Life of Sarah Our First Mother

Sarah’s years are described in two ways:

The Torah describes her life as 100 years and 20 years and 7 years. The Zohar describes her life as 90 years and 37 years. According to the Zohar, her life consisted of the years prior to the birth of Yitzchak (90 years) and the years of her life together with Yitzchak (37 years).

1. An important hint to the importance of the birth of Yitzchak (יצחק) was indicated in his name.

The second letter indicates the age of Sarah at his birth the fourth letter indicates the age of Avrohom at this birth. What are those ages?

2. Fill in the chart below for years of the special events in Sarah’s life

(Hint: Avrohom was born in 1948)

SARAHYear from CreationEvent??Birth of Sarah15 ??Sarah Married90 ??Birth of Yitzchak127 ??Death of Sarah

3. The Gematria (numeric value of the letters) of the first word of the Parsha hints which period was most significant to the life of Sarah. Which period is it?

4. Which two of the following words are connected to the concept above?

אדם, הבל, רבקה, לאה, יחידה

5. Bonus: At what age did Rivkah get married? (see end of last week’s Parsha)

6. Bonus: Who else “lived” 127 years (Medrosh)?