Parshas Chayei Sarah 5787
Rabbi Dr Immanel Schochet z"l (Living with Moshiach) would say:
“'וישקל אברהם לעפרון את הכסף' - Avraham Avinu's purchase of the field which contained the Cave of Machpelah represents the beginning of the general redemption of the Jewish people. The Sefer Pa'ane'ach Raza explains that with the 400 silver shekels that Avraham paid for the cave, he purchased one square amah of the Land of Israel for every one of the 600,000 neshamos (root-souls) of Klal Yisroel. For by the estimation of 'the seed of a chomer of barley at fifty silver shekels' (Vayikra 27:16), 400 silver shekels redeem exactly 600,000 square cubits.”
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A Wise Man would say:
"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy."