Israel. A Heartbreak, A Mystery, and a Romance
from our Torah Scroll: "and he cried for her" Today’s Parasha portion, is “Chayei Sarah”, “The Life of Sarah”. It is three things A heartbreak A Mystery and a Romance A Torah scroll takes a year to pen by hand. It has exactly 304,805 letters. And when the scribe gets to this story about Sarah’s death, he has to intentionally embed a mystery in the typography. There is no explanation for it but there are differing opinions as to why. It says here that Sarah lived for 127 years. Abraham and she had a brilliant marriage, with failings of course, we know all about them. The couple completely changed the direction of their lives, set a course for the unknown and in the end, had no greater desire than to see what God entrusted them with come to pass. Many of you have had moments like that, where you hear from God and you changed everything. It says: אברהם לספד לשרה ולב כ תה “Abraham mourned for Sarah AND HE WE P T FOR HER”. And therei...