesh, to preserve their life. These should include one male and one female.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19"/> This included even demons.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19"/> Two from each kind of bird, animal and ground creeper, that did not have relations with other species and corrupts their way,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20">Rashi Berashis 6:20</ref> will come on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20"/> to Noach so he could preserve their life. Those that whom the ark let them enter<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20"/> and did not reject, were to be saved.<br />
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Noach is to take for himself and gather every food that is eaten and it should be for him and them to eat. Noach did according to all that Hashem had commanded him, specifically the building of the ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 6:22</ref><br />
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===Entering Ark Command===<br />
Hashem told Noach to enter the ark along with his household for he has found him a righteous man in his generation. This praise was in front of Noach, therefore Hashem did not call him a 'perfectly righteous man' since we tell only partial praise in a person’s presence and all of it in his absence. <ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:1">Rashi Berashis 7:1</ref><br />
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From all the clean animals Noach should take seven pairs of husband and wife. From the animals that are not clean, Noach should only take two, a single husband and wife. Since Noach studied Torah he knew which animals were going to distained to be pure for the Jewish Nation.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:2">Rashi Berashis 7:2</ref> More kosher animal were taken, so Noach could offer sacrifices from them upon leaving the ark.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:2"/> Also, from the clean<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:3">Rashi Berashis 7:3</ref> birds of the skies, Noach was to take seven pairs, male and female, to keep their seed alive on the face of the earth.<br />
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Hashem declared that in another seven days, He will make it rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights, and He will blot out all beings that He created off the face of the earth. Hashem took into consideration the honor of the tzadik Mesushelach who had passed away when Noach turned 600 and delayed the retribution for an additional<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> seven days of his mourning,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4">Rashi Berashis 7:4</ref> above the originally decreed 120 year period.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> A flood of 40 days was decreed upon them, corresponding to the 40 days it takes to form a fetus, as retribution for burdening their Creator to to form illegitimate children.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> <br />
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Noach did all that Hashem commanded him and entered the Ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 7:5</ref><br />
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===Entering the Ark===<br />
Noach was 600 years old when the when the waters flooded the earth. Noach, his 3 sons, his wife and 3 daughter-in-laws entered the ark because of the waters of the flood. The men entered separately from the women to symbolize that it they were prohibited to have martital relations while the world what suffering.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:7">Rashi Berashis 7:7</ref> Noach had little faith and was not fully certain the flood would take place, he therefore did not enter the ark until he was forced to by the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:7"/> Sets of two, male and female from the clean animals, unclean animals, birds and land creeps arrived on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:9">Rashi Berashis 7:9</ref> to Noach and the ark, just like Hashem commanded. At least one set of two arrived from each species.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:9"/><br />
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The people of his generation threatened to kill Noach and break the ark, if they see him entering it. Hashem announced that he would bring Noach into the ark before their eyes and they would see whose plan prevailed.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:13">Rashi Berashis 7:13</ref> Therefore Noach entered the ark in middle of the day with his sons; Shem, Cham and Yefes, along with his wife and the daughter in laws. They were accompanied by every type of beast, domestic animal, land creeper, birds and flying creatures with appearance of feathers,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:14"/> including locusts. <ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:14">Rashi Berashis 7:14</ref> All flesh that contained spirit of life, came in sets of two, male and female to Noach and the ark, as Hashem had commanded him. Hashem then shut him in the ark, sealing it from water<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:16"/> and protecting him from the masses who wanted to break the ark by surrounding it with bear and lions who would kill them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:16">Rashi Berashis 7:16</ref><br />
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==The Flood==<br />
After the seven day extension, on the 600th year of Noach's life, on the 17th of the second month of the year (Which was either Cheshvon or Iyar),<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11">Rashi Berashis 7:11</ref> all the springs of the great depths ruptured to emit their waters<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11"/> and the portals of the sky opened bringing the flood waters upon the earth. Sine that generation had sinned with 'great' evil they were now punished measure for measure with the waters of the 'great' depths.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11"/><br />
<br />
Hashem began the flood with mercy bringdown light rains that would have concluded as rains of blessing had they repented. When they did not, it turned into a flood.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12">Rashi Berashis 7:12</ref> There was rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights, lasting until the 28th of Kislev<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/> (12 Cheshvon + 28 Kislev).<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/> In truth, it rained for 41 days but the first was not counted since it did not rain during its proceeding night.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/><br />
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When the forty days of flood upon the earth began, the waters increased and lifted the ark, and raising it off the earth. Like all loaded ships, the bottom of the ark remained submerged 11 cubits in the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:17">Rashi Berashis 7:17</ref> The waters became powerful, greatly increased on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:18">Rashi Berashis 7:18</ref> upon the earth, the ark moving above the waters. When the waters became exceedingly powerful upon the earth, all the tall mountains found under the heavens, became covered by water. The mountains were covered by an additional 15 cubits of water above their highest peaks.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:20">Rashi Berashis 7:20</ref><br />
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===Destruction of Life===<br />
All flesh perished that moved upon the earth, including all birds, cattle, beasts, creeping creatures that creep upon the earth and all humans. Everything that breathed the spirit of life in its nostrils,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:22">Rashi Berashis 7:22</ref> that were on dry land died. However the fish that were in the ocean did not die.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:22"/><br />
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The Flood<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23">Rashi Berashis 7:23</ref> obliterated all beings that were upon the face of the earth, including man, animal, birds of the skys and creeping things. They were obliterated from the earth. Only Noach and those with him in the ark survived. Although Noach survived, it was rough experience for him as well. He was groaning and spitting blood because of the burden taking care of the cattle and beasts.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/> He was also wounded after the lion struck him when he delayed feeding it.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/> This was to eradicate any misdoings of Noach while still in This World, so he would not be punished in the next.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/><br />
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==Ending of Flood==<br />
The water prevailed upon the earth for one hundred and fifty days.<br />
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Hashem remembered Noach and all the beasts and cattle that were with him in the ark. This was due to the prayers of Noach and his sons that transformed the Divine attribute of Justice into the attribute of mercy.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 8:1">Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> Hashem passed a spirit over the earth and the waters subsided.<br />
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===Permitting of Meat===<br />
They were now permitted to eat animal meat which had not been allowed until then, just like they had been permitted to eat vegetation at the time of Adom.<ref>Rashi Berashis 30</ref><br />
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===Genealogy of Shem===<br />
The descendants of Shem are listed to indicate that now the families of Yefes and Cham were considered irrelevant.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/><br />
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==References==<br />
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<div>'''Parashat Bereishit''' is the first Parsha in the Book of Bereishit and the first Parsha of the Torah.<br />
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==Creation==<br />
In the beginning of Hashem creation<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:1"/> of Heaven and Earth the world was astonishingly<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:2">Rashi Berashis 1:2</ref> empty and desolate.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:2"/> Darkness was on the face of the water upon deep earth.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:2"/> The spirit of Hashem and His Throne of Glory<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:2"/> hovered over the face of the water, suspended in the air,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:2"/> by the breath of His mouth and His word,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:2"/> just like a dove hovering over its nest.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:2"/> The sprit of Hashem alludes to the Sprit of Moshiach.<ref name="Baal Haturim Birashis 1:2">Baal Haturim Birashis 1:2</ref><br />
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The world was created in merit of the Jews accepting<ref name="Baal Haturim Birashis 1:1"/> the Torah,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:1"/> in merit of Nation of Yisroel<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:1"/> and for the Truth.<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Geniva 5">Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Geniva 5</ref> It was finished on Rosh Hashanah.<ref name="Baal Haturim Birashis 1:1">Baal Haturim Birashis 1:1</ref> and was created with Truth.<ref name="Baal Haturim Birashis 1:1"/> Originally Hashem intended to create the World with the attribute of Justice since the highest levels of nullification to Hashem are attainable through harsh judgments, which would allow people to reach the ultimate goodness of great comprehension of Hashem. However He saw it could not last as most people would fail to achieve this nullification.<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Tefillas Arvis 4:7">ikutay Halachos, Hilchos Tefillas Arvis 4:7</ref> Instead he proceeded to create it with the attribute of Mercy and joined it with the attribute of Justice.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:1"/> <br />
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Instead of starting the Torah by the instruction of Kidush Hachodesh,<ref name="Chumash Shemos 12:2">Chumash Shemos 12:2</ref> the first publicly given commandment, the Torah starts from Creation to reveal the power of Hashem and that all belongs to Him and therefore the Jews had right to capture the Land of Canaan at His command.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:1">Rashi Berashis 1:1</ref> It is forbidden to expound on the mystical teachings of Creation and the Chariot, to those that are not worthy.<ref>Baal Haturim Birashis 1:7</ref><br />
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===First Day===<br />
Hashem creates the sky, land and light. He said there should be light and there was light. Hashem saw the light that it was good and should not be mixed together with the darkness.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:4">Rashi Berashis 1:4</ref> This light was an aspect of the Torah, the 613 commandments and the covnent of the Bris.<ref name="Baal Haturim Birashis 1:4">Baal Haturim Birashis 1:4</ref> He then separates the light and darkness, giving boundaries to each,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:4"/> calling the light day and the darkness night. Hashem also saw that it was not befitting for the wicked to access the original light was not so He separated it for the righteous to use in the future.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:4"/> It was evening and then morning and the first day was over. During the first day only Hashem existed in the world, for the angels were not created until the second day.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:5">Rashi Berashis 1:5</ref><br />
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The sun and moon were also created on the first day, but only suspended in the sky on the 4th day.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:14"/> Likewise all the creations of heaven and earth were created on the first day, but were only fixed in their proper places later on.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:14"/><br />
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===Second Day===<br />
Hashem said there should be a firmament in the middle<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:6">Rashi Berashis 1:6</ref> of the water, separating the Upper and Lower Waters.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:6"/> The heavens were created on the first day, but were is a state of moisture and the pillars of the heavens trembled the entire day.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:6"/> On they second day they solidified from the rebuke of Hashem, when He said the above command, like a person who stands in awe from the rebuke of one who threatens him.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:6"/> <br />
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Hashem made the firmament, establishing it on its base<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:7">Rashi Berashis 1:7</ref> and it separated between the water that were below and above it. Just like there is space between the oceans and the sky so to there is space between the sky and the Upper Waters,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:6"/> all layers being suspended in place in the air<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:7"/> by the word of the King Hashem.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:6"/><br />
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Hashem named the firmament 'Heaven' (שמים) which is a combination of all the following words<br />
* שא מים - Carry water<br />
* שם מים - There is water there<br />
* אש ומים - Fire and water, since the Hashem mingled them together, creating the heavens from them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:8">Rashi Berashis 1:8</ref><br />
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Also the Angels were created on the second day.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:5"/> It was evening and then morning and the second day was over. Since the functionality of the Waters were not completed until the third day, it does not say 'It was good' since something that is incomplete is not fully good.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:7"/><br />
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===Third Day===<br />
At this point the lower waters were spread out over the surface of the entire earth.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:9">Rashi Berashis 1:9</ref> Hashem said the lower waters should gather into one pool and the dry land should appear. They were gathered into the Mediterranean ocean, the largest of all seas.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:9"/> <br />
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Hashem named the dry area 'land' and the water 'oceans' and He saw that it was good. Although all the water is connected and is a single large sea, the flavor of a fish that comes up from the sea in Acco is different then a fish from Spain, therefore the body of water was named 'Oceans' in plural form.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:10">Rashi Berashis 1:10</ref><br />
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Hashem said, the earth should sprout a layer vegetation,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:11"/> seed yielding herbs<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:11">Rashi Berashis 1:11</ref> and fruit trees producing fruit according to its kind in which its seeds<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:11"/> are found, so it can be replanted elsewhere<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:11"/> on the earth and trees will grow from it.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:11"/> <br />
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It was so, the earth gave forth vegetation, seed yielding herbs according to its species, and trees producing fruit with seeds according to its species, and Hashem saw that it was good. Although the herbs did not receive a direct command to produce according to their set species, they heard the trees being commanded to do so and take an example for themselves.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:12">Rashi Berashis 1:12</ref> It was evening and then morning, a third day.<br />
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Hashem had commanded that the taste of each tree should be like its fruit. However the earth did not do so and only produced taste in the actual fruits. Therefore when when Adam was cursed for his sin, the earth was also reimbursed for its sin and cursed.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:11"/> Each blade of grass has a Mazel above.<ref>Baal Haturim Birashis 1:12</ref><br />
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Hashem then creates the potential for grasses and fruit trees, although they did not sprout until the sixth day.<br />
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Since all the water related work was completed on the third day, 'It was Good' is mentioned twice once for the second day where it was omitted since the work was incomplete and once for the third day.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:7"/><br />
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===Fourth Day===<br />
Hashem said there should be lights in the firmament of the heavens. Although the sun and moon were created on the first day, it was only on the 4th day that they were suspended in the sky.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:14">Rashi Berashis 1:14</ref> They will separate between the day and between the night. They were server as signs for when the sun or moon are eclipsed, it is an unfavorable omen for the world.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:14"/> They are to be use to appoint seasons, since the months and holidays are set based on the rebirth of the new moon.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:14"/> They set the timeframe of the days, since the sun servers for half a day and the moon for the other half, completing a full day cycle.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:14"/> They also set the year cycle, which lasts 356 days during which they complete their revolution through the twelve constellations, which serve them. In addition,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:15">Rashi Berashis 1:15</ref> they will serve as lights in the firmament of the heavens to shine light upon the earth. It was so. Really only the sun was created for light, while the moon was created only to prevent worship of the sun had it been created alone.<ref>Baal Haturim Birashis 1:14</ref><br />
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Hashem made the two great lights, the sun and the moon. Originally both were the same size<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:16">Rashi Berashis 1:16</ref> but when the moon complained that the sun had equal power and it is impossible for two kings to use the same crown, it was punished and made smaller.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:16"/> Following this sun - the great light ruled during the day, while the moon - the lesser light ruled at night. Because Hashem diminished the moon, He created for it hosts of stars, to appease it.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:16"/> Hashem placed them in the firmament of the heavens to shine light upon the earth, to rule over the day and night and to separate between the light and darkness. Hashem saw that it was good. It was evening and then morning, a fourth day.<br />
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The fourth day of the week is cursed day when children become ill with croup and therefore the men of the Mamad would fast on the 4th day so that children should not become ill with croup.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:14"/><br />
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===Fifth Day===<br />
Hashem said the waters should swarm a swarming of living creatures, containing life in them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:20">Rashi Berashis 1:20</ref> This included all living things that are not much higher than the earth.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:20"/> It included winged creatures such as flies, insects such as ants, beetles, and worms and larger creatures such as weasels, mice and lizards.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:20"/> It also included all the fish.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:20"/> Additionally let birds fly over the earth, across the firmament of the heavens. More kosher birds were created then non-kosher ones.<ref>Baal Haturim Birashis 1:22</ref><br />
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Hashem created the great sea reptiles, which included the great fish in the sea, the Leviyatan and its mate. Both male and female were created but Hashem killed the female, and salted her away for the righteous in the future, because if they would have children, the world could not exist because of them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:21"/><br />
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Also every living creature containing life in them<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:21">Rashi Berashis 1:21</ref> that crawls, with which the waters swarmed, according to their species. As well as every winged bird, according to its species. Hashem saw that it was good.<br />
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Because these creatures are hunted by humans and their numbers are decreased,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:22">Rashi Berashis 1:22</ref> Hashem blessed them to be fruitful<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:22"/> and each should mass<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:22"/> multiply. They should fill the waters of the seas, and let the birds multiply upon the earth. It was evening, then morning, a fifth day.<br />
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===Sixth Day===<br />
Hashem said the earth should bring forth what was already previously created on the first day;<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:24">Rashi Berashis 1:24</ref> living creatures, containing life in them,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:24"/> according to their species, cattle, creeping things which are low and crawl upon the earth appearing to drag since their walking motions are not noticeable<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:24"/> and the beasts of the earth according to their species. It was so.<br />
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Hashem made the beasts of the earth, cattle, creeping things of the ground all in their complete form and stature,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:25">Rashi Berashis 1:25</ref> according to their species. Hashem saw that it was good.<br />
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Although the land animals are also hunted by humans and their numbers are decreased, Hashem did not bless them to multiply like he did to the birds and fish because He did not want to include the serpent in the blessings since was destined to be cursed.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:22"/><br />
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====Creation of Adam====<br />
Hashem counseled with the angels<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:26">Rashi Berashis 1:26</ref> saying they should make man in their image form,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:26"/> after their likeness, giving them ability to understand and to discern.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:26"/> They shall rule over the fish of the sea, birds of the heaven, animals, entire earth and all creepy things that creep upon the earth. This is only if a man merits, if he does not, then he becomes subservient to them, and the beast rules over him.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:26"/> <br />
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We see the humility of Hashem who knew the angels would be jealous of man, so he therefore first consulted with them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:26"/> Additionally it is the policy of Hashem to consult them when he judges kings.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:26"/> Here He also did saying there are heavenly beings in His likeness and if no earthly beings were created in His likeness, there will be envy in the Creation.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:26"/> Although the angels were consulted, only Hashem created man, unlike the heretics that misquote the verse since 'let us create' is written in plural.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:26"/><br />
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Hashem created man in His image using His hands, unlike everything else that was created with His sayings.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:27">Rashi Berashis 1:27</ref> He was created in the image of Hashem, with a mold like a coin.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:27"/> The image that was prepared for Adam was the image of the likeness of his Creator,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:27"/> Both male and female humans were created by Hashem on the sixth day.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:27"/> Originally they were created together with two faces on a single body, but later Hashem divided them by taking one of Adom's ribs.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:27"/> Man was created from earth and is composed of dust, blood and bile.<ref name="Baal Haturim Birashis 1:27">Baal Haturim Birashis 1:27</ref> Males are more in realm of blessing, while females are more in the realm of curse.<ref name="Baal Haturim Birashis 1:29"/><br />
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Hahsem blessed them, telling them to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over all the beasts that tread upon the earth. Only males have the commandment to multiply<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:28">Rashi Berashis 1:28</ref> and should subdue the females from public socialization.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:28"/> If they merit they will subdue even the fish but if not they will be subdued even by nations like the Plishtim.<ref>Baal Haturim Berashis 1:28</ref><br />
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Hashem saw all that He had made, and behold it was very good. It was evening and morning, the sixth day.<br />
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Hashem told Adom he is being given every seed bearing herb on the surface of the entire earth and every tree that has seed bearing fruit as his for food. However Adom and his wife were not permitted to kill any creatures and eat their meat.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:30">Rashi Berashis 1:30</ref> Similarly,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:30"/> all the beasts of the earth, birds of the heavens and everything that moves upon the earth, in which there is a living spirit, also have the right to eat green herbs. It was so. It was only during the time of Noach that humans were permitted to eat animals.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:30"/><br />
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====Creation of Gan Eden====<br />
Hashem creates a garden on the Eastern side of Eden. In the garden are many trees including the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge. There is a river that waters the garden which afterwords separates to four smaller rivers; Pishon, Gichon, Chidekel and Pras. Hashem appoints Adam as the caretaker and guardian of the garden and permits him to eat from all the trees aside from the Tree of Knowledge.<br />
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====Creation of Chava====<br />
Hashem declares that Adam needs a helper. After Adam names all the animals and can not find a suitable helper, Hashem places him in a deep sleep. He then takes one of his ribs and forms a woman out of it. Adam names her a 'wife'. The two walk undressed with no embarrassment.<br />
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===Shabbos===<br />
Hashem finishes creation of the heavens, earth and all their hosts at the instance the sixth day was over,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 2:2">Rashi Berashis 2:2</ref> sealing Creation with the Shem Havaya.<ref>Baal Haturim Berashis 1:31</ref> Calculating the last millisecond of the sixth day was an act that only Hashem who knows the exact moment can do, but to others it appeared as if the work slightly continued into the 7th day.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 2:2"/> Hashem abstained on the seventh day from all the that He did, providing 'rest' to the world, completing it with its last lacking element.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 2:2"/><br />
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Hashem blessed the seventh day and made it holy, since He abstained from all the work He created, by doing double work on the 6th day, covering all work needed for the 7th day.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 2:3">Rashi Berashis 2:3</ref> This blessing later manifested in the Mun which was given in a double portion on Erev Shabbos, as well as the holiness since on Shabbos it did not rain Mun at all.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 2:3"/><br />
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===Finalizing Creation===<br />
Now that the heaven and earth had been created, the previous state of Tohu Vavohu chaos was deemed irrelevant<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1">Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1</ref><br />
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==Sin of Adam==<br />
===Seduction of Snake===<br />
The snake seduces Chava into eating from the Tree of Knowledge claiming it will give her G-dly powers. After touching the tree and remaining unharmed Chava eats from it and then feeds some to her husband. Upon eating the forbidden fruit they gain knowledge and realize they are undressed. Out of embarrassment they create garments and then hide from Hashem among the trees of the garden. Hashem calls out to Adam who then admits he was hiding since he was undressed. Hashem asks Adam if he ate from the Tree of Knowledge. Adam confesses that he did but blames it on Chava who in-turn blames it on the snake.<br />
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The Tree of Knowledge had an element<ref>Shover Zadim Parshas Berashis</ref> of an Etrog Tree.<ref name="Baal Haturim Birashis 1:29">Baal Haturim Birashis 1:29</ref><br />
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===Punishments===<br />
Hashem punishes the snake with ten curses<ref name="Tikunay Zohar Tikkun 64"/> including having crawl on his stomach, eat dust and forever be hated by humans. Additionally the hands and legs he previously had were cut off from him.<ref name="Tikunay Zohar Tikkun 64">Tikunay Zohar Tikkun 64</ref> Chava is punished with ten curses<ref name="Tikunay Zohar Tikkun 64"/> including women having to suffer the pain of child raising, pain of pregnancy, pain of birth and always require attention from her husband. [[Adam Harishon|Adam]] is punished with ten curses<ref name="Tikunay Zohar Tikkun 64"/> including having the ground cursed because of him, from now on it will sprout thorns in place of crops and men will eat bread only through the sweat of their brow. The ground is punished with nine curses since it had the ability to protest and prevent Adom from eating for the tree of death.<ref name="Tikunay Zohar Tikkun 64"/> It was also paid back at this time for producing taste only in its fruits and not in the Tree itself, as Hashem had commanded.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 1:11"/><br />
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===Naming of Chava===<br />
Adam names his wife Chava since she is the mother of all those alive (Chi).<br />
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===Skin Garments===<br />
Hashem dresses Adam and Chava in skin garments.<br />
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===Expulsion===<br />
Adam is expelled from the garden to prevent him from eating from the Tree of Life. Hashem places damaging angles and the blade of the rotating sward at the gate of the garden to prevent Adam from reentering it.<br />
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==Kayin & Hevel==<br />
===Birth===<br />
Kayin and Hevel are born to Adam and Chava. Hevel becomes a shepherd while Hayin works the land.<br />
===Sacrifices===<br />
Kayin and Hevel both offer sacrifices to Hashem. Hevel's sacrifice is accepted while Hayin's is rejected. Upon seeing this, Kayin's face drops. Hashem teaches Kayin about the Evil Urge and how it can be overcome.<br />
===Murder===<br />
Kayin murders Hevel. Hashem punishes the ground for swalowing Hevel's blood. Kayin is punished to from now on wander the earth. Kayin pleads for mercy and Hashem places a letter mark on his forehead to save him from being attacked by wild beasts for seven generations.<br />
===Generations of Kayin===<br />
# Kayin gives births Chanoch and builds a city for him naming it after his son. <br />
# Chanoch births Eirad. <br />
# Eirad births Machviel<br />
# Machviel births Mesushelach<br />
# Mesushelach births Lemech<br />
# Lemech births Yuval and Yoval from his wife Ada and Tuval Kayin and Nama from his wife Tzila.<br />
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===Death of Kayin===<br />
Lemech accidentally kills his ancestor Kayin and he is hunting blindly guided by his son Tuval Kayin. He then kills Tuval Kayin. Lemech's two wives separate from him and he wounder why he received and immediately punishment while Kayin's was delayed for seven generations.<br />
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==Adam's Descendants==<br />
There are ten generations form Adam until Noach<br />
# Adam lives for 930 years<br />
# Shes lives for 912 years<br />
# Enosh lives for 905 years<br />
# Kanun lives for 910 years<br />
# Mehalalel lives for 895 years<br />
# Yered lives for 962 years<br />
# Chanoch lives for 365 years and is then taken by Hashem<br />
# Mesushelach lives for 969 years<br />
# Lemech lives for 777 years<br />
# Noach has three sons Shem, Cham and Yafes<br />
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==Perversion==<br />
After the world is perverted by the fallen angles, Hashem declares that he will give mankind an opportunity of 120 years to repent. These giants attempt to rebel against Hashem with their strength and they are called 'Nifilim'. <br />
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===Decree of the Flood===<br />
The great evil of man caused the attribute of of Hashem's mercy to be turned into the strict attribute of justice.<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> Hashem decides to destroy the now corrupted world, giving a 120 year extension to the decree. This decree took place before the birth of Yefes.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 18:3">Rashi Berashis 18:3</ref> Noach finds favor in Hashem's eyes.<br />
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<div>Parashat Noach<br />
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==Noach's Ark==<br />
===Noach's Family===<br />
Noach was a righteous man, with good deeds,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9">Rashi Berashis 6:9</ref> the main generations of the righteous.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> He was perfect in his generations who walked in the ways of Hashem who encouraged him, unlike Avraham who would strengthened himself in his righteousness.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> If Noach would have lived in the Generation of Avraham in some ways<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach">Shover Zadim Parshas Noach</ref> he would have been more righteous<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> but in other ways<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> he would not have been considered of any importance.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> He was righteous in compression of the 20 from Adom to Avraham but once Avraham appeared Noach was no longer considered righteous.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> <br />
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Noach had three sons; Shem, Cham, and Yafes. Noach's family was listed to indicate that now all the earlier generations were irrelevant.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1">Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1</ref> Nach witnesed the world in three states: Preflood, Flood and Postflood<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1">Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1</ref> and Elifaz Hatimni, Beldad HaShuchi and Tzofer Hanamasi.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> THe name Noach denotes pleasantness, since Noach was pleasant to Hashem, People, Upper Realms, Lower Realms, In This World and in the Next World.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> Noach was very wise.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/><br />
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===World's Perversion===<br />
The world became corrupted with immorality<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11">Rashi Berashis 6:11</ref> idolatry<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11"/> and full of robbery.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11"/> These were all caused by their opposition to the Tzadikim of their generation; Mesushelach and Noach,<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5">Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5</ref> and not receiving their oral teaching of Holiness<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5"/> leading them to twist all the teachings.<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5"/> Hashem saw the corruption and how all creatures including cattle, beasts and birds had corrupted their ways by mating with members of other species.<ref>Rashi Berashis 6:12</ref><br />
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Hashem told Noach that he plans on destroying all life on the world due to their immorality and idolatry which brings death to the world, killing both good and bad.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13">Rashi Berashis 6:13</ref> Despite this their final verdict was sealed only because of mass robbery.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13"/> Even the earth would be destroyed, blotted out and obliterated to the depth of a plowshare, 3 Tefachim,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13"/> roughly a foot (27 cm).<br />
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===Instruction of Ark===<br />
Hashem told Noach to make for himself an ark of gopher wood, which sounds like gophris - sulphur which they were decreed to be destroyed with.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> He should make the ark with compartments which would serve as dwelling places for the domestic animals and wild beasts.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> He was to caulk it both inside and outside with pitch, due to the strength of the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> Moshe's ark which was in calm waters was coated with clay inside and pitch only on the outside.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> Also so the righteous Moshe should not smell the bad odor of pitch.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> <br />
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Noach was to size it: 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high. He was to make a window<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16">Rashi Berashis 6:16</ref> which would server as a skylight for the ark as well as a<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> precious stone, which would generate light.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> <br />
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Its roof should slant upwards narrowing to the width of one cubit which was flat and was not pointed to the end,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> so the waters should run down.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> It should have a door on its side, so that the rain should not enter it. It would have three stories one above the other,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> a bottom for garbage, second story for animal dwelling, and an upper third story for the people.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/><br />
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Although Hashem had many ways to save Noach, he did so through the ark, giving his generation a chance to repent as they inquired about Noach working on it for 120 years and replied that Hashem planed on bringing a flood to the world.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14">Rashi Berashis 6:14</ref><br />
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===Flood Warning===<br />
Hashem announced that He is bringing a flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which there is the spirit of life, from beneath the heavens. Hashem was now ready to agree to the angels who urged Him long ago not to create man.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17">Rashi Berashis 6:17</ref> All that is upon the earth would perish. This flood would wear everything out, mix everything up and move everything from high ground to low ground and floated everything down to Bavel which is deep,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17"/> it was therefore called a בלה, בלבל, הוביל - מבול.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17"/><br />
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Hashem will uphold His covenant with Noach that the fruits will not rot and become moldy<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18">Rashi Berashis 6:18</ref> and that he should not be killed by the wicked of his generation.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18"/> Noach is to enter the ark with his sons, wife and daughter-in-laws, they are prohibited to have marital relations.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18"/><br />
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Noach is to bring with him into the ark at least<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19">Rashi Berashis 6:19</ref> two of each living thing, of all flesh, to preserve their life. These should include one male and one female.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19"/> This included even demons.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19"/> Two from each kind of bird, animal and ground creeper, that did not have relations with other species and corrupts their way,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20">Rashi Berashis 6:20</ref> will come on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20"/> to Noach so he could preserve their life. Those that whom the ark let them enter<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20"/> and did not reject, were to be saved.<br />
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Noach is to take for himself and gather every food that is eaten and it should be for him and them to eat. Noach did according to all that Hashem had commanded him, specifically the building of the ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 6:22</ref><br />
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===Entering Ark Command===<br />
Hashem told Noach to enter the ark along with his household for he has found him a righteous man in his generation. This praise was in front of Noach, therefore Hashem did not call him a 'perfectly righteous man' since we tell only partial praise in a person’s presence and all of it in his absence. <ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:1">Rashi Berashis 7:1</ref><br />
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From all the clean animals Noach should take seven pairs of husband and wife. From the animals that are not clean, Noach should only take two, a single husband and wife. Since Noach studied Torah he knew which animals were going to distained to be pure for the Jewish Nation.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:2">Rashi Berashis 7:2</ref> More kosher animal were taken, so Noach could offer sacrifices from them upon leaving the ark.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:2"/> Also, from the clean<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:3">Rashi Berashis 7:3</ref> birds of the skies, Noach was to take seven pairs, male and female, to keep their seed alive on the face of the earth.<br />
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Hashem declared that in another seven days, He will make it rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights, and He will blot out all beings that He created off the face of the earth. Hashem took into consideration the honor of the tzadik Mesushelach who had passed away when Noach turned 600 and delayed the retribution for an additional<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> seven days of his mourning,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4">Rashi Berashis 7:4</ref> above the originally decreed 120 year period.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> A flood of 40 days was decreed upon them, corresponding to the 40 days it takes to form a fetus, as retribution for burdening their Creator to to form illegitimate children.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> <br />
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Noach did all that Hashem commanded him and entered the Ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 7:5</ref><br />
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===Entering the Ark===<br />
Noach was 600 years old when the when the waters flooded the earth. Noach, his 3 sons, his wife and 3 daughter-in-laws entered the ark because of the waters of the flood. The men entered separately from the women to symbolize that it they were prohibited to have martital relations while the world what suffering.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:7">Rashi Berashis 7:7</ref> Noach had little faith and was not fully certain the flood would take place, he therefore did not enter the ark until he was forced to by the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:7"/> Sets of two, male and female from the clean animals, unclean animals, birds and land creeps arrived on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:9">Rashi Berashis 7:9</ref> to Noach and the ark, just like Hashem commanded. At least one set of two arrived from each species.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:9"/><br />
<br />
The people of his generation threatened to kill Noach and break the ark, if they see him entering it. Hashem announced that he would bring Noach into the ark before their eyes and they would see whose plan prevailed.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:13">Rashi Berashis 7:13</ref> Therefore Noach entered the ark in middle of the day with his sons; Shem, Cham and Yefes, along with his wife and the daughter in laws. They were accompanied by every type of beast, domestic animal, land creeper, birds and flying creatures with appearance of feathers,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:14"/> including locusts. <ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:14">Rashi Berashis 7:14</ref> All flesh that contained spirit of life, came in sets of two, male and female to Noach and the ark, as Hashem had commanded him. Hashem then shut him in the ark, sealing it from water<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:16"/> and protecting him from the masses who wanted to break the ark by surrounding it with bear and lions who would kill them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:16">Rashi Berashis 7:16</ref><br />
<br />
==The Flood==<br />
After the seven day extension, on the 600th year of Noach's life, on the 17th of the second month of the year (Which was either Cheshvon or Iyar),<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11">Rashi Berashis 7:11</ref> all the springs of the great depths ruptured to emit their waters<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11"/> and the portals of the sky opened bringing the flood waters upon the earth. Sine that generation had sinned with 'great' evil they were now punished measure for measure with the waters of the 'great' depths.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11"/><br />
<br />
Hashem began the flood with mercy bringdown light rains that would have concluded as rains of blessing had they repented. When they did not, it turned into a flood.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12">Rashi Berashis 7:12</ref> There was rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights, lasting until the 28th of Kislev<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/> (12 Cheshvon + 28 Kislev).<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/> In truth, it rained for 41 days but the first was not counted since it did not rain during its proceeding night.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/><br />
<br />
When the forty days of flood upon the earth began, the waters increased and lifted the ark, and raising it off the earth. Like all loaded ships, the bottom of the ark remained submerged 11 cubits in the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:17">Rashi Berashis 7:17</ref> The waters became powerful, greatly increased on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:18">Rashi Berashis 7:18</ref> upon the earth, the ark moving above the waters. When the waters became exceedingly powerful upon the earth, all the tall mountains found under the heavens, became covered by water. The mountains were covered by an additional 15 cubits of water above their highest peaks.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:20">Rashi Berashis 7:20</ref><br />
<br />
===Destruction of Life===<br />
All flesh perished that moved upon the earth, including all birds, cattle, beasts, creeping creatures that creep upon the earth and all humans. Everything that breathed the spirit of life in its nostrils,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:22">Rashi Berashis 7:22</ref> that were on dry land died. However the fish that were in the ocean did not die.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:22"/><br />
<br />
<br />
The Flood<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23">Rashi Berashis 7:23</ref> obliterated all beings that were upon the face of the earth, including man, animal, birds of the skys and creeping things. They were obliterated from the earth. Only Noach and those with him in the ark survived. Although Noach survived, it was rough experience for him as well. He was groaning and spitting blood because of the burden taking care of the cattle and beasts.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/> He was also wounded after the lion struck him when he delayed feeding it.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/> This was to eradicate any misdoings of Noach while still in This World, so he would not be punished in the next.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/><br />
<br />
==Ending of Flood==<br />
The water prevailed upon the earth for one hundred and fifty days.<br />
<br />
Hashem remembered Noach and all the beasts and cattle that were with him in the ark. Hashem caused a spirit to pass over the earth and the waters subsided.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Permitting of Meat===<br />
They were now permitted to eat animal meat which had not been allowed until then, just like they had been permitted to eat vegetation at the time of Adom.<ref>Rashi Berashis 30</ref><br />
<br />
===Genealogy of Shem===<br />
The descendants of Shem are listed to indicate that now the families of Yefes and Cham were considered irrelevant.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/><br />
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==References==<br />
<references/><br />
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[[Category:Parsha]]</div>Dunhttp://zissil.com/topics/Parashat-NoachParashat-Noach2021-10-09T18:28:49Z<p>Dun: /* Destruction of Life */</p>
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<div>Parashat Noach<br />
<br />
==Noach's Ark==<br />
===Noach's Family===<br />
Noach was a righteous man, with good deeds,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9">Rashi Berashis 6:9</ref> the main generations of the righteous.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> He was perfect in his generations who walked in the ways of Hashem who encouraged him, unlike Avraham who would strengthened himself in his righteousness.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> If Noach would have lived in the Generation of Avraham in some ways<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach">Shover Zadim Parshas Noach</ref> he would have been more righteous<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> but in other ways<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> he would not have been considered of any importance.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> He was righteous in compression of the 20 from Adom to Avraham but once Avraham appeared Noach was no longer considered righteous.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> <br />
<br />
Noach had three sons; Shem, Cham, and Yafes. Noach's family was listed to indicate that now all the earlier generations were irrelevant.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1">Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1</ref> Nach witnesed the world in three states: Preflood, Flood and Postflood<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1">Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1</ref> and Elifaz Hatimni, Beldad HaShuchi and Tzofer Hanamasi.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> THe name Noach denotes pleasantness, since Noach was pleasant to Hashem, People, Upper Realms, Lower Realms, In This World and in the Next World.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> Noach was very wise.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/><br />
<br />
===World's Perversion===<br />
The world became corrupted with immorality<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11">Rashi Berashis 6:11</ref> idolatry<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11"/> and full of robbery.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11"/> These were all caused by their opposition to the Tzadikim of their generation; Mesushelach and Noach,<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5">Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5</ref> and not receiving their oral teaching of Holiness<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5"/> leading them to twist all the teachings.<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5"/> Hashem saw the corruption and how all creatures including cattle, beasts and birds had corrupted their ways by mating with members of other species.<ref>Rashi Berashis 6:12</ref><br />
<br />
Hashem told Noach that he plans on destroying all life on the world due to their immorality and idolatry which brings death to the world, killing both good and bad.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13">Rashi Berashis 6:13</ref> Despite this their final verdict was sealed only because of mass robbery.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13"/> Even the earth would be destroyed, blotted out and obliterated to the depth of a plowshare, 3 Tefachim,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13"/> roughly a foot (27 cm).<br />
<br />
===Instruction of Ark===<br />
Hashem told Noach to make for himself an ark of gopher wood, which sounds like gophris - sulphur which they were decreed to be destroyed with.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> He should make the ark with compartments which would serve as dwelling places for the domestic animals and wild beasts.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> He was to caulk it both inside and outside with pitch, due to the strength of the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> Moshe's ark which was in calm waters was coated with clay inside and pitch only on the outside.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> Also so the righteous Moshe should not smell the bad odor of pitch.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> <br />
<br />
Noach was to size it: 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high. He was to make a window<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16">Rashi Berashis 6:16</ref> which would server as a skylight for the ark as well as a<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> precious stone, which would generate light.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> <br />
<br />
Its roof should slant upwards narrowing to the width of one cubit which was flat and was not pointed to the end,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> so the waters should run down.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> It should have a door on its side, so that the rain should not enter it. It would have three stories one above the other,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> a bottom for garbage, second story for animal dwelling, and an upper third story for the people.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/><br />
<br />
Although Hashem had many ways to save Noach, he did so through the ark, giving his generation a chance to repent as they inquired about Noach working on it for 120 years and replied that Hashem planed on bringing a flood to the world.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14">Rashi Berashis 6:14</ref><br />
<br />
===Flood Warning===<br />
Hashem announced that He is bringing a flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which there is the spirit of life, from beneath the heavens. Hashem was now ready to agree to the angels who urged Him long ago not to create man.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17">Rashi Berashis 6:17</ref> All that is upon the earth would perish. This flood would wear everything out, mix everything up and move everything from high ground to low ground and floated everything down to Bavel which is deep,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17"/> it was therefore called a בלה, בלבל, הוביל - מבול.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17"/><br />
<br />
Hashem will uphold His covenant with Noach that the fruits will not rot and become moldy<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18">Rashi Berashis 6:18</ref> and that he should not be killed by the wicked of his generation.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18"/> Noach is to enter the ark with his sons, wife and daughter-in-laws, they are prohibited to have marital relations.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18"/><br />
<br />
Noach is to bring with him into the ark at least<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19">Rashi Berashis 6:19</ref> two of each living thing, of all flesh, to preserve their life. These should include one male and one female.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19"/> This included even demons.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19"/> Two from each kind of bird, animal and ground creeper, that did not have relations with other species and corrupts their way,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20">Rashi Berashis 6:20</ref> will come on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20"/> to Noach so he could preserve their life. Those that whom the ark let them enter<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20"/> and did not reject, were to be saved.<br />
<br />
Noach is to take for himself and gather every food that is eaten and it should be for him and them to eat. Noach did according to all that Hashem had commanded him, specifically the building of the ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 6:22</ref><br />
<br />
===Entering Ark Command===<br />
Hashem told Noach to enter the ark along with his household for he has found him a righteous man in his generation. This praise was in front of Noach, therefore Hashem did not call him a 'perfectly righteous man' since we tell only partial praise in a person’s presence and all of it in his absence. <ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:1">Rashi Berashis 7:1</ref><br />
<br />
From all the clean animals Noach should take seven pairs of husband and wife. From the animals that are not clean, Noach should only take two, a single husband and wife. Since Noach studied Torah he knew which animals were going to distained to be pure for the Jewish Nation.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:2">Rashi Berashis 7:2</ref> More kosher animal were taken, so Noach could offer sacrifices from them upon leaving the ark.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:2"/> Also, from the clean<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:3">Rashi Berashis 7:3</ref> birds of the skies, Noach was to take seven pairs, male and female, to keep their seed alive on the face of the earth.<br />
<br />
Hashem declared that in another seven days, He will make it rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights, and He will blot out all beings that He created off the face of the earth. Hashem took into consideration the honor of the tzadik Mesushelach who had passed away when Noach turned 600 and delayed the retribution for an additional<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> seven days of his mourning,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4">Rashi Berashis 7:4</ref> above the originally decreed 120 year period.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> A flood of 40 days was decreed upon them, corresponding to the 40 days it takes to form a fetus, as retribution for burdening their Creator to to form illegitimate children.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> <br />
<br />
Noach did all that Hashem commanded him and entered the Ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 7:5</ref><br />
<br />
===Entering the Ark===<br />
Noach was 600 years old when the when the waters flooded the earth. Noach, his 3 sons, his wife and 3 daughter-in-laws entered the ark because of the waters of the flood. The men entered separately from the women to symbolize that it they were prohibited to have martital relations while the world what suffering.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:7">Rashi Berashis 7:7</ref> Noach had little faith and was not fully certain the flood would take place, he therefore did not enter the ark until he was forced to by the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:7"/> Sets of two, male and female from the clean animals, unclean animals, birds and land creeps arrived on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:9">Rashi Berashis 7:9</ref> to Noach and the ark, just like Hashem commanded. At least one set of two arrived from each species.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:9"/><br />
<br />
The people of his generation threatened to kill Noach and break the ark, if they see him entering it. Hashem announced that he would bring Noach into the ark before their eyes and they would see whose plan prevailed.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:13">Rashi Berashis 7:13</ref> Therefore Noach entered the ark in middle of the day with his sons; Shem, Cham and Yefes, along with his wife and the daughter in laws. They were accompanied by every type of beast, domestic animal, land creeper, birds and flying creatures with appearance of feathers,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:14"/> including locusts. <ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:14">Rashi Berashis 7:14</ref> All flesh that contained spirit of life, came in sets of two, male and female to Noach and the ark, as Hashem had commanded him. Hashem then shut him in the ark, sealing it from water<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:16"/> and protecting him from the masses who wanted to break the ark by surrounding it with bear and lions who would kill them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:16">Rashi Berashis 7:16</ref><br />
<br />
===The Flood===<br />
After the seven day extension, on the 600th year of Noach's life, on the 17th of the second month of the year (Which was either Cheshvon or Iyar),<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11">Rashi Berashis 7:11</ref> all the springs of the great depths ruptured to emit their waters<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11"/> and the portals of the sky opened bringing the flood waters upon the earth. Sine that generation had sinned with 'great' evil they were now punished measure for measure with the waters of the 'great' depths.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11"/><br />
<br />
Hashem began the flood with mercy bringdown light rains that would have concluded as rains of blessing had they repented. When they did not, it turned into a flood.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12">Rashi Berashis 7:12</ref> There was rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights, lasting until the 28th of Kislev<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/> (12 Cheshvon + 28 Kislev).<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/> In truth, it rained for 41 days but the first was not counted since it did not rain during its proceeding night.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/><br />
<br />
When the forty days of flood upon the earth began, the waters increased and lifted the ark, and raising it off the earth. Like all loaded ships, the bottom of the ark remained submerged 11 cubits in the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:17">Rashi Berashis 7:17</ref> The waters became powerful, greatly increased on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:18">Rashi Berashis 7:18</ref> upon the earth, the ark moving above the waters. When the waters became exceedingly powerful upon the earth, all the tall mountains found under the heavens, became covered by water. The mountains were covered by an additional 15 cubits of water above their highest peaks.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:20">Rashi Berashis 7:20</ref><br />
<br />
===Destruction of Life===<br />
All flesh perished that moved upon the earth, including all birds, cattle, beasts, creeping creatures that creep upon the earth and all humans. Everything that breathed the spirit of life in its nostrils,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:22">Rashi Berashis 7:22</ref> that were on dry land died. However the fish that were in the ocean did not die.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:22"/><br />
<br />
<br />
The Flood<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23">Rashi Berashis 7:23</ref> obliterated all beings that were upon the face of the earth, including man, animal, birds of the skys and creeping things. They were obliterated from the earth. Only Noach and those with him in the ark survived. Although Noach survived, it was rough experience for him as well. He was groaning and spitting blood because of the burden taking care of the cattle and beasts.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/> He was also wounded after the lion struck him when he delayed feeding it.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/> This was to eradicate any misdoings of Noach while still in This World, so he would not be punished in the next.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/><br />
<br />
The water prevailed upon the earth for one hundred and fifty days.<br />
<br />
===Permitting of Meat===<br />
They were now permitted to eat animal meat which had not been allowed until then, just like they had been permitted to eat vegetation at the time of Adom.<ref>Rashi Berashis 30</ref><br />
<br />
===Genealogy of Shem===<br />
The descendants of Shem are listed to indicate that now the families of Yefes and Cham were considered irrelevant.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/><br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
<br />
{{Weekly Parsha}}<br />
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[[Category:Parsha]]</div>Dunhttp://zissil.com/topics/Parashat-NoachParashat-Noach2021-10-09T18:22:40Z<p>Dun: /* Destruction of Life */</p>
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<div>Parashat Noach<br />
<br />
==Noach's Ark==<br />
===Noach's Family===<br />
Noach was a righteous man, with good deeds,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9">Rashi Berashis 6:9</ref> the main generations of the righteous.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> He was perfect in his generations who walked in the ways of Hashem who encouraged him, unlike Avraham who would strengthened himself in his righteousness.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> If Noach would have lived in the Generation of Avraham in some ways<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach">Shover Zadim Parshas Noach</ref> he would have been more righteous<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> but in other ways<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> he would not have been considered of any importance.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> He was righteous in compression of the 20 from Adom to Avraham but once Avraham appeared Noach was no longer considered righteous.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> <br />
<br />
Noach had three sons; Shem, Cham, and Yafes. Noach's family was listed to indicate that now all the earlier generations were irrelevant.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1">Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1</ref> Nach witnesed the world in three states: Preflood, Flood and Postflood<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1">Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1</ref> and Elifaz Hatimni, Beldad HaShuchi and Tzofer Hanamasi.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> THe name Noach denotes pleasantness, since Noach was pleasant to Hashem, People, Upper Realms, Lower Realms, In This World and in the Next World.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> Noach was very wise.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/><br />
<br />
===World's Perversion===<br />
The world became corrupted with immorality<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11">Rashi Berashis 6:11</ref> idolatry<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11"/> and full of robbery.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11"/> These were all caused by their opposition to the Tzadikim of their generation; Mesushelach and Noach,<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5">Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5</ref> and not receiving their oral teaching of Holiness<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5"/> leading them to twist all the teachings.<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5"/> Hashem saw the corruption and how all creatures including cattle, beasts and birds had corrupted their ways by mating with members of other species.<ref>Rashi Berashis 6:12</ref><br />
<br />
Hashem told Noach that he plans on destroying all life on the world due to their immorality and idolatry which brings death to the world, killing both good and bad.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13">Rashi Berashis 6:13</ref> Despite this their final verdict was sealed only because of mass robbery.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13"/> Even the earth would be destroyed, blotted out and obliterated to the depth of a plowshare, 3 Tefachim,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13"/> roughly a foot (27 cm).<br />
<br />
===Instruction of Ark===<br />
Hashem told Noach to make for himself an ark of gopher wood, which sounds like gophris - sulphur which they were decreed to be destroyed with.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> He should make the ark with compartments which would serve as dwelling places for the domestic animals and wild beasts.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> He was to caulk it both inside and outside with pitch, due to the strength of the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> Moshe's ark which was in calm waters was coated with clay inside and pitch only on the outside.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> Also so the righteous Moshe should not smell the bad odor of pitch.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> <br />
<br />
Noach was to size it: 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high. He was to make a window<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16">Rashi Berashis 6:16</ref> which would server as a skylight for the ark as well as a<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> precious stone, which would generate light.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> <br />
<br />
Its roof should slant upwards narrowing to the width of one cubit which was flat and was not pointed to the end,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> so the waters should run down.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> It should have a door on its side, so that the rain should not enter it. It would have three stories one above the other,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> a bottom for garbage, second story for animal dwelling, and an upper third story for the people.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/><br />
<br />
Although Hashem had many ways to save Noach, he did so through the ark, giving his generation a chance to repent as they inquired about Noach working on it for 120 years and replied that Hashem planed on bringing a flood to the world.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14">Rashi Berashis 6:14</ref><br />
<br />
===Flood Warning===<br />
Hashem announced that He is bringing a flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which there is the spirit of life, from beneath the heavens. Hashem was now ready to agree to the angels who urged Him long ago not to create man.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17">Rashi Berashis 6:17</ref> All that is upon the earth would perish. This flood would wear everything out, mix everything up and move everything from high ground to low ground and floated everything down to Bavel which is deep,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17"/> it was therefore called a בלה, בלבל, הוביל - מבול.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17"/><br />
<br />
Hashem will uphold His covenant with Noach that the fruits will not rot and become moldy<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18">Rashi Berashis 6:18</ref> and that he should not be killed by the wicked of his generation.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18"/> Noach is to enter the ark with his sons, wife and daughter-in-laws, they are prohibited to have marital relations.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18"/><br />
<br />
Noach is to bring with him into the ark at least<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19">Rashi Berashis 6:19</ref> two of each living thing, of all flesh, to preserve their life. These should include one male and one female.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19"/> This included even demons.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19"/> Two from each kind of bird, animal and ground creeper, that did not have relations with other species and corrupts their way,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20">Rashi Berashis 6:20</ref> will come on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20"/> to Noach so he could preserve their life. Those that whom the ark let them enter<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20"/> and did not reject, were to be saved.<br />
<br />
Noach is to take for himself and gather every food that is eaten and it should be for him and them to eat. Noach did according to all that Hashem had commanded him, specifically the building of the ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 6:22</ref><br />
<br />
===Entering Ark Command===<br />
Hashem told Noach to enter the ark along with his household for he has found him a righteous man in his generation. This praise was in front of Noach, therefore Hashem did not call him a 'perfectly righteous man' since we tell only partial praise in a person’s presence and all of it in his absence. <ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:1">Rashi Berashis 7:1</ref><br />
<br />
From all the clean animals Noach should take seven pairs of husband and wife. From the animals that are not clean, Noach should only take two, a single husband and wife. Since Noach studied Torah he knew which animals were going to distained to be pure for the Jewish Nation.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:2">Rashi Berashis 7:2</ref> More kosher animal were taken, so Noach could offer sacrifices from them upon leaving the ark.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:2"/> Also, from the clean<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:3">Rashi Berashis 7:3</ref> birds of the skies, Noach was to take seven pairs, male and female, to keep their seed alive on the face of the earth.<br />
<br />
Hashem declared that in another seven days, He will make it rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights, and He will blot out all beings that He created off the face of the earth. Hashem took into consideration the honor of the tzadik Mesushelach who had passed away when Noach turned 600 and delayed the retribution for an additional<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> seven days of his mourning,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4">Rashi Berashis 7:4</ref> above the originally decreed 120 year period.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> A flood of 40 days was decreed upon them, corresponding to the 40 days it takes to form a fetus, as retribution for burdening their Creator to to form illegitimate children.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> <br />
<br />
Noach did all that Hashem commanded him and entered the Ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 7:5</ref><br />
<br />
===Entering the Ark===<br />
Noach was 600 years old when the when the waters flooded the earth. Noach, his 3 sons, his wife and 3 daughter-in-laws entered the ark because of the waters of the flood. The men entered separately from the women to symbolize that it they were prohibited to have martital relations while the world what suffering.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:7">Rashi Berashis 7:7</ref> Noach had little faith and was not fully certain the flood would take place, he therefore did not enter the ark until he was forced to by the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:7"/> Sets of two, male and female from the clean animals, unclean animals, birds and land creeps arrived on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:9">Rashi Berashis 7:9</ref> to Noach and the ark, just like Hashem commanded. At least one set of two arrived from each species.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:9"/><br />
<br />
The people of his generation threatened to kill Noach and break the ark, if they see him entering it. Hashem announced that he would bring Noach into the ark before their eyes and they would see whose plan prevailed.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:13">Rashi Berashis 7:13</ref> Therefore Noach entered the ark in middle of the day with his sons; Shem, Cham and Yefes, along with his wife and the daughter in laws. They were accompanied by every type of beast, domestic animal, land creeper, birds and flying creatures with appearance of feathers,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:14"/> including locusts. <ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:14">Rashi Berashis 7:14</ref> All flesh that contained spirit of life, came in sets of two, male and female to Noach and the ark, as Hashem had commanded him. Hashem then shut him in the ark, sealing it from water<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:16"/> and protecting him from the masses who wanted to break the ark by surrounding it with bear and lions who would kill them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:16">Rashi Berashis 7:16</ref><br />
<br />
===The Flood===<br />
After the seven day extension, on the 600th year of Noach's life, on the 17th of the second month of the year (Which was either Cheshvon or Iyar),<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11">Rashi Berashis 7:11</ref> all the springs of the great depths ruptured to emit their waters<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11"/> and the portals of the sky opened bringing the flood waters upon the earth. Sine that generation had sinned with 'great' evil they were now punished measure for measure with the waters of the 'great' depths.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11"/><br />
<br />
Hashem began the flood with mercy bringdown light rains that would have concluded as rains of blessing had they repented. When they did not, it turned into a flood.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12">Rashi Berashis 7:12</ref> There was rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights, lasting until the 28th of Kislev<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/> (12 Cheshvon + 28 Kislev).<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/> In truth, it rained for 41 days but the first was not counted since it did not rain during its proceeding night.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/><br />
<br />
When the forty days of flood upon the earth began, the waters increased and lifted the ark, and raising it off the earth. Like all loaded ships, the bottom of the ark remained submerged 11 cubits in the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:17">Rashi Berashis 7:17</ref> The waters became powerful, greatly increased on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:18">Rashi Berashis 7:18</ref> upon the earth, the ark moving above the waters. When the waters became exceedingly powerful upon the earth, all the tall mountains found under the heavens, became covered by water. The mountains were covered by an additional 15 cubits of water above their highest peaks.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:20">Rashi Berashis 7:20</ref><br />
<br />
===Destruction of Life===<br />
All flesh perished that moved upon the earth, including all birds, cattle, beasts, creeping creatures that creep upon the earth and all humans. Everything that breathed the spirit of life in its nostrils,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:22">Rashi Berashis 7:22</ref> that were on dry land died. However the fish that were in the ocean did not die.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:22"/><br />
<br />
<br />
The Flood obliterated all beings that were upon the face of the earth, including man, animal, birds of the skys and creeping things. They were obliterated from the earth. Only Noach and those with him in the ark survived. The water prevailed upon the earth for one hundred and fifty days.<br />
<br />
===Permitting of Meat===<br />
They were now permitted to eat animal meat which had not been allowed until then, just like they had been permitted to eat vegetation at the time of Adom.<ref>Rashi Berashis 30</ref><br />
<br />
===Genealogy of Shem===<br />
The descendants of Shem are listed to indicate that now the families of Yefes and Cham were considered irrelevant.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/><br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
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{{Weekly Parsha}}<br />
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<div>Parashat Noach<br />
<br />
==Noach's Ark==<br />
===Noach's Family===<br />
Noach was a righteous man, with good deeds,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9">Rashi Berashis 6:9</ref> the main generations of the righteous.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> He was perfect in his generations who walked in the ways of Hashem who encouraged him, unlike Avraham who would strengthened himself in his righteousness.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> If Noach would have lived in the Generation of Avraham in some ways<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach">Shover Zadim Parshas Noach</ref> he would have been more righteous<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> but in other ways<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> he would not have been considered of any importance.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> He was righteous in compression of the 20 from Adom to Avraham but once Avraham appeared Noach was no longer considered righteous.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> <br />
<br />
Noach had three sons; Shem, Cham, and Yafes. Noach's family was listed to indicate that now all the earlier generations were irrelevant.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1">Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1</ref> Nach witnesed the world in three states: Preflood, Flood and Postflood<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1">Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1</ref> and Elifaz Hatimni, Beldad HaShuchi and Tzofer Hanamasi.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> THe name Noach denotes pleasantness, since Noach was pleasant to Hashem, People, Upper Realms, Lower Realms, In This World and in the Next World.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> Noach was very wise.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/><br />
<br />
===World's Perversion===<br />
The world became corrupted with immorality<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11">Rashi Berashis 6:11</ref> idolatry<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11"/> and full of robbery.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11"/> These were all caused by their opposition to the Tzadikim of their generation; Mesushelach and Noach,<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5">Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5</ref> and not receiving their oral teaching of Holiness<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5"/> leading them to twist all the teachings.<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5"/> Hashem saw the corruption and how all creatures including cattle, beasts and birds had corrupted their ways by mating with members of other species.<ref>Rashi Berashis 6:12</ref><br />
<br />
Hashem told Noach that he plans on destroying all life on the world due to their immorality and idolatry which brings death to the world, killing both good and bad.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13">Rashi Berashis 6:13</ref> Despite this their final verdict was sealed only because of mass robbery.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13"/> Even the earth would be destroyed, blotted out and obliterated to the depth of a plowshare, 3 Tefachim,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13"/> roughly a foot (27 cm).<br />
<br />
===Instruction of Ark===<br />
Hashem told Noach to make for himself an ark of gopher wood, which sounds like gophris - sulphur which they were decreed to be destroyed with.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> He should make the ark with compartments which would serve as dwelling places for the domestic animals and wild beasts.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> He was to caulk it both inside and outside with pitch, due to the strength of the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> Moshe's ark which was in calm waters was coated with clay inside and pitch only on the outside.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> Also so the righteous Moshe should not smell the bad odor of pitch.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> <br />
<br />
Noach was to size it: 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high. He was to make a window<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16">Rashi Berashis 6:16</ref> which would server as a skylight for the ark as well as a<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> precious stone, which would generate light.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> <br />
<br />
Its roof should slant upwards narrowing to the width of one cubit which was flat and was not pointed to the end,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> so the waters should run down.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> It should have a door on its side, so that the rain should not enter it. It would have three stories one above the other,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> a bottom for garbage, second story for animal dwelling, and an upper third story for the people.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/><br />
<br />
Although Hashem had many ways to save Noach, he did so through the ark, giving his generation a chance to repent as they inquired about Noach working on it for 120 years and replied that Hashem planed on bringing a flood to the world.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14">Rashi Berashis 6:14</ref><br />
<br />
===Flood Warning===<br />
Hashem announced that He is bringing a flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which there is the spirit of life, from beneath the heavens. Hashem was now ready to agree to the angels who urged Him long ago not to create man.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17">Rashi Berashis 6:17</ref> All that is upon the earth would perish. This flood would wear everything out, mix everything up and move everything from high ground to low ground and floated everything down to Bavel which is deep,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17"/> it was therefore called a בלה, בלבל, הוביל - מבול.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17"/><br />
<br />
Hashem will uphold His covenant with Noach that the fruits will not rot and become moldy<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18">Rashi Berashis 6:18</ref> and that he should not be killed by the wicked of his generation.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18"/> Noach is to enter the ark with his sons, wife and daughter-in-laws, they are prohibited to have marital relations.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18"/><br />
<br />
Noach is to bring with him into the ark at least<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19">Rashi Berashis 6:19</ref> two of each living thing, of all flesh, to preserve their life. These should include one male and one female.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19"/> This included even demons.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19"/> Two from each kind of bird, animal and ground creeper, that did not have relations with other species and corrupts their way,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20">Rashi Berashis 6:20</ref> will come on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20"/> to Noach so he could preserve their life. Those that whom the ark let them enter<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20"/> and did not reject, were to be saved.<br />
<br />
Noach is to take for himself and gather every food that is eaten and it should be for him and them to eat. Noach did according to all that Hashem had commanded him, specifically the building of the ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 6:22</ref><br />
<br />
===Entering Ark Command===<br />
Hashem told Noach to enter the ark along with his household for he has found him a righteous man in his generation. This praise was in front of Noach, therefore Hashem did not call him a 'perfectly righteous man' since we tell only partial praise in a person’s presence and all of it in his absence. <ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:1">Rashi Berashis 7:1</ref><br />
<br />
From all the clean animals Noach should take seven pairs of husband and wife. From the animals that are not clean, Noach should only take two, a single husband and wife. Since Noach studied Torah he knew which animals were going to distained to be pure for the Jewish Nation.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:2">Rashi Berashis 7:2</ref> More kosher animal were taken, so Noach could offer sacrifices from them upon leaving the ark.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:2"/> Also, from the clean<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:3">Rashi Berashis 7:3</ref> birds of the skies, Noach was to take seven pairs, male and female, to keep their seed alive on the face of the earth.<br />
<br />
Hashem declared that in another seven days, He will make it rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights, and He will blot out all beings that He created off the face of the earth. Hashem took into consideration the honor of the tzadik Mesushelach who had passed away when Noach turned 600 and delayed the retribution for an additional<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> seven days of his mourning,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4">Rashi Berashis 7:4</ref> above the originally decreed 120 year period.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> A flood of 40 days was decreed upon them, corresponding to the 40 days it takes to form a fetus, as retribution for burdening their Creator to to form illegitimate children.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> <br />
<br />
Noach did all that Hashem commanded him and entered the Ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 7:5</ref><br />
<br />
===Entering the Ark===<br />
Noach was 600 years old when the when the waters flooded the earth. Noach, his 3 sons, his wife and 3 daughter-in-laws entered the ark because of the waters of the flood. The men entered separately from the women to symbolize that it they were prohibited to have martital relations while the world what suffering.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:7">Rashi Berashis 7:7</ref> Noach had little faith and was not fully certain the flood would take place, he therefore did not enter the ark until he was forced to by the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:7"/> Sets of two, male and female from the clean animals, unclean animals, birds and land creeps arrived on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:9">Rashi Berashis 7:9</ref> to Noach and the ark, just like Hashem commanded. At least one set of two arrived from each species.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:9"/><br />
<br />
The people of his generation threatened to kill Noach and break the ark, if they see him entering it. Hashem announced that he would bring Noach into the ark before their eyes and they would see whose plan prevailed.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:13">Rashi Berashis 7:13</ref> Therefore Noach entered the ark in middle of the day with his sons; Shem, Cham and Yefes, along with his wife and the daughter in laws. They were accompanied by every type of beast, domestic animal, land creeper, birds and flying creatures with appearance of feathers,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:14"/> including locusts. <ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:14">Rashi Berashis 7:14</ref> All flesh that contained spirit of life, came in sets of two, male and female to Noach and the ark, as Hashem had commanded him. Hashem then shut him in the ark, sealing it from water<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:16"/> and protecting him from the masses who wanted to break the ark by surrounding it with bear and lions who would kill them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:16">Rashi Berashis 7:16</ref><br />
<br />
===The Flood===<br />
After the seven day extension, on the 600th year of Noach's life, on the 17th of the second month of the year (Which was either Cheshvon or Iyar),<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11">Rashi Berashis 7:11</ref> all the springs of the great depths ruptured to emit their waters<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11"/> and the portals of the sky opened bringing the flood waters upon the earth. Sine that generation had sinned with 'great' evil they were now punished measure for measure with the waters of the 'great' depths.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11"/><br />
<br />
Hashem began the flood with mercy bringdown light rains that would have concluded as rains of blessing had they repented. When they did not, it turned into a flood.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12">Rashi Berashis 7:12</ref> There was rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights, lasting until the 28th of Kislev<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/> (12 Cheshvon + 28 Kislev).<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/> In truth, it rained for 41 days but the first was not counted since it did not rain during its proceeding night.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/><br />
<br />
When the forty days of flood upon the earth began, the waters increased and lifted the ark, and raising it off the earth. Like all loaded ships, the bottom of the ark remained submerged 11 cubits in the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:17">Rashi Berashis 7:17</ref> The waters became powerful, greatly increased on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:18">Rashi Berashis 7:18</ref> upon the earth, the ark moving above the waters. When the waters became exceedingly powerful upon the earth, all the tall mountains found under the heavens, became covered by water. The mountains were covered by an additional 15 cubits of water above their highest peaks.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:20">Rashi Berashis 7:20</ref><br />
<br />
===Destruction of Life===<br />
All flesh perished that moved upon the earth, including all birds, cattle, beasts, creeping creatures that creep upon the earth and all humans. Everything that breathed the spirit of life in its nostrils,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:22">Rashi Berashis 7:22</ref> that were on dry land died. However the fish that were in the ocean did not die.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:22"/><br />
<br />
===Permitting of Meat===<br />
They were now permitted to eat animal meat which had not been allowed until then, just like they had been permitted to eat vegetation at the time of Adom.<ref>Rashi Berashis 30</ref><br />
<br />
===Genealogy of Shem===<br />
The descendants of Shem are listed to indicate that now the families of Yefes and Cham were considered irrelevant.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/><br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
<br />
{{Weekly Parsha}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Parsha]]</div>Dunhttp://zissil.com/topics/Parashat-NoachParashat-Noach2021-10-05T22:07:30Z<p>Dun: /* The Flood */</p>
<hr />
<div>Parashat Noach<br />
<br />
==Noach's Ark==<br />
===Noach's Family===<br />
Noach was a righteous man, with good deeds,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9">Rashi Berashis 6:9</ref> the main generations of the righteous.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> He was perfect in his generations who walked in the ways of Hashem who encouraged him, unlike Avraham who would strengthened himself in his righteousness.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> If Noach would have lived in the Generation of Avraham in some ways<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach">Shover Zadim Parshas Noach</ref> he would have been more righteous<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> but in other ways<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> he would not have been considered of any importance.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> He was righteous in compression of the 20 from Adom to Avraham but once Avraham appeared Noach was no longer considered righteous.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> <br />
<br />
Noach had three sons; Shem, Cham, and Yafes. Noach's family was listed to indicate that now all the earlier generations were irrelevant.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1">Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1</ref> Nach witnesed the world in three states: Preflood, Flood and Postflood<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1">Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1</ref> and Elifaz Hatimni, Beldad HaShuchi and Tzofer Hanamasi.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> THe name Noach denotes pleasantness, since Noach was pleasant to Hashem, People, Upper Realms, Lower Realms, In This World and in the Next World.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> Noach was very wise.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/><br />
<br />
===World's Perversion===<br />
The world became corrupted with immorality<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11">Rashi Berashis 6:11</ref> idolatry<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11"/> and full of robbery.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:11"/> These were all caused by their opposition to the Tzadikim of their generation; Mesushelach and Noach,<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5">Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5</ref> and not receiving their oral teaching of Holiness<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5"/> leading them to twist all the teachings.<ref name="Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Reshis Hagaz 5"/> Hashem saw the corruption and how all creatures including cattle, beasts and birds had corrupted their ways by mating with members of other species.<ref>Rashi Berashis 6:12</ref><br />
<br />
Hashem told Noach that he plans on destroying all life on the world due to their immorality and idolatry which brings death to the world, killing both good and bad.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13">Rashi Berashis 6:13</ref> Despite this their final verdict was sealed only because of mass robbery.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13"/> Even the earth would be destroyed, blotted out and obliterated to the depth of a plowshare, 3 Tefachim,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:13"/> roughly a foot (27 cm).<br />
<br />
===Instruction of Ark===<br />
Hashem told Noach to make for himself an ark of gopher wood, which sounds like gophris - sulphur which they were decreed to be destroyed with.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> He should make the ark with compartments which would serve as dwelling places for the domestic animals and wild beasts.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> He was to caulk it both inside and outside with pitch, due to the strength of the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> Moshe's ark which was in calm waters was coated with clay inside and pitch only on the outside.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> Also so the righteous Moshe should not smell the bad odor of pitch.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14"/> <br />
<br />
Noach was to size it: 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high. He was to make a window<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16">Rashi Berashis 6:16</ref> which would server as a skylight for the ark as well as a<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> precious stone, which would generate light.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> <br />
<br />
Its roof should slant upwards narrowing to the width of one cubit which was flat and was not pointed to the end,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> so the waters should run down.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> It should have a door on its side, so that the rain should not enter it. It would have three stories one above the other,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/> a bottom for garbage, second story for animal dwelling, and an upper third story for the people.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:16"/><br />
<br />
Although Hashem had many ways to save Noach, he did so through the ark, giving his generation a chance to repent as they inquired about Noach working on it for 120 years and replied that Hashem planed on bringing a flood to the world.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:14">Rashi Berashis 6:14</ref><br />
<br />
===Flood Warning===<br />
Hashem announced that He is bringing a flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which there is the spirit of life, from beneath the heavens. Hashem was now ready to agree to the angels who urged Him long ago not to create man.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17">Rashi Berashis 6:17</ref> All that is upon the earth would perish. This flood would wear everything out, mix everything up and move everything from high ground to low ground and floated everything down to Bavel which is deep,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17"/> it was therefore called a בלה, בלבל, הוביל - מבול.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:17"/><br />
<br />
Hashem will uphold His covenant with Noach that the fruits will not rot and become moldy<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18">Rashi Berashis 6:18</ref> and that he should not be killed by the wicked of his generation.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18"/> Noach is to enter the ark with his sons, wife and daughter-in-laws, they are prohibited to have marital relations.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:18"/><br />
<br />
Noach is to bring with him into the ark at least<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19">Rashi Berashis 6:19</ref> two of each living thing, of all flesh, to preserve their life. These should include one male and one female.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19"/> This included even demons.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:19"/> Two from each kind of bird, animal and ground creeper, that did not have relations with other species and corrupts their way,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20">Rashi Berashis 6:20</ref> will come on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20"/> to Noach so he could preserve their life. Those that whom the ark let them enter<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:20"/> and did not reject, were to be saved.<br />
<br />
Noach is to take for himself and gather every food that is eaten and it should be for him and them to eat. Noach did according to all that Hashem had commanded him, specifically the building of the ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 6:22</ref><br />
<br />
===Entering Ark Command===<br />
Hashem told Noach to enter the ark along with his household for he has found him a righteous man in his generation. This praise was in front of Noach, therefore Hashem did not call him a 'perfectly righteous man' since we tell only partial praise in a person’s presence and all of it in his absence. <ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:1">Rashi Berashis 7:1</ref><br />
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From all the clean animals Noach should take seven pairs of husband and wife. From the animals that are not clean, Noach should only take two, a single husband and wife. Since Noach studied Torah he knew which animals were going to distained to be pure for the Jewish Nation.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:2">Rashi Berashis 7:2</ref> More kosher animal were taken, so Noach could offer sacrifices from them upon leaving the ark.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:2"/> Also, from the clean<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:3">Rashi Berashis 7:3</ref> birds of the skies, Noach was to take seven pairs, male and female, to keep their seed alive on the face of the earth.<br />
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Hashem declared that in another seven days, He will make it rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights, and He will blot out all beings that He created off the face of the earth. Hashem took into consideration the honor of the tzadik Mesushelach who had passed away when Noach turned 600 and delayed the retribution for an additional<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> seven days of his mourning,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4">Rashi Berashis 7:4</ref> above the originally decreed 120 year period.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> A flood of 40 days was decreed upon them, corresponding to the 40 days it takes to form a fetus, as retribution for burdening their Creator to to form illegitimate children.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:4"/> <br />
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Noach did all that Hashem commanded him and entered the Ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 7:5</ref><br />
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===Entering the Ark===<br />
Noach was 600 years old when the when the waters flooded the earth. Noach, his 3 sons, his wife and 3 daughter-in-laws entered the ark because of the waters of the flood. The men entered separately from the women to symbolize that it they were prohibited to have martital relations while the world what suffering.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:7">Rashi Berashis 7:7</ref> Noach had little faith and was not fully certain the flood would take place, he therefore did not enter the ark until he was forced to by the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:7"/> Sets of two, male and female from the clean animals, unclean animals, birds and land creeps arrived on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:9">Rashi Berashis 7:9</ref> to Noach and the ark, just like Hashem commanded. At least one set of two arrived from each species.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:9"/><br />
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The people of his generation threatened to kill Noach and break the ark, if they see him entering it. Hashem announced that he would bring Noach into the ark before their eyes and they would see whose plan prevailed.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:13">Rashi Berashis 7:13</ref> Therefore Noach entered the ark in middle of the day with his sons; Shem, Cham and Yefes, along with his wife and the daughter in laws. They were accompanied by every type of beast, domestic animal, land creeper, birds and flying creatures with appearance of feathers,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:14"/> including locusts. <ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:14">Rashi Berashis 7:14</ref> All flesh that contained spirit of life, came in sets of two, male and female to Noach and the ark, as Hashem had commanded him. Hashem then shut him in the ark, sealing it from water<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:16"/> and protecting him from the masses who wanted to break the ark by surrounding it with bear and lions who would kill them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:16">Rashi Berashis 7:16</ref><br />
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===The Flood===<br />
After the seven day extension, on the 600th year of Noach's life, on the 17th of the second month of the year (Which was either Cheshvon or Iyar),<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11">Rashi Berashis 7:11</ref> all the springs of the great depths ruptured to emit their waters<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11"/> and the portals of the sky opened bringing the flood waters upon the earth. Sine that generation had sinned with 'great' evil they were now punished measure for measure with the waters of the 'great' depths.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11"/><br />
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Hashem began the flood with mercy bringdown light rains that would have concluded as rains of blessing had they repented. When they did not, it turned into a flood.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12">Rashi Berashis 7:12</ref> There was rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights, lasting until the 28th of Kislev<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/> (12 Cheshvon + 28 Kislev).<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/> In truth, it rained for 41 days but the first was not counted since it did not rain during its proceeding night.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/><br />
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When the forty days of flood upon the earth began, the waters increased and lifted the ark, and raising it off the earth. Like all loaded ships, the bottom of the ark remained submerged 11 cubits in the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:17">Rashi Berashis 7:17</ref> The waters became powerful, greatly increased on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:18">Rashi Berashis 7:18</ref> upon the earth, the ark moving above the waters. When the waters became exceedingly powerful upon the earth, all the tall mountains found under the heavens, became covered by water. The mountains were covered by an additional 15 cubits of water above their highest peaks.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:20">Rashi Berashis 7:20</ref><br />
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===Permitting of Meat===<br />
They were now permitted to eat animal meat which had not been allowed until then, just like they had been permitted to eat vegetation at the time of Adom.<ref>Rashi Berashis 30</ref><br />
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===Genealogy of Shem===<br />
The descendants of Shem are listed to indicate that now the families of Yefes and Cham were considered irrelevant.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/><br />
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