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Brothers and sisters eh? Can\u2019t live with \u2018em, can\u2019t live without \u2018em! And then add the complication and intensification of twins!<\/span><\/p>\n

Much is made of how Jacob and Esau are so very different, but that\u2019s probably a gross over-simplification. While they\u2019re together, the contrast between them is evident. But once apart\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

In this chapter, we see Jacob, the mummy\u2019s boy, going off on his own and before long, he\u2019s not only doing the he-man thing, rolling the stone off the mouth of the well all by himself, but he kisses Rachel virtually at first sight. How Esau can you get! And as if that wasn\u2019t Esau enough, he weeps on kissing her, utterly overwhelmed by love at first sight. This is Esau-style, hedonistically in the moment, moved beyond reason.<\/span><\/p>\n

And then unfolds the well-known story of Laban\u2019s duplicity \u2013 and of course Jacob getting his comeuppance. Jacob can\u2019t complain about being tricked at his (first) wedding, and he doesn\u2019t. He knows that he took advantage of his father\u2019s inability to see in order to get what wasn\u2019t his, so that Laban obscures Jacob\u2019s vision to give him what he doesn\u2019t want is beautifully poetic justice.<\/span><\/p>\n

And then the sisters\u2026 I\u2019ve always disliked the practice, when we bless our daughters on Friday evening \u2013 I hope you do, it\u2019s a beautiful practice! \u2013 we say \u2018May you be like Sara, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah\u2019. Not me! I reverse those two and say, \u2018Leah and Rachel\u2019. Leah\u2019s never loved as she should be, nor is she given the due she deserves as elder sister. And, of course, being a Levi too, she\u2019s my great-great-great-\u2026 grandmother . She had a tough deal in her lifetime, we don\u2019t have to compound it by our mealy-mouthed blessings. \u00a0I\u2019m not demoting her for anyone.<\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s sisterly jealousy too then, with Rachel wishing she could produce children as Leah does, while no doubt Leah wishes she could procure love and admiration as her sister does.<\/span><\/p>\n

So this is a chapter about everyone failing to value their own qualities while also failing to notice that they probably embody those of other family members too. We are all amalgams of our families, echoes of our siblings, continuations of our parents, vanguards for our children.<\/span><\/p>\n

How lovely that the chapter ends with Leah at last seeming to find a kind of peace (no thanks to Jacob!). 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