Parshas Chayei Sara

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Parshas Chayei Sara (5776)
by Mordechai Dolinsky

We find (24:67) that there was a unique connection and bond between Yitzchok and his mother, Sara. Without question there was a special reason for this. We must know that Sara, being an עקרה, meant that giving birth was a complete physical impossibility. How did the awesome phenomenon of having Yitzchok come about? Rashi 15:5 explains that when Hashem called Avraham Avinu outside ויוצא אותו החוצה ואמר הבט נא השמימה וכו’and Rashi explains: הוציאיו מחללו של עולם והגביהו למעלה מן הכוכבים. When Hashem called Avraham Avinu outside under the Heavens and declared to him that he was no longer under the stars but above, the stars represented the mazalos, meaning the natural order of the Creation. These are the tools that are the realization of the manifestation of the world. The implication of this is so far reaching and infinite. Yitzchok Avinu was born from Sara, from the special Divine blessing. Avraham and his progenity resemble conventional human beings but we are not. Yitzchok felt a special connection with his mother, Sara Imeinu, who was the shaliacha of the Divine means of how Yitzchok made his presence into this world.

This is the secret and basis of the glorious and miraculous history and present existence of Klal Yisroel.