This week’s parashah begins with a death. And yet, it is called Chayei Sarah — The Life of Sarah. Sarah has died. Abraham mourns. He searches for a place to bury his life partner and negotiates the purchase of the Cave of Machpelah. There is something deeply meaningful in this gesture: in a land that does not yet belong to him, Abraham acquires his first piece of ground. Not to live on it. Not to build a home. But to bury his dead. Abraham’s first act of putting down root