Comentários de Citação sobre Gênesis 29:25

והנה חלום. Just as Yaakov had faced a new reality in 29,25 when he woke up finding that Leah had been his mate in bed, so Pharaoh now faced a new reality, i.e. he found that what he had considered as reality, the images he saw while he had been asleep, had only been a dream.

What goes around comes around: Behold, after seven years of work with Laban's flock in order to marry his beloved Rachel, Jacob is given a different wife instead. So, similarly to Esau, Jacob feels compelled to cry out in front of Laban: I was in your service for Rachel; why did you deceive me? It was trickery for trickery! And not only that, Jacob even earned Laban's stinging observation: It is not the practice in our place to marry off the younger before the older (Genesis 29:27). When Laban said to him, "In our place it is not the practice," he was intentionally hinting that our place is different from what is done in your family and in your father's household. In other words, in the place you come from.

The Midrash goes deeper in recounting this event in the most dramatic way possible — when Jacob gets up in the morning, he berates Leah for the trickery she perpetrated against him that night: The whole night, he would call her Rachel, and she would answer; [but] in the morning, behold, it was Leah (Genesis 29:25). He said to her, "You are a trickster, the daughter of trickster." She said to him, "Is there a scribe who does not have students? Did your father accordingly not call you Esau? Yet you answered him. So too, you called me, and I answered you."