Chasidut for Genesis 29:30

Genesis 29,30. “he also had marital relations with ‎Rachel, and he loved her, even more than he loved Leah.” ‎It has been understood that the principal reason that Yaakov ‎stayed at Lavan’s house had been on account of Rachel. It was for ‎Rachel, after all, that he had agreed to serve Lavan for seven ‎years, originally. Leah would never have become Yaakov’s wife ‎had it not been for his abiding desire to marry Rachel. He had ‎loved Rachel for herself all the time, whereas his love for Leah was ‎a byproduct of his love for Rachel who had been instrumental in ‎his having the ‎זכות‎, good fortune, to also have a pious woman ‎such as Leah for his wife. This explains why the Torah speaks here ‎of Yaakov “also loving Rachel.” It could obviously not mean that ‎Rachel ranked second in Yaakov’s love, but means that Yaakov ‎had an additional reason for loving Rachel, this being that ‎through her he had merited to become Leah’s husband also.‎