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1901 * 1904 * 1909<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Chayei Sarah (\u05d7\u05d9\u05d9 \u05e9\u05e8\u05d4 \u2013 The Life of Sarah)<\/strong>
Genesis 23:1\u201325:18; I Kings 1:1\u201331<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarah dies. To bury her, Avraham buys from Efron the Hittite the field and the Cave of Machpelah for four hundred shekels of silver. He then sends his servant to find a wife for Yitzhak. At his death, Avraham is buried beside Sarah by his sons Yitzhak and Ishmael. In the haftarah, King David, now old, has Shlomo anointed to succeed him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Genesis 23:15 [1]<\/sup><\/strong>
\u05d0\u05b2\u05d3\u05b9\u05e0\u05b4\u05d9 \u05e9\u05b0\u05c1\u05de\u05b8\u05e2\u05b5\u05e0\u05b4\u05d9 \u05d0\u05b6\u05e8\u05b6\u05e5 \u05d0\u05b7\u05e8\u05b0\u05d1\u05b7\u05bc\u05e2 \u05de\u05b5\u05d0\u05b9\u05ea \u05e9\u05b6\u05c1\u05e7\u05b6\u05dc\u05be\u05db\u05b6\u05bc\u05e1\u05b6\u05e3 \u05d1\u05b5\u05bc\u05d9\u05e0\u05b4\u05d9 \u05d5\u05bc\u05d1\u05b5\u05d9\u05e0\u05b0\u05da\u05b8 \u05de\u05b7\u05d4\u05be\u05d4\u05b4\u05d5\u05d0 \u05d5\u05b0\u05d0\u05b6\u05ea\u05be\u05de\u05b5\u05ea\u05b0\u05da\u05b8 \u05e7\u05b0\u05d1\u05b9\u05e8<\/strong>
\u201cMy lord, listen to me! A land worth four hundred shekels of silver, between me and you, what is that? Bury your dead.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Avraham is the first Jew to acquire a plot of the Land of Israel. So that no one could ever contest his right, he pays Efron for the field at full price, publicly, before the elders of the city [2]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nearly four thousand years later, the Jewish people renewed this act. On December 29, 1901, in Basel, the Fifth Zionist Congress founded the Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael (KKL), the Jewish National Fund, to acquire land in the Land of Israel on behalf of the Jewish people [3]<\/sup>. In homes all over the world, the \u201cBlue Box\u201d collected the coins [4]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1904, the KKL redeemed at Hulda, near Rehovot, its first land bought from non-Jewish owners [5]<\/sup>. Herzl died that same year. Four years later, an olive grove was planted there in his memory. In 1909, a large house rose among the trees: Herzl House [6]<\/sup>. In 1912, the KKL planted its first pine forest there, and the farm trained pioneers in agriculture and forestry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1929, Ephraim Chizik fell defending the house [7]<\/sup>. Restored for the State\u2019s fiftieth anniversary, it reopened in 2023 as \u201cHerzl Farm.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[1]<\/sup> The names Avraham (\u05d0\u05d1\u05e8\u05d4\u05dd) and Efron (\u05e2\u05e4\u05e8\u05d5\u05df) share only one letter, the \u05e8, placed at the center of each, \u201cbetween me and you.\u201d The \u05e8 is worth 200, and the two letters together make 400. In the next verse (23:16), Efron\u2019s name loses its vav and is spelled \u05e2\u05e4\u05e8\u05df. According to the Baal HaTurim, it is then worth 400, like \u05e2\u05d9\u05df \u05e8\u05e2, \u201cthe evil eye.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/sup> According to Bereshit Rabbah (79:7), there are three places of which the nations can never say \u201cyou stole them,\u201d because they were paid for in full: the Cave of Machpelah, bought by Avraham (Genesis 23:16), the Temple Mount, bought by David (I Chronicles 21:25), and Joseph\u2019s Tomb in Shechem, bought by Yaakov (Genesis 33:19).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/sup> The idea came from the mathematician Hermann Zvi Schapira, who had proposed it at the First Congress in 1897.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/sup> Conceived by Chaim Kleinman, a bank clerk in Galicia, it was spread by Yona Kremenetzky, the Fund\u2019s first president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/sup> The KKL\u2019s very first purchase was Kfar Hittim, in the Lower Galilee, but that land was already in Jewish hands. Hulda was its \u201cfirst act of redemption.\u201d Kibbutz Hulda\u2019s own history dates it to 1905. As the Fund did not yet have legal status, the land was registered in the name of David Zalman Levontin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/sup> It was built for the agronomist Louis Barish, the farm\u2019s first director. His successor, Yitzhak Vilkansky, turned it into a training farm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/sup> Having come from the Galilee to help the defenders, Ephraim Chizik sheltered them in the house and led the defense, before being shot dead. A monument to the fallen pioneers, \u201cLabor and Defense,\u201d sculpted by Batya Lichansky, was unveiled on the site in 1937.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chayei Sarah (\u05d7\u05d9\u05d9 \u05e9\u05e8\u05d4 \u2013 The Life of Sarah)Genesis 23:1\u201325:18; I Kings 1:1\u201331 Sarah dies. To bury her, Avraham buys from Efron the Hittite the field and the Cave of Machpelah for four hundred shekels of silver. He then sends his servant to find a wife for Yitzhak. At his death, Avraham is buried beside … Continuer la lecture de Herzl House, Hulda Forest, Israel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2677],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebdosyna.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebdosyna.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebdosyna.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebdosyna.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebdosyna.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hebdosyna.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6718,"href":"https:\/\/hebdosyna.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6716\/revisions\/6718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebdosyna.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebdosyna.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebdosyna.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}