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\u201cIsaac brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother, and he took Rebecca as his wife; he loved her, and thus Isaac found comfort after his mother\u2019s death.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Poor Isaac. His own father ties him up, holds a knife over him, ready to slaughter him. Suddenly at the last moment, he is released from that terror, untied and freed – only to come home and find his mother dead.<\/span><\/p>\n

To make matters worse, according to Rashi: <\/span>The death of Sarah is juxtaposed with the binding of Isaac, because when Sarah heard the news that her son was being prepared for sacrifice, before she could learn that he was not sacrificed, her soul left her and she died.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Imagine the horror. Isaac returns home from the his own near-death only to be told that his mother died because she thought <\/span>he<\/span><\/em> was dead!<\/span><\/p>\n

What was Isaac thinking at that moment? Did he hate his father? Was he angry at God? Was he experiencing terrible survivor\u2019s guilt, blaming himself for his mother\u2019s death? Did he return, again and again, to the irrational thought that <\/span>he<\/span><\/i> had caused his mother\u2019s death? (And this, remember, was the mother whose prayers he answered by being born in her old age; the mother who loved him so fiercely that she would cast out anyone who threatened him.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Unbound from the altar, still shaking from terror, Isaac is released directly into mourning. Trauma piled on top of trauma. How does he cope? What does he do to deal with the pain?<\/span><\/p>\n

Isaac wanders through the fields. He prays for the ache of grief to go away. But it doesn\u2019t work. Nothing works. <\/span><\/p>\n

Until one day, out there in the fields, he looks up – and sees Rebecca. And he falls in love.<\/span><\/p>\n

Isaac needed to love. That was the only way out of his sorrow. His heart, which had been broken in so many ways, needed a new purpose. A new love.<\/span><\/p>\n

Isaac\u2019s was a unique trauma. Who else was bound to the altar by his father, only to indirectly cause the death of his mother? And so it took a unique love to heal that kind of pain. Isaac didn\u2019t just need a wife, he needed Rebecca. In fact, the name ‘Rebecca\u2019 (\u05e8\u05d1\u05e7\u05d4) comes from a root in Hebrew that means, \u201cto couple, \u201cto join,\u201d or even, \u201cto tie together.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Isaac, who had once been tied to the altar of death, could only finally be unbound by someone who could tie him tightly to the altar of love.<\/span><\/p>\n

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