Tag Archives: Vayetze

Behold, I Am With You


He dreamed: All of a sudden, there was a stairway set up on the earth and its top reaching to the heavens—and behold, angels of God going up and down on it!(Genesis 28:12) That night, Jacob slept on the ground and used a stone for a pillow. On that night […]

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Departing


“Jacob departed from Beer-sheba and went toward Haran.” (Genesis 28:10) Fleeing to Haran did not seem like progress to Jacob. Jacob’s flight from Canaan to Haran seemed like two steps backward in the plan of the Holy One. On the contrary, the Holy One would use Jacob’s years in exile […]

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