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ויזכר אלהים את רחל AND GOD REMEMBERED RACHEL — He remembered it to her as a merit that she had transmitted the secret signs to her sister and that she was greatly troubled lest she should fall to Esau’s lot if Jacob were to divorce her because she was childless. Indeed, this had entered Esau’s mind when he heard that she was childless (Genesis Rabbah 73:4). The poet refers to this in his Composition (for the First Day of the New Year) “When the Ruddy One (Esau) perceived that she did not travail with child, he hoped to take her for himself and she became terrified”.

Elokim remembered Rochel. He remembered the efforts she made to produce offspring for Yaakov by giving him her maidservant and acquiring the jasmine flowers.

ויזכר אלוקים את רחל, G'd remembered Rachel, etc. We hear from this verse that although Rachel's plight was on G'd's mind, she also needed to pray in order to conceive and give birth. This is why the Torah added: "G'd heard."

And God remembered: after it appeared as thought she was forgotten, since they had all given birth and she had not given birth. God saw the insults and remembered her.

He remembered that she gave her signs to her sister... Otherwise, what did He remember about her? In Scripture, זכירה always refers to a deed. For example (8:1), “And Hashem remembered Noach and all the beasts...” which Rashi explains there: “That they did not cohabit in the ark.” And so with the זכירה of Lot (19:29), he did not tell [the Egyptians] that Sarah was Avraham’s sister.

ויזכור אלוקים את רחל, G-d attribute of Justiceremembered Rachel. Blessed the righteous who posses the power to turn the attribute of Justice into the attribute of Mercy. (Based on B’reshit Rabbah 72,3 which adds that whenever the expression אלוקים is used in the Torah it refers to G-d’s attribute of Justice)

And Elokim perceived (literally, “heard”). After she made the two efforts mentioned above, she then prayed to Him and He heard her prayers.

וישמע, now He heard all her prayers, i.e. the time had come for her prayers to be answered.

She was concerned lest she fall to Eisov’s lot... [The reward] is measure for measure. Since Rochel acted so that her sister would not be sent away in shame from her husband, it is not fitting that she should be barren and be sent away in shame from her husband. (Gur Aryeh)

This verse also informs us that G'd remembers His pious ones even before they cry out to Him. This is why the Torah first mentions the fact that G'd remembered Rachel.

This is what the poet alluded to: “When the Red One...” האדמון refers to Eisov. כבט means, “When he saw.” שלא חלה means, “That Rochel did not have birth pangs.” צבה means “he desired” to take her as wife, and she was petrified.