Chayei Sarah - in The Liturgy

In The Liturgy

The parshah is reflected in these parts of the Jewish liturgy:

In the Blessing after Meals (Birkat Hamazon), at the close of the fourth blessing (of thanks for God’s goodness), Jews allude to God’s blessing of the Patriarchs described in Gensis 24:1, 27:33 and 33:11.

The Sages deduced from Isaac’s “meditation . . . toward evening” in Genesis 24:63 that Isaac began the practice of the afternoon (מִנְחָה, mincha) prayer service.

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