A Rose among Thorns

In this week's Torah Portion, Chayei Sarah, we come across a very perplexing thing.

The content centers around the events leading to the marriage of our great grand-parents, Yitzchak (Issac) and Rivkah (Rebecca).
We are told in great detail and at great length, how Avraham's trusted servant Eliezer travels to Rivkah's town and finds her.
Rivkah then shows great kindness and sensitivity in providing water for each of his camels, showing the sterling character befitting as holy a mate as Yitzchak (note to those looking for a spouse: Kindness!)
Then, when he reaches the home of Rivkah's family, the ENTIRE episode is re-told to us in the Torah, as Eliezer explains the miraculous events that led to his finding Rivkah. This saga ends happily, as Rivkah agrees to marry Yitzchak and comes with Eliezer. Rivkah and Yitzchak then embark on their special lives of purity and spreading of good, and in the ultimate creation of the beginnings of the Jewish people.
Ummm, why is this so strange again?
It's strange because the Torah never wastes words. Every single letter & word is learned from & pored over by our sages. To teach us critical laws and Mitzvot about how we are to live our lives for all generations, the Torah generally suffices with very few words. Sometimes it suffices with hints in 1 letter!
Yet we find with Yitzchak and Rivkah's match and subsequent marriage, pages and pages of information told to us, not once but twice! This is the A.D.D. generation man!
Why write at such great length? The Torah could have just written:"And Yitzchak married Rivkah" - or at least something shorter than what we have.

The inner dimension of the Torah bails us out as usual, explaining to us what's really going on here.

Before his marriage, Yitzchak had reached an amazing degree of spiritual perfection. He was the 1st Jew to have a circumcision at 8 days, was then guided & educated by his father Avraham. He later showed an eagerness to sacrifice his Life for G-d, from which point he attained an extremely elevated level and was considered as a blemish-less being. He wasn't allowed to even leave the land of Israel because of his great sanctity.
Rivkah, on the other hand, is described in the mystical writings, quoting the Song of Songs, as: "A rose among the thorns."
She was born in a wicked, idolatrous family, far removed from Issac's pure upbringing.
THUS, the union of Yitzchak & Rivkah was a meeting of extremes. It is for this very reason that the Torah goes to such lengths to focus on and expound the events leading to their coming together. For Torah is a guide to uniting extremes. Whenever a mitzvah is fulfilled, a mundane physical object becomes infused with G-dliness.
The marriage of Yitzchak & Rivkah thus represents the marriage of the physical and the spiritual.
This meeting precipitated the meeting & marriage of G-d & the Jewish people under the canopy of Mt. Sinai, with the giving of the Torah, a Torah which when followed produces a fusion of physical and spiritual. A blessing of praise to G-d upon eating a salad, fuses its physicality with a spiritual force.

May we all succeed in following our parents Yitzchak and Rivkah, using this ability we all have to unite the 2 extremes of this physical existence & its spiritual counterpart -
into a beautiful harmony that can be tangibly felt.

Shabbat Shalom!

-Daniel