יום שלישי, כ״ט תמוז תשפ״וTuesday, July 14, 2026
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Rabbi Shlomo Riskin is the author of the acclaimed “Torah Lights” series (Maggid Books), from which this essay is excerpted (Devarim edition). The chief rabbi of Efrat and chancellor of Ohr Torah Stone Colleges and Graduate Programs in Israel, Rabbi Riskin was the founding rabbi of Manhattan’s Lincoln Square Synagogue.
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Does it not seem ironic that just on the day all of Israel is joyously celebrating another year of having concluded the public reading of the entire Pentateuch, we must mournfully and even tearfully commemorate the death of the individual who imparted to us God’s Torah in the first place?
"And the servant said to him…" (Genesis 24:5). The biblical portion of Chayei Sarah comprises two chapters in the Book of Genesis. The first (chapter 23) deals with the death and burial of Sarah and the second (chapter 24) deals with the selection of a suitable wife for Isaac.
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