parsha bit: Chayei Sarah

[cellio]

When the torah tells us about Yitzchak's marriage to Rivka, it says he married her and he loved her. The rabbis pick up on that ordering. Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch teaches that this is because the wedding should not be the summit of the relationship but, rather, the seed of future love.

My usual tertiary sources failed me this week; I was looking for midrash on the portion, not commentary. Is there a collection of midrash bits, sorted by theme or (ideally) parsha, akin to Baron's quotations? It seems like a handy tool for enhancing sermons.

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[magid.livejournal.com]

I don't know if there's an English version, but the Torah Shlaimah (not sure how the second word would be transliterated, if you end up looking for it) is a compendium of lots and lots of midrash on each parasha. Each parasha has its own volume. (I have only one, for parshat Breishit, figuring that if I could afford only one (at the time), it might as well be the one we'd studied for months :-). Also off possible use, the Ayn Yaakov (Jacob's Well), which has the aggadic parts of the Gemara.