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Reuven Chaim Klein

Nov 17, 2025, 11:47 PM

Exploring Love – ahavah, r’chim, chibah, and agav (Part 2 of 2)

In Part I of this essay, we looked the Hebrew word ahavah and its various forms, offering various etymological theories as to the core root of that word and its underlying conceptual idea. In Part II of this essay,...

Nov 16, 2025, 5:44 PM

Chayai Sarah: Who is Strong?

Abraham was known for his kindness; Isaac was known for his strength. One can readily see why Abraham was known for his kindness, but attributing “strength “to Isaac is mystifying. The definition of strength as explained in the Ethics...

Nov 16, 2025, 2:05 PM

Rivka, the First Woman Animal Chaplain in History

(Weekly Torah Portion: Chayei Sarah) This week’s Torah portion, Chayei Sarah, speaks not only about the life and passing of our matriarch Sarah, but about the continuation of her spiritual essence through Rivka — the young woman whose simple act...

Reuven Chaim Klein

Nov 16, 2025, 5:49 AM

Exploring Love – ahavah, r’chim, chibah, and agav (Part 1 of 2)

The verb for “loving” appears in the Bible for the first time when Hashem commands Abraham to offer up his son “that he loves” (Gen. 22:2) — Isaac. Afterwards, Isaac himself becomes the subject of ahavah, as the Bible reports...

Andy Blumenthal

Nov 16, 2025, 5:47 AM

The Powerful Legacy of Jewish Women

The Israeli women who suffered on October 7 endured unspeakable terror at the hands of terrorists—they were degraded, raped, murdered, mutilated, and then, tragically, disbelieved by many. Unlike Sarah, our biblical foremother whose son Isaac was spared at the...

William Hamilton

Nov 14, 2025, 8:03 PM

Once upon a time, long ago, there was a woman who knew herself well. Even though her brother was deceptive and her mother was hesitant, when her moment of truth arrived, she knew how to be decisive. To take...

Nov 14, 2025, 6:01 PM

Life After the End

Parashah Chayei Sarah – Life After the End Connection with the previous parashah – Vayera Vayera ends with the Akedah: Avraham and Yitzchak return from Mount Moriah. But Sarah is not in the scene. She does not go up, she does not...

Itzchak Evan-Shayish

Nov 14, 2025, 5:13 PM

Rav Kook on Parshat Chayei Sarah: Becoming Powerful Heroes of Kindness

RAV KOOK ON PARSHAT CHAYEI SARAH: BECOMING POWERFUL HEROES OF KINDNESS “וְאַבְרָהָ֣ם זָקֵ֔ן בָּ֖א בַּיָּמִ֑ים וַֽה’ בֵּרַ֥ךְ אֶת־אַבְרָהָ֖ם בַּכֹּֽל- Avraham was now old, advanced in years, and YHVH blessed Avraham with everything.” (Breishit 24:1) Chayei Sarah begins with the passing of Sarah Imenu and documents the...

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Nov 14, 2025, 1:42 PM

Chaye Sarah – Is Death Really the End?

While discussing the topic of death, a very good friend of mine, who is over 80 years old, said to me: “I hope that I will slip out of life in a second without me being aware of it....

Nov 13, 2025, 9:02 PM

Hopes and Fears (Chayei Sarah, Covenant & Conversation)

The sedra of Chayei Sarah focuses on two episodes, both narrated at length and in intricate detail. Abraham buys a field with a cave as a burial place for Sarah, and he instructs his servant to find a wife...

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