[Avodah] Bereshit 23: 6-16

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>> What is going on in these 10 pesouqim?....


.....Why  such a large concentration of SH.M.'A. in these pesouqim?

Do we find this  any where else?

If that wasn't enough we also have all these instances of  people talking
into ears.



This may sound silly but was  everyone deaf???



Any ideas? <<



Joey  Mosseri

 
 
 
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A big part of it is Ephron making a big deal out of his supposed generosity 
 by talking "in the ears" of his clansmen and townspeople -- it highlights 
his  hypocrisy.  He really has no intention of giving Me'aras Hamachpela to  
Avraham as a gift -- on the contrary, he is greedy and wants top dollar -- 
but  he wants to appear like a paragon of generosity in front of his 
audience.  
 
And then part of it is that Avraham "hears"  -- REALLY hears -- what  
Ephron is /really/ saying -- and says, "Just as you said, here, I'm giving you  
400 shekels for your land."  Just as you said?  He said he was giving  it as 
a gift!  But Avraham /heard/ his real intention when he said  publicly, 
"It's worth 400 shekels."  
 
Actually Ephron way overpriced it but Avraham paid the full price and  
said, again in the ears of everybody -- a large public gathering, evidently --  
"I've bought this land and it's mine and my children's forever now, bought 
and  paid for in front of ("in the hearing of" -- "in the ears of") everybody 
here,  everybody who might possibly ever try to make a claim."  If there is 
any  spot in E'Y that absolutely totally and forever BELONGS TO US it is 
Me'aras  Hamachpela, the resting place of our Fathers and Mothers.  May  G-d 
curse the nations who try to take it from us, the bloody thieves.
 

--Toby Katz
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