This week’s parasha [Torah passage] is Toldot [Genesis 25:19 to 28:9], which begins:
And these are the genealogies [toldot] of Isaac, the son of Abraham; Abraham begot Isaac. And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebecca… for a wife. And Isaac prayed to Hashem [the LORD] opposite his wife, because she was barren, and Hashem accepted his prayer, and Rebecca his wife conceived.
The Torah explicitly juxtaposes Isaac’s marriage to Rebecca with Isaac’s successful prayer. One of the Torah’s central principles of interpretation is that when two ideas or passages are placed side by side, there must be an intrinsic connection between them. What is the connection between marriage and prayer?
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Keywords: marriage, husband and wife, husbands and wives, husbands, wives, wife, marry, matrimony, pray, prayer, prayers, praying, Isaac and Rebecca
Bible reference(s): Genesis 25:21
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