This week’s Torah portion: “The parshah tells of Jacob’s travels to, life in, and return from Haran. The parshah recounts Jacob’s dream of a ladder to heaven, Jacob’s meeting of Rachel at the well, Jacob’s time working for Laban and living with Rachel and Leah, the birth of Jacob’s children, and the departure of Jacob’s family from Laban.”
* Gen. 30:2 Jacob’s response to Rachel legit? The offspring of the righteous is good deeds. Every man is barren.
* Rachel is insecure. If she can’t have kids, she wants to die. She has Jacob inseminate her maid so she can keep up in the baby race. Rachel has a low level of differentiation (the ability to hold on to yourself while staying in relationship to others, as elaborated in the book Passionate Marriage)
* Gen. 31:1: Jacob accused of getting rich at the expense of others.
* Why did Rachel steal her father’s idols? To wean her dad from idol worship (Rashi)?
* From Facebook.com/RabbiRabbs: No wife, no sex, no money, and now with no surfing until next summer, no motivation for staying alive.
I can’t fly solo on Shabbos anymore, and I’m beyond done with waking up alone even during the rest of the week.
