[Avodah] Boys Being Taught How to Cook

[Saul Guberman]

Ben wrote:

> Right but only with Jacob's sons do we actually see the Avot shepherding.
> With Avraham it is explicit that he had employees doing the work. So yes,
> technically they may called themselves shepherds, but tachlis Avraham was
> home and others did the shepherding.
>

Why not assume that he also did sheperding until some point in his life?

Ben wrote:

> And frankly I think that we are really being romantic about the job of
> shepherding. From Yaacov's description of his job in Breishit 31:40 it
> doesn't sound like a job which is conducive to philosophizing. And from what
> I saw when I lived in Niger, not much has changed.


Not romantic.  I hear it is one of the more boring occupations.  According
to a note in RAK's Living Torah, the p'sukim of Breishit 30:37-30:41, Yaacov
is engaged in the deepest of SOD.  It is significant that so many of the
leaders of Klal Yisroel were sheperds.

Saul
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