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The tragedy of the second half of chapter 30 is Jacob’s abandonment of family as his primary value (which I wrote about <\/span>here<\/span><\/a>) as he slips into a life of seeing others as means, which is Laban’s economic model of meaning. Jacob’s descent down this slippery slope begins from his very commitment to family, from his desire to provide for his own household, but his machinations get the better of him, and we find him at the beginning of chapter 31, 6 years (!) later, inviting his wives to come speak with him “at his office”. <\/span><\/p>\n

For 6 years, Jacob has lost sight of the purpose of his journey, he has forgotten his commitments, he has changed from a man who dreams of heaven, and angels, to a man who dreams of sheep and new money-making schemes. It’s a painful transformation to watch, and it’s one whose gradual phases we can, perhaps, even identify in the world around us, in people who have begun to confuse the means with the ends, who have somewhere along the way forgotten the journey they had initially set out on, forgotten the commitments they made at their journey’s beginning. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If we look to the chapter for an easy solution for this situation, unfortunately, I don’t think we’ll find it. Jacob resorts to subterfuge, trickery, and thievery, the very things that had brought him to Haran, to try to extricate himself, and it’s not enough. Ultimately, only Divine intervention allows for the return of the primacy of family- the chapter ends with brotherhood where you wouldn’t expect it, and with tender intimacy, just as Jacob’s story in Haran began. 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