Yaakov purchases Shechem

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1. Eretz Yisrael

   Rabbi Zeev Weitman

   Why it is so important for Avraham to buy land specifically for the purpose of burying Sara? He never demonstrates such stubborn insistence on owning the land upon which he pitches his tent, grazes his flocks, builds altars, or digs wells. Is it more important to buy a plot of land in order to be buried in Eretz Yisrael than it is to buy land in order to live upon it? Is it possible that Jews who live their entire lives in the Diaspora, their only concern concerning Israel being that they will be buried there, have a point?

2. Ibn Ezra and Ramban on the Forefathers' Land in Eretz Yisrael

   Rabbi David Silverberg

3. Ramban on Vayechi: BeCharvi u-veKashti - With My Sword and Bow

   Rabbi Ezra Bick | 33 minutes

   We will examine Ramban’s comments to the verse about the special grant from Yaakov to Yosef. Is this grant referring to the city of Shechem, or to an extra portion in general? And why does Yaakov describe himself as having taken it with his sword and bow, especially when Yaakov had been very angry at his sons for using the sword against Shechem?  Is the sword and bow literal, metaphorical or both?

   Ramban assumes that Yaakov refers to a double portion for Yosef - and that the reference to the sword is a hint to the future of Bnei Yisrael for when they conquer the Land. The Land of Israel must be conquered naturally, but with the help God, Who remembers the merit of the forefathers.