Usually Parshas חיי שרה Falls on the Shabbos That Precedes חודש כסלו, כס the Hidden Light

חיי שרה בס"ד חודש כסלו, falls on the Shabbos that precedes חיי שרה Usually Parshas thirty six hours. In ,לו that was lit for ,אור הגנוז the hidden light, the כס and the ילקוט ראובני the ,זוהר חדש The .גן עדן this Parsha, we encounter When .גן עדן to פתח was the מערת המכפלה all say that the מגלה עמוקות he entered the cave, and felt the ,בקר Avraham was chasing after the have to go נשמות ישראל All .קבר are the letters קדושה –בקר tremendous first through here. There was another test that Avraham had to experience after what appears to be the final test of the Akeida. The Sara ,עקידה was trying to instill regret in Avraham, that due to the שטן - every day, we say תפילת ערבית died early. In our is trying to prevent us שטן מלפנינו where the ,והסר שטן מלפנינו ומאחרינו he’s trying to instill in us either ,מאחרינו from doing mitzvos, and haughtiness in how great an act we did, or regret with the mitzva that after succeeding אברהם we just performed. Of course no gaiva entered because we see that after the ,עקידה in the greatest act in history, the as if he ,וישב אברהם אל נעריו ויקמו וילכו יחדו says כד:יט the pasuk עקידה was “one of the boys”. We also see that Avraham didn’t have any When it came to mourn Sara, it says .עקידה regrets going to the is written small, demonstrating that כ the ,ויבא אברהם לספד לשרה ולב כ תה Avraham didn’t cry too much since he held Sara passed away in the exact time that she was supposed to, living a full life as the pasuk says that Avraham having to pay נסיבת השלום The . שני חיי שרה repeats such an absorbent price after being promised by Hashem that we .and not complain, was another test ,א"י would inherit all of

one of the things that was created ,קדם Gan Eden is referred to as for the ארבע מאות שקל כסף Therefore Avraham paid .בריאה before the – גן עדן entrance to The .ויהיו חיי שרה=570=ויטע הויה אלה-ים גן בעדן מקדם=570=עבר לסחר says that the ten tests of Avraham are parallel to the שפת אמת and מאמר is the first בראשית ,According to the Gemorra .עשרה מאמרות is not a בראשית ,and according to the Zohar ,תדשה דשא the tenth is לא טוב היות האדם לבדו אעשה and the tenth ויהי אור and so the first is ,מאמר ,מאמר is the eleventh בראשית ,According to the Zohar .לו עזר כנגדו above ,כתר represents קדם or בראשית ,where from the bottom to the top ,עשרת הדברות is the first of the אנכי says that רמב"ם The .ספירות the ten ,is not counted as one of the ten אנכי whereas the Ramban, says that but is higher and a prerequisite to all ten. So according to the Ramban, there ,קריאת ים סוף really at ,עשר מכות is the eleventh. Also with the אנכי 2

is considered קריאת ים סוף ,Therefore .הגדה as we read in the מכות were ,קריאת ים סוף Finding one’s soul mate is compared to .מכה the eleventh the ,כתר are rooted in this eleventh level, the זווגים because all Avraham’s test here in not blaming himself for Sara’s .פתח לגן עדן apparent “early death”, and paying such a huge sum for the was the eleventh test, as the Slonimer said. Even though מערת המכפלה was finished, and passed by Avraham with flying עקידה the test of the colors, later Avraham did ask questions. By this eleventh test, no questions were asked and no complaints were given, and so this was to פתח Chanuka is also the .עקידה even greater in some ways to the to Avraham, were מערה The ones that sold the .שמיני - eight days -גן עדן and ,קדמה The last of Yishmael’s twelve sons was .בני חית -(the (eight נחש הקמוני corresponding to the ,קדמוני Esav was also referred to as took us חטא עץ הדעת The .גן עדן who caused Adam to be banished from In .גן עדן and Avraham and Sara bring us closer to ,גן עדן away from and others בעל הטורים the ,ויבאה יצחק האהלה our Parsha when it says ,by Adam. Hashem brought Chava to Adam ויבאה connect this to the says that מגלה עמוקות where the ,חטא עץ הדעת by theנפגם but this was .hatred, the tikun of this, being here - ואיבה became ויבאה the

Three of Yishmael’s children are written here in one pasuk. There was .מוצ"ש a custom to say all pesukim that have only three words, on When the Tamanim were having trouble with the Yishmaelim, the Rambam wrote them that the way to sudue them was in this pasuk ,משמע -They should hear their insults .משמע דומה משא -with three words and realize that everything is ,משא -and endure them ,דומה -keep quiet ולמקללי נפשי תדום it says ,שמונה עשרה from Hashem. At the end of the that if someone curses us, we’re silent. If one guards his mouth in the -and say intelligent things ,חדד -proper way, he’ll merit to be sharp -will be guarded by Hashem ,נפש The one who guards his .ותימה and he’ll merit ,קדם -and even if he falls, he’ll move forward ,יטור נפיש These are the lessons we could learn even from the names .-קדם גן עדן מערת המכפלה originate in תפילות All .ישמעאל given to the children of .which is tefilla ,מכל פה is a combination of the words מכפלה The word is to keep quiet when insulted and to pour ישמעאל The way to subdue .גלות ישמעאל=890=נפשי תדום=890=מערת המכפלה on our prayers begins with תולדות and ,על פני כל אחיו נפל ends with פרשה The will rise, when (דוד –הפטרה and) יצחק implying that ,ואלה תולדות יצחק .בעל הטורים) - דור אחרון=475=על פני כל אחיו נפל) falls ישמעאל began his rule דוד המלך the place where ,חברון is in מערת המכפלה The 3 for thirty three years. Both י"ם ruled in דוד ,for seven years. After this מ -the future world ,שמיני are connected to י"ם and חברון and tefillos first go נשמות The .מ שין יוד חת=868=חברון וירושלים fulfilling ,שליח נאמן Eliezer was a .י"ם and then through חברון through to marry his יצחק faithfully, even though he desired שליחות his in Hashem, that he gave the jewelry to בטחון daughter. He had such of Eliezer is a שליחות Rivka even before asking who she was. The מיחד קודשא בריך of all yidden in the world to שליחות metaphor for the who was from כוש from נמרוד Eliezer was the son of .הוא ושכינתיה it says that Eliezer ,בוא ברוך הויה When Lavan said to Eliezer .ארור כנען in the שידוכים All .ארור from his previous status of ברוך became a the first Jewish ,רבקה and יצחק world stem from the marriage of of נצוץ was a ריש לקיש marriage. Rav Shimshon Astropoli says that who ישרא הישמעאלי was ישמעאל that came from גר Yishmael. The only was fitting to be a yid. He stuck a sword דוד told Doeg and Shaul that in the ground, and said that whoever denied the Halacha of would be killed by the sword. Strangely, it was a מואבי ולא מואבית Even though .מלכות בית דוד convert of Yishmael that solidified nothing good came from him except for ,תשובה Yishmael did the ,ריש לקיש .Rav Shimon Ben Lakish -ריש לקיש and ישרא הישמעאלי has a similar spelling to Yishmael- the ,תורה שבעל פה powerhouse of four words which the Zohar) לו ישמעאל יחיה לפניך Avraham said .ש מ ע and לו מסכתות corresponds to the לו says we suffer till today), and the which was a revelation of T.B.P. Chanuka is חנוכה candles of לו the 36- .פה=the 85th day of the year- 85

This is the .מבוא באר לחי ראי it says that Yitzhak came to כד:סב In pasuk the angel came to Hagar and told her of the לך לך place that in means the well that Hashemבאר לחי ראי .impending birth of Yishmael .went there to bring Hagar to Avraham יצחק appears. Rashi says that ,mentioned at the end of the Parsha. After that קטורה This is the same Yitzhak settled there. The Torah does not mention where Yitzhak went says that מדרש until Eliezer came back with Rivka. The ,עקידה after the קדוש he was a ,עקידה alive for three years. After the גן עדן went to יצחק ,When Rivka saw Yitzhak, she fell off the camel .קרבן עולה like a The reason Yitzhak went to .קדושה because she saw such awesome of T.B.P. in קדושה was to make sure that this כה:יא -באר לחי ראי כלל ישראל- remains with ישרא הישמעאלי and ריש לקיש .תורה שבעל פה=1098=וישב יצחק עם באר לחי ראי רב יוחנן by מקרב Resh Lakish met, and was .באר T.B.P is compared to a 4 is a blast of light from the future, and Yitzhak חנוכה .in a body of water קשת and the ,קשת is the כסלו of מזל into the world. The גן עדן brought קשת which is the ,תפילה The yidden have .ישמעאל- רובה קשת represents and the ,אדום will deal with משיח בן יוסף The .ישמעאל needed to subdue and is the גמר חתימה is the כה כסליו .will destroy Yishmael משיח בן דוד .בכה בכסליו=155=וקדמה for the downfall of Yishmael מסוגל which is זמן as they say that Gan ,גן עדן Yishmael wish to prevent the yidden of .(which is nonsense ,תענוג גשמי is גן עדן Eden is theirs (their concept of

.יהוידע given is סימן is 105, and the חיי שרה The number of pesukim in When .אמונה in the world is through דעת The way to reveal the ultimate of both Avraham and Sara in this Parsha, we פטירה reading of the of Yishmael קליפה and we could combat the , פי שנים could experience . והוא יהיה פרא אדם ידו בכל ויד כל בו=524=תלמוד בבלי=524=ומשם יקחך is where Sara really lived. This was after ,ויהיו =where 37 ויהיו חיי שרה Itzhak was born, which was the last 37 years of Sara’s life. The city of is called so because of the four giants that lived there, who קרית ארבע or because of ,ארבע מראות נגעים or the ,כוחות הטומאה represent the four The Klausenberg .מערת המכפלה the four couples that were buried in the are the four words קריאת ארבע or ,קרית ארבע says that (בניו דוד)- Rebbi ,אמנם אלד ואני זקנתי that Sara said that were the cause of her death where she questioned if she could really have children. He says that which was still a lack ,מתפעל Sara was not really laughing, but she was are also קרית ארבע says that זוהר חדש of faith in Hashem’s eyes. The which ,הויה אלה-ינו הויה אחד the last four words she said ,קריאת ארבע שני חיי שרה On .אמנם אלד ואני זקנתי were a tikun for the four words implying that Sara didn’t complain even כולן שוין לטובה Rashi says that the first ninety years, like the last thirty seven years. She was pure, .אמונה in her תמים when it ,וירא in Chumash is in Parshas מערה The only other time it says concerning Lot and his daughters. Why there does it וישב במערה says implying the cave? Maybe we ,ב with a pasuch under the במערה say .(the cave (Rav Sitorsky ,מערת המכפלה could say that this cave was the a dark empty ,קרית ארבע it was in ,מערה Before Avraham bought the the field had ,ויקם שדה עפרון space. After Avraham bought it, it became The Tiferes Yisrael .יצא מיד הדיוט ליד מלך as it says ,עליה an ,תקומה a is where the name idiot originates. However what it הדיוט says that this ערלה really means is simple average person, not a fool. Now the .עפר – עפרון of the cave) has been removed and thrown into the) 5

חודש מרחשון=922=מלכות בית דוד is the month of the building of מרחשון of מרידה The .הפטרה - ומלך דוד and the last Parsha of the month has the and so the tikun is also in this month. The מרחשון was also in ד.ב.מ ,א"י the day the yidden would have entered ,ט באב was on חורבן בהמ"ק יז בתמוז would have been positive. Also מרגלים if the report of the .were given, rather than broken לוחות would have been the day that the who was כלב בן יפונה into מתגלגל The Ari Tzal says that Eliezer was are the בכל where ,הויה ברך אברהם בכל It says . חברון given his portion in just as we ,ברוך became a ,חם Eliezer, who descends from .כלב letters or ,שער הנון into בול from מרחשון could transform the month of ראית עקרב orיראת עקרב are the letters קרית ארבע The words .חודש השמיני however ,חשון We have a fear entering into . עקרב the fear or seeing the where the ,קרית ארבע היא חברון this is really our purpose. It says .גן עדן and we could rise to ,חבור נ becomes יראת עקרב

Our .נשמה and Avraham is the ,גוף The Zohar says that Sara is the that ארץ הקדוש It says of .גוף purpose here is to elevate the the ,ארציות which is explained in Chassidis that the ,א"י גבוע מכל הארצות yid, is higher than any of the nations. We פשוט mundane activities of a do not eat, or conduct any business the same way that the goyim do. .תחיית המתים to זוכה Because a yid elevates his body, he will be is to חולין hinting that the purpose of ,סדר קודשים Mesechta Chulin is in ,ארציות We are not supposed to separate from the .קודשים elevate it to ,אחרי בלתי היתה לי עדנה Sara says וירא יח:יב but to elevate it. In Parshas which according to what we’re saying here could be interpreted as the .נצחיות – עדנה is to elevate it into בול –בלתי purpose of this world of ,We are Hashem’s first born .תחיית המתים Mesechta Chulin ends with that is 1) this world- it is not hard to see that ,כפל to זוכה and so we are yidden that follow Hashem’s will are the really happy ones in this Whoever was buried in .תחיית המתים -world and 2) the next world said בעל הטורים The .תחיית המתים to זוכה will definitely be ,מערת המכפלה will be the first to rise in the time ,א"י that the yidden that are buried in will ארציות Those who were involved in elevating the .תחיית המתים of will be in the תחיית המתים first. The first תחיית המתים to זוכה be were buried there. The אבות since the bodies of the מערת המכפלה According to .מיתה means the entrance to where there is no פתח גן עדן משיח will take place before תחיית המתים the Gemorra, the first stage of חיי שרה is actually מיתת שרה .will be with them משה ואהרון comes, and Also we .אפילו מתים קרואים חיים - comes back צדיק since the body of a This is the idea of why Avraham .רבקה could say she kept living in 6

בנים הויה אלה-יכם לא תתגדדו ולא -doesn’t cry too much. It says meaning that we don’t rip hair out of our heads, or -תעשו קרחה למת mutilate our bodies after someone close dies, like the goyim do. To says in רמב"ן them it’s all over, however to us, it’s all beginning. The we will see our relatives. Avraham taught the lesson of not ,עולם הבא .כל ישראל יש להם חלק… תחיית המתים since ,אבילות overdoing ones

Avraham is telling Eliezer that he is the one who כד:ג In pasuk .אלה-י הארץ but also אלה-י השמים publicized that Hashem is not only The goyim don’t understand the concept of elevating the gashmius. By To the .עולה only an ,קרבן שלמים a goy, there is no such thing as a was really based חטא המרגלים The .אלה-י השמים goyim, Hashem is only didn’t want to get involved with the physical מרגלים on the fact that the ארץ אוכלת They said .א"י travails entailed in entering and living in didn’t מרגלים consumes the inhabitants. The ארציות that the ,יושביה is the first city where חברון .only with Tishrei ,מרחשון want to deal with מלכות בית דוד this elevation of the gashmios took place, and so the ,took place מלכות בית דוד began there. This was also where the split of Yerovam .טו חשון pushed Sukkos off a month to ירבעם בן נבט where comes from Efraim, who didn’t deal with the outside world, and so he תשרי and therefore he extended ,מרחשון of מעלה didn’t recognize the is to bring Hashem into the מלכות בית דוד The purpose of .מרחשון into inferring ,ארץ זבת חלב ודבש The pasuk .טוב הארץ מאד מאד said כלב .world The combination of .דבש could lead to ארציות that involving oneself in .ודבש היום הזה יה-וה is מרחשון Hashem’s name for that the ,תקומה היתה לו Rashi says ,ויקם שדה עפרון it says כג:יז In pasuk to ארור had an elevation. Also Eliezer was elevated from שדה עפרון and אליהו and there is an opinion that Eliezer never died like ,ברוך ,קיחה קיחה משדה עפרון of ג"ז from the קדושים We learn all .סרח בת אשר .the cave of couples ,מערת המכפלה are rooted in זיווגים since all in being such a זכות is forever. Eliezer had tremendous זווג אמיתי A of Yitzhak and Rivka, and merited to be שידוך in making the שליח נאמן Kalev .מלכות בית דוד of שורש who was the ,כלב בן יפנה into מגלגל would come from her. As מלכות who was rewarded that ,מרים married because ,מלכות Kalev merited this .כהונה ולוי מיוחבד ומלכות ממרים it says of elevating the עבודה and taught the ,מרגלים he protested against the The .בניהו בן יהוידע into מתגלגל says that he was also חידא The .ארציות At the end of .יהוידע=in our Parsha- 105 פסוקים given for the 105 סימן The work of .והמלך דוד of הפטרה we usually read the מרחשון 7

.מרחשון of עבודה and its elevation, is the מלכות בית דוד and the חיי שרה connecting the end of בעל הטורים We spoke of the כלל ישראל and יצחק beginning of Parshas Toldos, saying that the rise of will take place with the fall of Yishmael - The reward .הנה אנכי שולח לכם את אליהו הנביא=1096=ואלה תולדות יצחק will lead to the מרחשון in גשמיות of elevating the עבודה of the says בני יששכר which the ,עקרב is the חשון of מזל The .חנוכת בית השלישי is חיי שרה of הפטרה The last words of the .עיקר בית stands for .יחי אדני המלך דוד לעלם - יחי אדני המלך דוד לעלם=372=בן ישי=372=עקרב who are obviously not involved in elevating the מלאכים Unlike the physical, we are called Hashem’s children- not the goyim. In most ,the month of Chanuka ,שבת מברכים כסלו is חיי שרה years, Parshas אור הגנוז- which the Rokeach says is when we merit a revelation of the אור הגנוז The Zohar says that the .פתח הגן עדן=670=וצונו להדליק נר חנכה נכסף -which is the 400 desired ,ארבע מאות שקל כסף is hinted in the .in this world עולם הבא who taste צדיקים worlds that will be given to ,in this world עולם הבא The Gemorra says that three people tasted ,refers to the future world כל Avraham, Itzhak, and Yaakov. The word ,והויה ברך את אברהם בכל it says אברהם By… כל ישראל יש להם as it says שנתברכו as we say in bentching ,כל and by Yaakov מכל by Yitzhak The number of hours in eight days .אבותינו אברהם יצחק ויעקב בכל מכל כל .בכל מכל כל =of Chanuka is 8 x 24=192- - - 192

the great ,עקסא רבסא the ,עקרב of the חודש MarCheshvan is the leads us into עקרב suffering that we experience at the end of time. The which also refers to Yishmael, who was the ,קשת the month of ,בחרבי ובקשתי ,refers to tefilla קשת the ,צד הקדושה In the .רובה קשת which has to be aimed like a bow and arrow, in order to hit the target. , תקון הברית Also .שמע קול תפילתינו are the acronym of קשת The word ,בטחון along with his mida of ,קשת the mida of Yosef, is referred to as ,ברית קודש of tefilla and עבודה Through the .ותישב באיתן קשתו as it says we will merit to overpower בטחון and ,אמונה which is synonymous to enter the upper תפילות is the place where all מערת המכפלה The .ישמעאל .גלות ישמעאל=890=מערת המכפלה – worlds

being that of a ,ישמעאל Hagar sat under a tree, the distance from Eliezer, who was a son of Nimrod .הרחק בתחבי קשת shooting arrow through ,ברוך and was elevated to צד עבדות from Kush, overcame his is שמירת הברית The prerequisite of .תקון הברית and his נאמנות his who spoke a lot, but עפרן=400=רע עין of מדה the opposite ,שמירת הלשון 8

,are repeated twice חיי שרה did nothing. In the first pasuk, the words Sara paved ,ישמעאל By sending away .כלן שוין לטובה and Rashi says is written twice in the first חיי שרה The words .בהמ"ק way for the third of אשת חיל She was the .בית השלישי=x 2=1066 חיי שרה =pasuk- 533 as she had the ability to separate the bad from ,טוב ולא רע whom it says the good in everything. She knew clearly to get Yishmael out of the house. On the other hand Chava, due to her talking too much, brought into the world, which resulted in good and bad being חטא עץ הדעת the for Chava, and some say she was her תקון mixed up. Sara was the which ,והרי היא שרה אמו as Rashi says ,שרה of נשמה Rivka was the .גלגול .from Yaakov עשו is equated with Rivka also separating the wicked .כלל ישראל Sara and Rivka purified, and will purify

we light ,בית שמאי According to .טהרה Chanuka is a taste of this the seventy bulls that were כנגד ,Chanuka candles in decreasing mode sacrificed on Sukkos, in decreasing numbers. The first day was thirteen bulls, then twelve, until on the last day of Sukkos seven bulls were sacrificed. The seventy bulls represent the seventy nations which are spearheaded by Esav and Yishmael. The Gra says that by the first, ,ישמעאל referring to שעיר עזים second, and fourth day of Sukkos it says ,שעיר whereas on the third, fifth, sixth and seventh, it says just Each has thirty five bulls, and so the seventy bulls .עשו referring to The .ישמעאל and עשו representing the seventy nations are headed by and Islam, try in every generation to נצרות two most powerful religions Chanuka .צרות infiltrate Yiddishkeit, and have given the yidden great which is pure, doesn’t mix, and is not שמן זית of י"ט is the contaminated by outside influences. The pasuk which shows that Esav Chanuka .כי ביצחק יקרא לך זרע is כלל ישראל and Yishmael are not part of -כלל ישראל demonstrates the purity of we get a taste of חנוכה On .הדלקת נר חנוכה=878=כי ביצחק יקרא לך זרע when all impurities will ,רוח הטומאה אעביר מו הארץ when אורו של משיח be removed. The life and legacy of Sara was the removal of these .מערת המכפלה impurities. Yishmael has no connection to the

which speaks of the wisdom of the כי כפלים לתושיה it saysאיוב יא:ו In .twice לוחות Torah. The commentators explain that we received the Others interpret this as the Torah of this world and the Torah of the ,The yidden are the first born of Hashem .סתרי תורה world to come, the מערת המכפלה - -who receive a double portion In the future we will merit .מקבץ נדחי עמו ישראל=961=כי כפלים לתושיה 9

.כפל the revelation of

The Gemorra sometimes learns Halachas from single letters in the Torah. Not one letter is superfluous. How is it that the entire story of Eliezer finding the mate of Itzhak, is written twice? Eliezer told Lavan and Besuel, that he would not eat until he told his story- They .ביום ההוא יתקע בשופר גדול=1286=ויאמר לא אכל עד אם דברתי דברי This repeated .שידוך put poison in his food attempting to prevent the story is connected to the Torah of the future, where it says a new revelation. This Torah will be revealed– תורה חדשה מאיתי יצא is גלות will come to an end. The fifth גלות the fifth ,גלות ישמעאל when of Eliyahu, and the fifth expression of כוס connected to the fifth is the fifth Parsha in חיי שרה Parshas .משיח בו דוד=424=והבאתי -Geula .על פני כל אחיו נפל Chumash, where we see the fall of the fifth Galus ,כד:נ pasuk ,מהויה יצא הדבר of the future, ends with תורה the ,כפל The ,black ,כושי Lavan and Besuel. Eliezer was a ,רשעים words said by two but he was pure white inside, whereas Lavan was an albino, white all .גאולה represents כפולה is that כלל over, but he was black inside. The represents the different ,כפולה which is ,מנצפך The Midrash says that ,יצחק of גאולה the ם of Avraham, the גאולה was the ך- לך לך The .גלויות and the ,…גאולת מצרים –פרעה, פסח פדיון the פ the ,יעקב of גאולה the נ the from our Galus, which is connected to the גאולה represents the final ץ double story of Eliezer.

.פה נקי –סייג לחכמה שתיקה- requires a clean mouth תורה שבעל פה ,.T.B.P from עבר of ב"מ We learn that Yaakov learned fourteen years in the the calculation of the years of Yishmael (second to last pasuk-Rashi). ,the best advice ,ישמעאל This hints to us that when there is trouble with beside what we said before, to not answer back, is to go learn Torah- The yidden have in והוא יהיה פרא אדם ידו בכל ויד כל בו=524=תלמוד בבלי .פה –הקול קול יעקב .them the power of speech, that is real speech- T.B.P both go hand in hand ברית המעור and ברית הלשון We already said that The Rokeach says.מילה=85=פה and are interdependent on each other - whose source in Chumash is ,אור הגנוז of the הארה is a חנוכה that Chanuka seperates the yidden from the .וירא אלה-ים את האור כי טוב ויבדל other nations, as olive oil is separate from other liquids when mixed This number also is את האור כי טוב ויבדל=712=הלשון המעור together is כסלו of מזל The .חנוכה) =or 8 x 89 (712 חנוכה equal to eight times .שקת the same letters as ,קשת the 10 in the month of ,קרית ארבע in נפטר it says that Sara was מדרש רבה In the says מדרש This .מרחשון which also means that she was born in ,מרחשון that Haman when checking each month for “suitability” to wipe out he said no, since Sara passed חשון when he came to ,ח"ו the yidden away in this month. What about Adar, the month that he did choose, Haman saw that with the passing of ?פטירת משה being the month of The pasuk says .עקרב the ,ישמעאל Sara, there was an eradication of are the same letters as בקרית ארבע where ,ותמת שרה בקרית ארבע which was ,עקרב of the מזל has the מרחשון The month of .בריאת עקרב and ישמעאל of קליפה removed with Sara’s death. Sara rids us with the in the first חיי שרה The double .עיקר בית and brings us to the ,עקרב the which will be built in the merit of ,בית השלישי pasuk we said equals to The combination of .ישמעאל from כלל ישראל separating Yitzhak שרה האר are derived from the acronym of כסלו Hashem’s name for ויהיו says that the last letters of חידא The .ץ הכנענ וירא יושב -ויהה ו and the first letters, if we take out the ,ויהה are חיי שרה מאה ,משיח -יהיו חיי שרה מאה. והיתה להויה המלוכה=588=בירושלם spell החיבור .will be restored מלכות בית דוד when ,חשון which will take place in .משיח Sara is preparing us for - בירושלים=598=האהלה שרה אמו

As Islam spreads throughout the world, we see an increase of the when ,על פני כל אחיו נפל which is a sign that ,אשור and מצרים of טומאה In the שם אצמיח קרן לדויד=893=אשור ומצרים -they will be humbled it ,משיח speaking of .. והיה ביום ההוא יתקע בשופר גדול famous pasuk The pasuk ends with .אשור and מצרים mentions these two nations of אשור of טומאה The .בהר הקדוש בירושלים -that we will all bow to Hashem Mitzraim .אמונה - ירושלים is the complete opposite of city of מצרים and represents the place steeped in the physical pleasures, taivos in the To .כפירה of atheism and טומאה is a more intellectual אשור world, and ,מצרים and אשור of טומאה we must rid ourselves of the ,י"ם come to .respectively דור המבול and the דור הפלגה which are similar to the These two nations come together at the end of time under the guise of .belongs to י"ם who “will decide” who גוג ומגוג and ,ישמעאל

The .חיי שרה There are many questions given in the very last pasuk of on בני ישמעאל of the , וישכנו-beginning of the pasuk talks in the plural , נפל-The pasuk ends in the singular .אשור coming to מצרים the face of ישמעאל Even though .ישמעאל because now the pasuk is talking of just he has no future, no ,ויגבע as Rashi says from the word תשובה died with עליות נשמה in the past tense. There is no נפל This is why it says .המשך 11

that they מקומות הקדושים and he has no connection to the ,ישמעאל for and ,צדיק died a ישמעאל occupy now. One may ask, why mention that the names of all of his children in the Parsha of Sara? This is her legacy? The answer is yes. Because of Sara’s insight when she said Yishmael is mostly out of the picture, in the ,גרש האמה הזאת ואת בנה says that we’ll never see a חידא sense. This is her legacy. The נצחיות because there are גרים Muslim become a Jew. From Esav, there are and Esav’s head was buried in the ,עשו in קדושה still sparks of Sara’s legacy comes to fruition with her being the .מערת המכפלה which ,גן עדן the holy entrance to ,מערת המכפלה first yid buried in the .ישמעאל to שייכות has no he used the words ,שידוך When Eliezer davened for Yitzhak’s .and before he finished speaking, he was answered ,הקרה נא לפני היום that ,וישא עיניו וירא- ויצא יצחק לשוח בשדה it says כד:סג in pasuk ,יצחק By he was answered before he even began to daven. This is even greater Hashem .טרם יקראו ואני אענה than the tefilla of Eliezer, as it says even before they pray for what they need. The צדיקים answers the is very great, and we must pour our hearts out to the תפילה power of .גלות ישמעאל Almighty to take us out quickly from this most difficult