Ilustration Credit: Elad Lifshitz, Dov Abramson Studio
In This Week’s Parashah: מָה בַּפָּרָשָׁה
Full Parashah Reading: Bereishit 23:1-25:18
- Sarah is 127 years old when she dies. Avraham buys a burial place for her.
- Avraham sends his servant on a mission to find a wife for Yitzhak from Avraham’s birthplace.
- Avraham’s servant asks God for a sign that he is choosing the right wife for Yitzhak. He says that if a woman offers to give water to him and to his camels, then he will know that she is the one.
- Rivkah arrives at the well. She quickly brings water to him and also to his camels, fulfilling the sign.
- Rivkah invites Avraham’s servant to her home. He meets her father, Betuel, and her brother, Lavan.
- Avraham’s servant tells his whole story to Rivkah’s family.
- Everyone asks Rivkah if she wants to go and marry Yitzhak, and she says yes!
- Rivkah’s family gives her a blessing, she returns home with Avraham’s servant, and she marries Yitzhak.
- Avraham is 175 years old when he dies.
- Together, Yitzhak and Yishmael bury Avraham next to Sarah.
- Yishmael dies and is buried near מִצְרַיִם (Mitzrayim, Egypt).
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