Wednesday, May 2, 2012

רבקה and יצחק

אליעזר comes to בתואל and לבן to take רבקה as a wife for יצחק. However, בתואל and לבן were idol worshippers. So after אליעזר gives them all of these gifts and stuff, and he asks if she is ready to go, they ask if she can stay. When they go to רבקה to ask her, thinking she'd say no and they'd have all the gifts, she actually says yes and goes with them. 

She's on the camel going there and she comes up to the place, she has no idea who יצחק is yet and she sees him praying and just falls off her camel. Because she's from an idol worshipping people, so she's overwhelmed at the site of him contemplating G-d. She takes a scarf and hides herself - showing that she felt a little inferior to him.

When they get married, it says that יצחק is in love with her and he's comforted by her, but it never mentions רבקה. We don't see any interaction between them. This is weird to us because it's like the polar opposite of אברהם and שרה. 

I find it really interesting how רבקה is so overwhelmed by יצחק praying/contemplating G-d. Often times, when learning תורה we don't think of there being other people other than the Jewish people. And especially when thinking רבקה we don't think that. So it's interesting to actually think that she was so used to idol worshipping that she wasn't used to contemplating G-d and was so overwhelmed by it. 

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