Rebekah is pregnant at last — and the pregnancy is not gentle. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on Genesis 25:22 describes the twins inside her pressing against each other like men at war. She is so shaken by the violence of it that she cries out a half-line that breaks the reader's heart: "If this is the anguish of a mother, what then are children to me?"
And then she does something stunning. The Torah says simply, "She went to inquire of the Lord." The Targum is more specific. She "went into the school of Shem Rabba to supplicate mercy before the Lord."
Shem Rabba. Shem the Great. The same beit midrash where Isaac had been studying when Eliezer brought Rebekah home (Genesis 24:62 in the Targum). The study house of the son of Noah, the school that kept monotheism alive before Abraham, was apparently still open, still teaching, still accessible to a pregnant woman in distress.
Notice what Rebekah does not do. She does not go to a priestess. She does not consult an oracle. She does not interpret the kicking as a bad omen and panic. She goes to the beit midrash, where wise teachers can help her carry her question up to God.
This is the Jewish shape of spiritual distress. When the body hurts and the meaning is unclear, go to a place of Torah. Bring the question. Let the tradition help you address the heavens. Rebekah is the first person in the Torah to model what every Jewish woman after her has done — walk into the house of study carrying a pain too heavy to carry alone.