Guiding Questions: Genesis 23

This is part of the Tanakh Yomi Project.

  1. If Abraham returned to Beer Sheva and Sarah died in Hevron – is a migration story to be assumed? (Genesis 23:2 JPS translates “va’yavo” as “proceeded” but literally it is “and Abraham came”. Is this literary style or did he actually come from Beer Sheva?)
  2. How is the tradition of burial in a Jewish owned burial site derived from Genesis 23:4 – 16?

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Perek Yomi materials originally produced by the USCJ and Dr. Morton K. Siegel.
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