25 Cheshvan 5780
November 23, 2019

Parashat Chayei Sarah
“Life of Sarah”

Here are the Torah, Haftarah and suggested Brit Chadasha (New Testament) readings for this week. Listen to the current Portion readings from the Tree of Life Version here.

• Genesis 23:1-25:18
• 1 Kings 1:1-31
• Matthew 1:1-17

The seven aliyot readings from the Torah begin at these verses:

1. Genesis 23:1
2. Genesis 23:17
3. Genesis 24:10
4. Genesis 24:27
5. Genesis 24:53
6. Genesis 25:1
7. Genesis 25:12

Maftir: Genesis 25:16

In Chayei Sarah

The Key People include Sarah, Avraham (Abraham), Hittites, Efron ben-Tsochar (Ephron son of Zohar), Avraham’s servant, Rivkah (Rebecca), Lavan (Laban), Yitzchak (Isaac), K’turah (Keturah), more children, and Yishma’el (Ishmael).

The Scenes include Kiryat Arba (Chevron/Hebron), cave of Machpelah near mamre, Efron’s field, Aram Naharayim-Nachor’s City, B’er Lahai Roi in the Negev, and the region from Havilah to Shur.

The Main Events include Sarah’s death, first property purchase in Yisra’el (a burial cave for Sarah), a non-Canaanite bride for Yitzchak, marriage and comfort for Yitzchak, more children for Avraham through Keturah, Avraham’s death and burial next to Sarah, Yishma’el’s descendants, and Yishma’el’s death.

Adonai, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and from my native land and who spoke to me and made a pledge to me saying, ‘To your seed I will give this land’—He will send His angel before you and you will take a wife for my son from there.
(Genesis 24:7 TLV)

The Haftarah

Then the king swore an oath: “As Adonai lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all distress, as surely as I swore to you by Adonai, the God of Israel, saying that your son Solomon will be king after me and will sit on my throne in my place. Thus I will surely fulfill it this day!”
(1 Kings 1:29-30 TLV)

The Brit Chadasha

The book of the genealogy of Yeshua ha-Mashiach, Ben-David, Ben-Avraham:
(Matthew 1:1 TLV)

Torah Portion readings and the associated Haftarah readings generally follow the Stone Edition Chumash and/or the Complete Jewish Bible. Verse numbering generally follows the Hebrew tradition, and where modern Christian traditions differ those verse numbers are shown in parentheses (). Haftarah readings generally follow the Ashkenazi tradition. Where the Sephardic tradition differs, the Haftarah portions are designated as (A) and (S). Suggested New Testament readings are taken from the Walk! series of Messianic Devotion Commentaries by Dr. Jeffrey Enoch Feinberg. The Key People, The Scenes, and The Main Events are taken from the Walk! series of Messianic Devotion Commentaries by Dr. Jeffrey Enoch Feinberg. Scripture taken from the Tree of Life Version (TLV) © 2015 by the Messianic Jewish Family Bible Society. Used by permission of the Messianic Jewish Family Bible Society.