Chaje Sara

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Chaje Sara ( Biblical Hebrew חַיֵּי שָׂרָה 'Life of Sara ' ) refers to a reading section ( Parascha or Sidra) of the Torah and includes the text Genesis / Bereschit 23.1–25.18 (23.1–20 BHS , 24 BHS , 25.1–18 BHS ).

It is the cider of the 4th Shabbat in the month of Marcheschwan .

Essential content

  • After Sara's death at the age of 127, Abraham bought the Machpela double cave near Hebron as a hereditary burial place from the Hittite prince Efron for 400 silver pieces . That is why the further name Hebron is written: Kirjat Arba , "City of Four", because of the four couples buried there: Adam and Eve , Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah , Jacob and Leah .
  • Abraham instructs his servant to fetch a wife for Isaac from his home and family.
  • The servant asks God for a sign that he is making the right choice.
  • Rebekah, the daughter of Betuel, fulfills this sign.
  • Rebekka's brother Laban and Betuel give their consent that they want to give Rebekah to the servant as a woman destined for Isaac, if Rebekah also agrees.
  • Rebekah moves into Sara's tent as Isaac's wife.
  • Abraham has six sons from a marriage to Ketura .
  • Abraham dies at the age of 175 and is buried by Isaac and Ishmael in the Machpelah cave.
  • Directory of the descendants of Ishmael, who died at the age of 137.

Haftara

The associated Haftara is 1 Kings 1: 1–31  BHS .

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Individual evidence

  1. Hanna Liss: Tanach - Textbook of the Jewish Bible . 3. Edition. Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8253-5904-1 , p. 40 (414 pp.).