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<font size=3>At 12:39 PM 11/1/2010, R. Micha wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">It also depends what emotion
destabilized Rivqa off her camel. Was<br>
she afraid of Yitzchaq, that he was too great for someone like her?<br>
Was it awe and excitement about the holiness of the man she was to<br>
marry?<br>
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</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3>According to RSRH Rivkah was
not "destablized" by emotion when she came down from the
camel she was riding. <br><br>
</font>Below is how he translates Bereishis 24: 64 and his commentary on
this Possuk. <br><br>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4><b>64
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3><i>Rivkah, too, looked up and
saw Yitzchak, and she let herself slip down from the camel.<br><br>
</i></b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3>During the journey,
Eliezer had undoubtedly made a point of telling<br>
her about Yitzchak. As a result, she recognized him immediately;
there<br>
is no need to say that she had an “intuitive presentiment.” She may
also<br>
have recognized the field from Eliezer’s description, and, seeing
the<br>
manner in which Yitzchak walked straight through the field to meet<br>
them, she may have concluded that here was the owner.<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4><b><i>Vatepol</i></b></font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3>, an intentional quick dismounting
from the camel. As it says of<br>
Na’aman: </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3><i>Vayipol
mayal hamerkavah l'krahso </i>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3>(</font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3><i>Melachim
</i></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3>II, 5:21) — out of
respect<br>
for Elisha, what is more, for his servant. Here, too, when meeting<br>
Yitzchak, Rivkah did not want to be riding high upon a camel’s back.<br>
This, too, is characteristic. A haughty young lady, when meeting her<br>
future husband, would certainly have preferred to come riding in
state,<br>
at the head of a long train of attendants, and then to permit him to<br>
help her alight from the camel. But especially since Yitzchak was
approaching<br>
her on foot, she did not consider it proper to ride to meet<br>
him. Moreover, riding was a sign of high rank, and Rivkah did not
want<br>
to appear as a grand lady when she met Yitzchak. This was not a
premeditated,<br>
calculated act on her part (if it had been so, her modesty<br>
would have been merely an act, difficult to distinguish from
arrogance);<br>
rather,
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4><i>Vatepol</i></font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3>, it all happened spontaneously,
without calculation, the result<br>
of intuition and correct feeling.<br><br>
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