"Just as their days are perfect so too their years perfect" Why the Torah chooses to accredit perfection of the righteous to chronological age and an elderly appearance; the necessity of both excelling in personal spiritual growth and positively affecting the world at large during our lifetime.

Chayei Sarah - The Seeds of Indestructibility

By Robert Kremnizer

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Chayei Sarah: A Life of Harmony and Synthesis

Likkutei Sichos, Volume 3 Chayei Sarah

By The Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson

The Sages’ describe Sarah as a paradigm of a righteous person who “was perfect and whose years were perfect.” Why was Sarah chosen as the exemplar of one who possessed these two qualities, what is implied by the Sages’ use of the term “perfect,” and why did our Sages associate a righteous person’s inner perfection with the perfection of their years.

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Chayei Sarah: When G-d Answers Immediately

Likkutei Sichos, Volume 20, Chayei Sarah, 3

By The Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson

We all pray. At times, we see our prayers answered on this physical plane. However, there is usually an interval between the time we offer our supplications and the manifestation of G‑d’s response.

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Chayei Sarah: Rivkah’s Shabbos Lights

Likkutei Sichos, Volume 15, Chayei Sarah, 3

By The Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson

Every Jewish woman and girl, even a young child at the age of three who kindles the Shabbos lights, possesses a great power that even Avraham and Yitzchak’s Shabbos lights did not have.