Sarah, Abraham's Wife

[Ms Tercy Lonan]

SARAH, ABRAHAM’S WIFE
“Abraham married his niece Sarai, daughter of Haran.
She was ten years younger than Abraham, but was no less
righteous, and later even surpassed her spouse in the gift of
prophecy.”
Whenever the Midrash mentions any woman, it refers to
“your inner woman” (whether you are a male or a female).
Therefore, Sarai, who later became Sarah, symbolizes the
desire to receive within you, which is your inner woman.


As long as the woman inside you exists without the
right intention, she serves the destructive ego. But once the
right intention is attached to her, the woman becomes a
constructive force.
So it is here. “Abraham,” the intention to bestow, marries
Sarah, the desire to receive, and thus transforms her into
a righteous woman. By unifying with Abraham, Sarah,
the desire to receive, acquires the intention to bestow
and becomes a pure and exalted state, and you begin to
understand the meaning of true happiness, what it means
to think about others instead of yourself, and what true love
feels like.
Subsequently, Sarah becomes more exalted than
Abraham because she contains an egoism that’s absent in
Abraham because he is inherently pure, the quality of Bina
in you. Next, Sarah becomes the mother of all.
Abraham begins to attach the egoistic desires to himself
and purify them. The first and closest desire to him is
Sarah, followed by his students, whom we will discuss soon,
then his sons—Isaac, Jacob—until you’ve achieved complete
purification. As you’ve learned time and again, we’re always
talking about what is happening within you.
It is written about Sarah that “She later even surpassed
her spouse in the gift of prophecy.” There is no doubt about
it because the Abraham in you is absolute bestowal and is
therefore detached from egoism. Sarah, however, epitomizes
your egoistic desire. Hence, in unifying with Abraham, she
becomes a very significant figure (desire inside you).
Sarah is closer to the earth. It is written that she (as is
every woman in our world) is not “detached from life,” and


at the same time she is connected to Abraham. This is why
she can prophesy while being understood and admired.
But let us return to the Midrash. It is written, “By that
time Abraham has turned exactly seventy…” This means
that all seven Sephirot (Hesed, Gevura, Tifferet, Netzah, Hod,
Yesod, and Malchut), the whole of Abraham, this entire
desire within you, becomes corrected (by attaching to itself
the previous degree of Terah, who believed in his son). And
since each individual Sephira comprises 10 Sephirot, there are
seventy in all.