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A sad but inspiring article about a successful career woman putting her life on hold to move back home and help her mother care for her father who is sick with Alzheimer's, featured in the NY Times.
I just came across a midrash about Rivka and Sarah which struck me as interesting (Hebrew below) (Bereshit Rabbah 58:2):
"The sun rises and the sun sets..." (Ecclesiastes 1:5) Rabbi Abba said, "Don't we already know that the sun rises and the sun sets? Rather [it comes to teach us] that before God sets the sun of a righteous person, God raises the sun of his friend [another] righteous person. [For example] On the day that Rabbi Akiva died Rabbenu [Rebbe Yehuda Hanasi] was born... On the day that Rabbenu died, Rabbi Ada bar Ahava was born... Before God caused the sun of Moses to set, God raised the sun of Joshua..."
Rabbi Yochanan said, "like an innocent calf [follows it's master]. Before God caused the sun of Sarah to decline, God raised up the sun of Rebecca. First it said, 'Milcah has born children...' and in the end it said, 'And Sarah's life-span came to...'."
The first half is a midrash which Rashi cites when discussing the passing of leadership from Moses to Joshua and from Eli to Samuel. It interprets the verse from Kohelet in a somewhat allegorical sense, the sun referring to the many cycles of tzaddikim (righteous people). However, the statement of Rabbi Yochanan both builds on the previous midrash and adds a new layer of meaning to it.
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