Dvar Torah Parshat Chayei Sarah
In this week’s Parsha, Chayei Sarah, Avraham purchases Ma’arat Hamachpela as a burial place for his wife Sarah. He buys it from Efron Hachiti. Why does Avraham want
Ma’arat Hamachpela specifically? And why does the Torah also mentions that Ma’arat Hamachpela was in Chevron?
The answer lies in the fact that Chevron, the special place where Ma'arat Hamachpela was located, has another name, Kiryat Arbah. Arbah means four. It's called this because there were four couples who were buried in Ma’arat Hamachpela: Adam and Chava, Avraham and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka and Yaakov and Leah. Avraham knew this and he wanted to make sure his family would be buried in Ma’arat Hamachpela. That’s why this week so many people go to visit Chevron and daven at Ma’arat Hamachpela.
Shabbat Shalom,
Yoni Rosenberg
Grade 5
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