📖 “And Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran.” Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto, shlit’a, asks the question most readers skip: after fourteen years in the yeshiva of Shem and Eber, when the danger had passed, why did Jacob go to Laban the Aramean instead of home?
Jacob took the blessings, and Esau wanted to kill him. So Jacob fled to the study hall of Shem and Eber and sat there for fourteen years, sanctifying himself in Torah. Then Rebecca sent Deborah, her nursemaid, to tell him: Esau’s hatred has subsided, you can return. Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto, shlit’a, lays out what every commentator notices: Jacob does not return. He goes to Haran, to the house of the wicked Laban, to find a match.
Why? He could have stayed in his father Isaac’s house and sent a matchmaker, as Abraham sent Eliezer. Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto, shlit’a, answers through the Haggadah: Laban was worse than Pharaoh — and yet Jacob says “I lived with Laban and I kept the six hundred and thirteen commandments.” Jacob is the chosen of the patriarchs precisely because he refused the comfortable path. Greatness is not built where it is safe; it is built where the test is.
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00:00 — So Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran.
00:23 — May G-d give you of the dew of heaven and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and wine.
00:48 — It is brought in the holy books that after fourteen years…
01:17 — What does our father Jacob do?
01:41 — After fourteen years, they tell him: “Esau’s hatred has subsided, you can return.”
02:16 — Why do you go and risk yourself, going abroad to the house of the wicked Laban…
02:37 — After fourteen years, your mother sends you her nursemaid, Deborah…
03:04 — I lived with Laban and the six hundred and thirteen commandments I kept.
03:29 — Why is he taking the risk?
03:55 — What is the lesson we should learn from how Jacob our forefather behaves?
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