Isaac and Rebekah Pray Facing Each Other for Children

"The daughter of Bethuel the Aramean" (Genesis 25:20). If it already taught that she was from Paddan-Aram, what does Scripture teach by saying "the sister of Laban the Aramean"? Rather, it comes to teach you: her father was a deceiver, her brother was a deceiver, and the people of her place were deceivers - and this righteous woman who came out from among them, to what is she comparable? To a lily among thorns. It is written, "And Isaac sent Jacob, and he went to Paddan-Aram to Laban" and so on (Genesis 28:5), teaching that all of them were included in deceit. "And Isaac entreated the LORD" (Genesis 25:21). Rabbi Yochanan said: He poured out prayers abundantly [reading the word for "entreat" as related to abundance]. Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish said: He overturned the decree [reading it as related to "pitchfork"], and for this reason they call a pitchfork that turns over the grain by a name from this root. "Opposite his wife." This teaches that Isaac was prostrate here and she was prostrate there. He said before the Holy One, blessed be He: Master of the universe, may all the children You are destined to give me be from this righteous woman. And she said likewise. "For she was barren" - she had no womb-base at all, and the Holy One, blessed be He, fashioned for her a womb-base. "And the LORD let Himself be entreated by him" (Genesis 25:21). This is like a king's son who was boring through to his father to receive a litra of gold; the son bores from outside and the father bores from within.