Insights from Toras Reb Levi Yitzchok, a weekly class based on the teachings of Harav Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, chief rabbi of the city of Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, during the bloody Bolshevik revolution and the subsequent Communist oppression and father of the Rebbe.
The shiur is presented by Rabbi Dovid Dubov, Director of Chabad of Mercer County in Princeton, New Jersey, and author of Yalkut Levi Yitzchok, an anthology of commentaries collected from the works of Harav Levi Yitzchak, of blessed memory.
Organized by Irguntorah.org and aired on community news service COLlive.com.
From The Rebbe’s Father זצ״ל
Chaya Sara
Avrohom rose from the presence of his deceased wife, and he spoke to the Hittites in these words:
I am a foreigner, and only a sojourner among you. Allow me to purchase a piece of property that I can make into a family burial ground within the territory you control, so that I can bury my deceased (wife) from my presence.
23:3.4.
Questions
A) Why did Avrohom not have a burial place till now?
B) Why was it בני חת who sold it to Avrohom?
לקוטי לוי יצחק , לקוטי על מחז״ל ע׳ יד ואילך
ילקוט לוי יצחק חיי שרה סימן קמט
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In connection – Two stories from the Rebbe
1) Why isn’t there a funeral home in Crown Heights.
B) Why the Rebbe refused to give a letter to the Sefer דרכי חסד
On the laws and custom of Mourning.
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I don’t want to watch a video. Can anyone or this poster post the answer – why is there no funeral chapel in CH? It’s not as if it’s not a chabad thing. most go to the one in BP anyway on the way to burial
According to the video . . . it was the Rebbe’s nature to deal only with “lively things”, things of “chaim (life)”, that’s why he didn’t allow the Chevra Kadisha to open a funeral home in Crown Heights.