Three Answered Mid-Sentence and the Well That Rose for Rebecca

"And it came to pass, before he had finished speaking" (Genesis 24:15). Three there were who were answered while the words were yet in their mouths: Eliezer the servant of Abraham, Moses, and Solomon. Eliezer, as it is written, "And it came to pass, before he had finished speaking." Moses, as it is written, "And it came to pass, as he finished speaking all these words, that the ground split open beneath them" (Numbers 16:31). Solomon, as it is written, "And as Solomon finished praying, the fire came down from heaven" (2 Chronicles 7:1). "And the maiden was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her" (Genesis 24:16). There we learned: a woman injured by wood [whose hymen was broken by accident], her marriage settlement is two hundred, the words of Rabbi Meir; but the sages say her settlement is a maneh. Rabbi Meir's reasoning is from here: "neither had any man known her" - but if she had been so injured she is still called a virgin. The sages' reasoning: "a virgin" - but had she been so injured she would not be called a virgin. Rabbi Yochanan said: no woman was ever first taken by one circumcised on the eighth day except Rebecca. Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish said: the daughters of the gentiles guard themselves in the place of nakedness but make themselves licentious in another place; but this one was a virgin in the place of virginity, "and no man had known her" in another place. Rabbi Yochanan said: from the implication of "a virgin" we do not yet know that no man had known her; rather, even no man had sought her, on the basis of "the scepter of wickedness shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous" (Psalms 125:3). "And she went down to the spring and filled" (Genesis 24:16). All the women would go down and fill from the spring, but this one - as soon as the waters saw her they rose up at once. The Holy One, blessed be He, said to her: you are a sign for your children. As you - the moment the waters saw you they rose - so your children, the moment the well sees them it shall rise, as it is written, "Then Israel sang this song: Spring up, O well, sing to it" (Numbers 21:17). "And the servant ran to meet her" (Genesis 24:17) - to meet her good deeds.