<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><i><br></i></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><i>V'Avraham zakein bah bayamim</i>….Bereishis 24:1; "And Abraham was old [and] came with his days."</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">A very enlightening comment by an unknown author suggests that bah bayamim actually refers</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">to beis yamim, TWO days. In this sense Abraham lived with two days constantly before his eyes:</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><i>yom hivaldo</i> (day of his birth) and <i>yom hamvaet </i>(day of his death). The former motivated and </div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">encouraged him to search and probe into such perplexing questions as why man was born? Why</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">was he divinely endowed with a will to choose freely the type of life he will live? The latter, on the</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">other hand (<i>yom hamavet</i>), provoked thought on man's ultimate destiny and how man will face his</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Maker? Hence, the day Abraham lived in was the first day plus the two days before him added up to</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">three. It could be said that Abraham was constantly prepared to receive the Torah. </div></div><div><br></div><div>"<font face="Verdana"><i>Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity. When I give, I give myself</i></font>." Walt Whitman</div>
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