{"id":3096,"date":"2019-01-02T01:22:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T01:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=3096"},"modified":"2019-01-02T01:22:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T01:22:57","slug":"vayeitze-5779","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=3096","title":{"rendered":"VaYeitze (5779)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Drash Cards for VaYeitze 5779<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by Marc Mangel<\/p>\n<p>Open a classical hagaddah and you will read \u201cCome and learn what Laban the Syrian tried to do to our father Jacob. While Pharaoh decreed only against the males, Laban desired to uproot all\u201d. The Hebrew is<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1-to-add-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-3095\" src=\"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1-to-add-copy-300x46.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"633\" height=\"97\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1-to-add-copy-300x46.jpg 300w, https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1-to-add-copy-768x117.jpg 768w, https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1-to-add-copy.jpg 1001w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 633px) 100vw, 633px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I think that we can gain a better understanding of this from what we read today, particularly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ch 31, v20.\u00a0 Let\u2019s first look at it in English<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Rebbe\u2019s chumash: \u201cJacob duped Laba the Aramean by not telling him that he was fleeing\u201d, with no interpolated Rashi.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Koren chumash: \u201cAn Yaakov outwitted Lavan the Aramean\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; JPS: \u201cJacob kept Laban the Aramean in the dark\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Art Scroll:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Kaplan:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Hirsch:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Now in Hebrew [read Ch 31, v 20]<\/li>\n<li>The literal translation is \u201cJacob stole the heart of Lavan the Aramean\u2026\u201d<\/li>\n<li>According to Nachshoni\u2019s <em>Studies in the Weekly Parashah <\/em>\u201cThe commentators are astonished\u201d. He quotes S\u2019forno, Akeiha, Or Chayim, Alshech, Abarbanel, the Ralbag, and Chatam Sofer \u2013 none of whom can agree on what this means.\u00a0 Nehama Leibowitz is silent on this verse.<\/li>\n<li>In JPS commentary, Sarna has a footnote \u201cThe Hebrew contains a double word play. Lev echoes Lavan while \u2018arami evokes the stem resh-mem-hey, meaning to cheat. Laban the heartless cheat has been beaten at his own game!\u201d<\/li>\n<li>R Shlomo Crandall, Modern Orthodox writes \u201cLaban did not intend to kill them physically but rather to erase them through love \u2013 through assimilation \u2013 by drawing them so close that their uniqueness would disappear\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Exactly how is Jacob stealing Lavan\u2019s heart?<\/li>\n<li>\u2022In verse 28, Lavan says \u201cYou did not even let me kiss my grandsons and daugthers\u201d. In verse 43 we read \u201cThe daughters are my daughters, the children are my (grand)children\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>\u2022In verse 30 he asks \u201cWhy did you steal my gods?\u201d\u00a0 In the Rebbe\u2019s chumash the interpolation in verse 19 leads us to read \u201cRachel stole the idols that belonged to her father (hoping in this way to wean him from idolatry).\u00a0 Laban even plays the card that he and Jacob share the same grandfather, to which Jacob responds \u201cmaybe so, but I received the tradition from Yitzchak, my father\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Everything in the Torah teaches us to dislike Lavan, but here we can also sympathize with him: Lavan realizes that he will likely never see his daughters or grandchildren again. Furthermore, he realizes that his daughters have given up his religion and that his grandchildren will never know about it (which is what happens). Jacob is indeed stealing Lavan\u2019s heart.<\/li>\n<li>To return to the Hagadah: had Jacob not stolen Lavan\u2019s heart, then the tradition he received from Isaac would likely not have been passed on and he and his family would have been absorbed into Lavan\u2019s culture. In short, none of us would be here.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drash Cards for VaYeitze 5779 by Marc Mangel Open a classical hagaddah and you will read \u201cCome and learn what Laban the Syrian tried to do to our father Jacob. While Pharaoh decreed only against the males, Laban desired to uproot all\u201d. 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