Sarah lived to be a hundred and twenty-seven years old. She died at Kiriath Arba.
//Do you picture Isaac as a young boy when Abraham took him up the
mountain to sacrifice him? Most people do. But one wonders how he is
able to carry the wood for the sacrifice on his back if he's a child.
Instead,
according to both the Talmud and the Kabbalah, Isaac was a fully-grown
man of 37 years old. Now, if we do the math, Isaac was born to Sarah
when she was 90, and Sarah died when she was 127 years old, so that
would make Isaac 37 years old. Thus Sarah died in the year God told
Abraham to sacrifice Isaac, his son.
We
can probably pin the time of her death down even further. After Abraham
(and presumably Isaac) trudge back down the mountain after the aborted
sacrifice, they head off to Beersheba. The very next thing we read is
that Sarah died at Kiriath Arba (Hebron), and Abraham "went" to mourn
for her. So Abraham never saw his wife again alive after he left to
sacrifice Isaac. Batteries hadn’t been invented yet, so Abraham’s cell
phone would have been no help. We are left with the assumption that
Sarah died of heartache from Abraham travelling off to murder her only
son.
So, God saves Abraham's son from sacrifice but the ordeal kills his wife?
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