The World Lost Its Leader When Abraham Died

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 110:4

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"And Abraham expired and died" (Genesis 25:8). Rav Chanan bar Rava said in the name of Rav: on that day when our father Abraham departed from the world, all the great ones of the nations of the world stood in a row and said: woe to the world that has lost its leader, and woe to the ship that has lost its captain.

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AbrahamDeathRighteousness

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