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Rachel has to feel devastated that her older sister is now married to this man. leah, you have to wonder how she felt knowing that she was being snuck in. she wasn't his chosen love, and yet she was sent in to him and he feels very deceived. so he goes in anger of the girl's father and says, what have you done? laban, unapologetic, proposed a new deal to jacob. the deal is now you can marry rachel, but you can have to work another seven years for her. jacob accepted these terms in order to marry the real rachel. i think at that point, everybody's in a really bad place because. leah. no, she's ...

But then to be seeing the woman that you share your husband with your own sister, very fertile, having child after child after child that had to just throw enormous salt in the wound for rachel. rachel said to leah, please give me some of your son to manage. right. but leah said to her, wasn't it enough that you took away my husband? will you take away my son's mandrax to the mandrake plant was thought to increase fertility, but it wasn't until years after rachel got her hands on it that her prayers were answered. and she was blessed with a son named joseph. eventually, she is blessed with chi...

And became exceedingly wealthy, and he had prolific animals, and maidservants and manservants, and camels and donkeys. –Genesis 30:43 I count myself

What kept Jacob going during those long and difficult years, when he was alone, far from his parents’ home, being swindled and threatened time after time by his father-in-law?

From the blog of Naomi Graetz at The Times of Israel