EXTRA · classical (not a TT unit)

Chayei Sarah 23:7 · EXTRA

Parashas Chayei Sarah · Passuk 23:7

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וַיָּ֧קָם אַבְרָהָ֛ם וַיִּשְׁתַּ֥חוּ לְעַם־הָאָ֖רֶץ לִבְנֵי־חֵֽת׃

Thereupon Avraham bowed low before the people of the land, the children of Cheis,

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Source Citation

AUDIT HOLD — exact primary-source locus not yet established. The current repository wording is a reconstructed humility summary and is not being presented as a verified quotation.

Lemma / focus: וישתחו לעם הארץ.

Sefaria — Genesis 23:7

AUDIT HOLD — Source Verification Required

Not a verified Chazal quotation

The existing Hebrew formulation has not been tied to an exact primary-source witness to the project's standard. It is intentionally withheld from presentation as Core Text until the underlying source is established.

Audit status: Do not treat the previous reconstructed wording as a quotation from Chazal. The page remains structurally intact while source verification is pending.

Type of Learning

Derash on the verse (midrashic character reading) — not a formal named middah of the 13: the act of bowing is taken as a model of necessary humility in pursuit of a mitzvah.

What Is Learned

Avraham bowed before the people of the land; the Patriarch’s humility before the children of Cheis is the means by which he advances the burial of Sarah.