Then the servant ran to meet her and said, “Please give me a little water to drink from your jar.”
Book of Genesis 24:17
The better half.
Or the complementary opposite. And we notice another point or edge of this parsha or weekly chapter of Hayé Sará.
Eliezer, Abraham's faithful servant, must find a wife for Isaac.
The servant seeks a girl who expresses the midah or quality of goodness.
And there appears Ribka or Rebecca, who expresses that natural tendency to do favors for others.
Kindness is closely linked to empathy, or putting oneself in another's shoes.
And to close the first block, one can think of a natural or spontaneous goodness, or on the other hand something that can be acquired (over time) after practicing it an infinite number of times.
Isaac and rigor.
Isaac is not like his father Abraham. He is characterized by rigor or personal discipline.
Your energy is almost entirely directed towards your personal and particular development.
How to build that direct but private channel between him and Divinity.
And so, he must stop looking at the outside world and at his neighbor, in order to be able to isolate himself and be able to plow and sow and work his own inner field.
It is a necessary separation (in its proper measure) for the colossal task of introspection.
In short, the Self displaces the other on this plane.
And it pushes outward the interest in one's neighbor.
To close this second block, rigor is another way to reach divine connection.
The screw and the nut.
Man and woman are complementary opposites.
One enters and the other receives, and the pair fulfills the function of union or connection which has to do with anatomical, physical and emotional differences.
The midah or property of strictness must be tempered with chesed or kindness.
Reflection for a finale.
It is a counterpoint, or an inflection, that enables conjunction and harmonious action.
Like the arrangement of these sefirot in the Kabbalistic tree, located at the same level or plane on the horizontal.
Like a seesaw, where one brakes and the other accelerates. A mutual, harmonious and perfect regulation for this couple.
And he concluded with what verse 67 of the same chapter says: “Isaac took her to the tent (Chupá) of his mother Sarah; he took Ribka and she became his wife, and he loved her (cohabited with her).”
The Shidduch worked.
Shavua Tov.
Dr. Natalio Daitch