This concept I saw from the Alter of Kelm.
The world is mistaken,
When someone takes ill,
Boruch Hashem, many come to his aide,
A tragedy strikes,
The family of Kllal Yisroel
Comes together and helps,
In any way they can,
Mi K’Amcha Yisroel
But we face a challenge,
A flaw in our character,
A lack of feeling the burden of a friend,
When the ill person is “out of the woods”,
But still has a long way to go,
The “shiva”, the “shloshim” is over,
Back to dealing with regular life,
With a hole in the heart,
Cancer went into remission but still weak,
Mother almost dies in childbirth but made it,
She will be OK,
We rejoice that things will be OK,
And then we forget,
We don’t feel the pain anymore,
Of the sick one who is not so sick,
But not yet healthy,
This is not as he should be,
As long as the sick person it not as his or her original strength,
We still must feel the pain.
The widow was falling apart to pieces,
We help, we give chizzuk,
A year later, much stronger, coping better,
Even smiling,
We cannot forget that she is still alone.
Rivka was not in “Hatzalah”
Was not a firefighter,
Was not a life guard that saved a drowning child,
Did not run into the Twin Towers to save a handicap person stuck there,
Did not protect an abused child or battered wife,
Did not gun down Nazi’s in Polish forests,
These are all brave and wonderful things,
But Rivka did something different
She gave water to some camels .
That small effort of drawing water from the well,
After either the well or the water came up to her,
That small kindness,
To save Eliezer the effort of drawing the water,
If she would not have done this,
She would not have been the daughter-in-law of Avraham,
Nor the wife of Yitzchok,
Nor the mother of Yaakov,
The mother of Klall Yisroel,
See what a little kindness does,
That is what expected from every one of us,
We all could do this.
Same here with day 52 of 90,
Or day 97 going forward,
Or 5 weeks after a major fall,
It still stings,
Coping, yes
Functioning, yes
On the way up, yes
But still in pain
That pain is very easy to forget,
Like the kid who is stuck in the emergency room for 4 hours,
Because there are much worse cases that have to come first,
This is true
This is reality,
The most seriously hurt must come first,
But Rivka would not forget about that hurt scared kid,
He is not there to watch TV or play checkers.
The small kindness is so powerful
And so easily forgotton,
So the Torah introduces Rivka in a very simple quiet way
She is not the bionic woman trying to stop a terrorist from killing millions
She is simply being kind
That is why she is our mother.
