ליטעראַטור פֿון בית שני אויף בראשית 30:36

[42] This is why he ascribed to Jacob, who was perfected as the result of discipline, the shepherd’s lore. For Jacob tends the sheep of Laban (Gen. 30:36), that is to say, of the soul of the foolish one which considers nothing good but sensible objects that meet the eye, and which is deceived and enslaved by colours and shadows; for the meaning of “Laban” is “whitening.”

[46] Surely when the Practiser submitted to “shepherd the sheep of Laban” (Gen. 30:36), of him, that is, whose thoughts are fixed on colours and shapes and lifeless bodies of every kind, he felt that it was a task most congenial to virtue. And note that he does not tend all the sheep, “but those that were left” (ibid.). What does this mean? Unreasonableness is of two kinds. One is the unreasonableness that defies convincing reason, as when men call the foolish man unreasonable. The other is the state from which reason is eliminated, as with the unreasoning animals.