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TORAT MIZRACHI MIZRACHI SCHOLARS-IN-RESIDENCE

Sivan Rahav Meir and Yedidya Meir

Three

Contemporary

Lessons

FROM
Chayei Sarah

hayei Sarah is actually not desire for friendship and cooperation me on oath, saying, ‘I will assign this
about Sarah, but about Rivka. with the peoples of the region, there land to your offspring’ – He will send
CThe message is clear: there is no are red lines, and this is what he says His angel before you, and you will get a
“Chayei Sarah” without the continuity, to Eliezer when he sends him on his wife for my son from there. And if the
without the “Chayei Rivka.” Avraham mission to find a wife for Yitzchak: woman does not consent to follow you,
and Sarah will be a passing episode if you shall then be clear of this oath to
there is no one to continue what they “‘And I will make you swear by the me; but do not take my son back there.’”
began. L-rd, the G-d of heaven and the G-d
of the earth, that you will not take a On this point, there are no compro-
Here are three special lessons from our wife for my son from the daughters of mises. And nothing has changed since
first Abba and Ima that we can continue the Canaanites among whom I dwell, Avraham’s times. If anything, the sit-
to apply today but will go to the land of my birth and uation is much worse. In my opinion,
get a wife for my son Yitzchak.’ And we are dealing too much with other
Facing Up to Assimilation the servant said to him, ‘What if the issues and neglecting this issue, which
woman does not consent to follow
This may not be politically correct, but me to this land, shall I then take your should be the issue on the Jewish peo-
this is how the story of the post-Avra- son back to the land from which you ple’s agenda. In the United States, the
ham and Sarah generation begins. First came?’ Avraham answered him, “On sad reality for some time has been more
and foremost, Avraham demands that no account must you take my son back than 60% intermarriage. We have seen
his children do not marry the children there! The L-rd, the G-d of heaven, who this up close, and it is our responsibil-
of another people. He is establishing took me from my father’s house and ity to continue Avraham Avinu’s sacred
something new here, and despite his from my native land, who promised mission.

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