Learning from Rivkah How to Help Soldiers Win

Our teacher, the holy Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer shlit"a, in sacred words — 23 Cheshvan 5784

Rivkah was the only kosher daughter, Rashi says. Everyone should learn the parashah with Rashi—both boys and girls. Eliezer, Avraham’s servant, said: I can’t even find a needle in a haystack (to find a worthy wife for Yitzchak in Charan). How will he find the one kosher daughter? How will he find her? How will he clarify it—who will he ask?

Avraham told him, “My angel will go before you” (Shemos 32:34)—go together with angels. And then he saw that the water rose up to meet her: the well was seven hundred meters deep, yet the water rose on its own and the jug “jumped” by itself. The Midrash asks: how is it possible to water ten camels? Can a three-year-old girl water ten camels? Rather, the jug lifted itself (because of Rivkah’s holiness). And a camel drinks in three days what will last for thirty days. There remained only a quarter of an hour “toward evening” (Yeshayah 17:14), because they had to come before sunset.

Once, if a girl came after sunset, they would tie her to the fence with a rag in her mouth. That is the custom in the territories until today: a girl who comes home after sunset—they tie her to the fence with a rag in her mouth so no one will hear her screams. And she is left in the cold, in snow, in pouring rain—no one cares. That is how any girl who is five minutes late after sunset receives brutal beatings.

Rivkah says: I have to run home—if I come after sunset, they will tie me to the fence, put a rag in my mouth, and beat me brutally. But for your sake I am staying here, because Eliezer said: I will say to her, “Please give me a little water to drink” (Bereishis 24:17)—just a drop. If she brings water for all the camels, it is a sign that “her You have designated” (Bereishis 24:14).

Because a woman must always give double. If they ask for one cup—bring two cups. If they ask for a cup of juice—bring two cups of juice. If they ask for kneidlach—bring meindlach. If they ask for kreplach—bring blintzes.

Every day ten soldiers are being killed now, to our sorrow—that is all because not all the girls have yet lengthened their dresses.

Every girl must lengthen her dresses down to the ankle—then they will see that no soldier will be killed.

And may we merit the complete Geulah speedily in our days, Amen!