Hayé Sarah : Le miracle des bougies de Chabbat qui traverse les générations 🕯️ | Joy Galam

The Parashat Chayei Sarah means the life of Sarah. And paradoxically, what does this Parashat tell us about? It tells us about the death of Sarah. It is very surprising.

We are told that when Abraham buried his wife, he delivered a funeral oration, and it is written that he came to mourn her, in Hebrew "lifkotah." And it is very interesting to see that in the parchment, in the Torah scroll, for "lifkotah," the letter kaf is written in small print. And from this, our sages tell us, "Yes, he mourned his wife, but not excessively ." Really? The woman with whom he went through everything, with whom he lived for all those years, he does not mourn her excessively? You will understand why Abraham, at the moment he mourns her, already has consolation.

Why? Well, when you remove the kaf from "lifkotah," what do you find? You find the words "le-betah," for her daughter. When Abraham buries Sarah , he has one consolation: he knows that his descendants will produce daughters, granddaughters, and great-granddaughters like us, who will perpetuate Sarah's message.

Look at something wonderful. You know that there was a miracle in Sarah's house when she lit her Shabbat candles. Saturday night, they were not extinguished. Not Monday, nor Tuesday.

It was only the following Friday, a week later, that the flame went out. Meaning , the candle remained lit from one Shabbat to the next. Well, there is an even greater miracle than that. It is that we, in the image of Sarah, light the Shabbat candles every Friday night.

So, there is a miracle greater than the flame that lasts from Shabbat to Shabbat. It is that the flame has been maintained from generation to generation. And that is what brings consolation to Abraham. And in reality, if he cries less at that moment, it is thanks to us, because Abraham is already proud of us.

So, from now on, when we light the Shabbat candles, we will think that we are perpetuating Sarah's message.