Toldos - How to Love Someone Who Is Hurting Differently Than You

How can two people be going through the same painful experience and still feel terribly alone? Why is it that the person we love most sometimes seems to understand our pain the least?

Yitzchak and Rivka both struggle with childlessness, yet Rashi tells us that they stood in separate corners to daven. Why separate corners? And why was Yitzchak's tefillah answered rather than Rivka's?

In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explores the remarkable teachings of Chazal about Yitzchak and Rivka's tefillos. Drawing on the Medrash, Sforno, Radak, Maharshal, and Chida, we discover what it means to share a life without losing our individuality, how to recognize that our spouse may be hurting in a completely different way than we are, and how even in our most difficult moments, we can remain deeply connected to one another.

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