ב"ה Cheshvan 26, 5781 - Friday, November 13, 2020 Candle Lighting: 4:07 pm Shabbat Ends: 5:12 pm EXPRESS חיי שרה TORAH PORTION CHAYEI SARAH ⬢ BLESSING OF THE NEW MONTH OF KISLEV, ROSH CHODESH TUESDAY, NOV 17 GOODNESS. UNMASKED. 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Shacharis…….…....7:00 am Treitel, Grossbaum & Shemtov families MINCHA Tues-Thurs..…...........4:15 pm on the Bar Mitzvah of Mendel Treitel Join a live class on zoom. MAARIV Tues-Thurs...…....…..4:50 pm Rabbi Itchy & Zeldie Treitel and family VISIT THEMTC.COM/ZOOM In cherished memory of on the Bat Mitzvah of Chana Treitel R’ Yeshaya Aryeh ben Menashe Treitel obm 2 MOSAIC EXPRESS ALIYAH SUMMARY drink as well," would be the proper choice for Isaac. Immediately a young lady General Overview: In this week's Torah approached and in response to the servant's reading, Chayei Sarah, Sarah dies and request for a drink, she offered to give his THIS WEEK’S CLASS Abraham purchases the Cave of Machpela as camels to drink too. Upon questioning her, a burial plot for his wife. Abraham's servant he discovered that she was Abraham's great- RISING REAL-ESTATE: niece, Rebecca. travels to Aram to find a wife for Isaac. Isaac ABRAHAM’S marries Rebecca. Abraham dies. ACQUISITION OF THE Fourth Aliyah: Rebecca ran to tell her CAVE OF MACHPELAH First Aliyah: Sarah died at the age of 127, family about the man at the well, and her and her grieving husband Abraham identified brother, Laban, went out, greeted the A closer reading of a few unusual words in a plot in the city of Hebron that he wished to servant, and invited him to spend the night. Rashi's commentary resolves puzzling procure for use as a family burial ground. This The servant told Rebecca's family the questions in the narrative of Abraham's plot, a cave situated in the Machpela field, purpose of his mission to the city, and purchase of the Cave of Machpelah as a belonged to Ephron the Hittite, so Abraham recounted the heavenly sign that designated burial place for his wife Sarah. This novel approached the Hittite tribe and asked for Rebecca as his master's son's wife. insight affords a powerful message for our times permission to purchase the parcel of land. Rebecca's family agreed that the match was Originally Ephron wished to give the plot to divinely ordained, and consented to the View this class at themtc.com/tapestry Abraham as a gift, but after Abraham insisted proposed match. on paying full price the acquisition was concluded with Abraham paying 400 premium Fifth Aliyah: Rebecca's family silver coins. celebrates the engagement together with Abraham's servant. Next morning, the Second Aliyah: Having acquired the servant insisted on immediately returning to PARENTING POST land, Abraham buried Sarah in the Cave of his master with the maiden in hand, and Machpela. At this point, Abraham summoned after Rebecca agreed, the two set out for his servant and charged him with the mission Canaan. Isaac married Rebecca, loved her, By Sarah Chana Radcliffe of finding a suitable wife for his son Isaac. and finally found consolation for the loss of Abraham had his servant swear that he his mother. You can't do the same parenting in the would not take a wife for Isaac from the local second decade that you did in the first... Canaanite women. Instead, he asked him to Sixth Aliyah: Abraham remarried and Older kids as well as teens need more space to travel to Aram, his native land, and find a fathered several more children. Before his do things their own way. Parents, on the other wife for Isaac there. death, however, Abraham gave gifts to his hand, want to help their kids do things the best other children and sent them all away, and way, the safest way, the rightest way - THEIR Third Aliyah: The servant set out for his bequeathed all the rest of his possessions to way. They often suffer tremendous anxiety in master's homeland and evening time found Isaac. Abraham died at the age of 175, and letting go of the reigns. If you feel a strong need him beside the city well. He prayed for was buried by Isaac and Ishmael in the cave success in his mission, and asked for a of Machpela beside his wife, Sarah. to give your older child lots of instructions, heavenly sign to confirm his choice of a girl remember this: he learned everything you had to for Isaac. He would ask a maiden for a drink Seventh Aliyah: Ishmael's progeny are offer in his first decade. You did a great job. of water, and the one who would answer: detailed in this section. Ishmael passed Now he needs to make some mistakes, find his "Certainly, and I'll also give your camels to away at the age of 137. ⬢ own solutions and become his own person. If you continue to treat him the same way you did when he was 5 (directing his every move), he SHARE THE LIGHT will either vehemently resist you (harming your relationship) or he will comply (and remain a Be Chanukah's ambassador and give a cool, MTC branded, Chanukah child forever). Your child needs your trust now Travel Kit to a friend, co-worker or family member who otherwise far more than he needs your minute-by-minute would not have the opportunity to fulfill this beautiful mitzvah. Kits include a Menorah, candles, dreidels, chocolate-gelt and the Mosaic supervision.⬢ Holiday Guide. Contact [email protected] to order your Kits. MOSAIC EXPRESS 3 RABBI LORD JONATHAN SACKS, Z”L By Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, Lubavitch.com The global Chabad-Lubavitch movement mourns sweeping scholarship, moral wisdom, and elo- the passing, Shabbat morning, of the former quent oratorical skills, had a profound influence chief rabbi of Great Britain, Lord Jonathan on the larger Jewish community, and well be- (Yaakov Tzvi) Sacks. He was 72. His passing is yond it. a tragic loss that will be felt around the world. A student of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Rabbi Sacks was a rare luminary who, with his Sacks spoke often of how the Rebbe shaped his attitude to leadership and moral responsibility. Esteemed within the highest echelons of aca- demic, social, political and religious circles, Rabbi Sacks led with the courageous, moral voice of Torah Judaism, which will be greatly missed. Yehi Zichro Baruch. ⬢ *Advanced MAKING G-D PERSONAL SUNDAY MORNING 8:30 - 9:15 in MTC and on Zoom at By Baila Olidort, Lubavitch.com themtc.com/zoom, Password 770 I had an hour and a half interview with Rabbi Jonathan Sacks in 2014. As he responded to my questions, the editor in me marveled. His prose was poetry; there would be nothing to edit. There wasn’t. I asked him how a rabbi can make God personal to people. Here’s what he said: “My father had to leave school at fourteen and sell shmattes on Commercial Road, our equivalent of the Lower East Side in New York. They never had an education, but we saw from our parents how they loved Yiddishkeit; it made them walk taller. “I don’t know if my father could even understand all the davening, but he knew who he was. And I had the biggest privilege in my life seeing him walk on crutches up the steps of the S. John’s Wood Shul to open the Ark at my induction as chief rabbi.