Parsha Chayei Sarah
Chapter 24 - Verse 67 and Chapter 25 Verses 1 - 6.
From Ch 24, V. 67 we learn the Torah philosophy about love. First comes the commitment and then next comes the love. In a marriage the foundation has to be trust. Build a bayis filled with trust & emunah. When a person is considering marriage, even when he is not so in love, but look up to and admire the other person, and you are ready to make that commitment, then the feelings will come later.
Rashi says when Yitzhak brought Rivka into the tent of his mother, Sarah, she became Sarah his mother. This means, all the blessings that Sarah had returned to the tent. This verse is the source of the three key mitzvot that are meant to be the specific responsibility of Jewish women.
Family Purity: As long as Sarah lived, a [Divine] cloud hung over her tent; when she died, that cloud disappeared; but when Rivka came, it returned. This is reference to family purity, which is the euphemism used for the laws pertaining to marital relations. One of the primary concepts of family purity is that such matters should remain private (clouded).
Challah: As long as Sarah lived, there was a blessing on her dough (understood to mean that the dough stayed fresh all week). The mitzvah of “taking challah” (separating a part of the dough as sacred) is a woman’s mitzvah.
Candle Lighting: “...and the lamp used to burn from Erev Shabbat until the evening of the following Shabbat."
Chapter 25 Verses 1 - 6
Avraham takes Keturah as his wife at age 140. Keturah is Hagar. Just as Hashem told Avraham to send away Hagar, he told him again to marry her, as she did teshuva. Ketura had 6 more sons upon this remarriage, but all Avrahams possessions went to Yitzhak.
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