[Avodah] Yaakov kissing Rachel

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, November 29, 2006 11:47 am, Rich, Joel wrote:
: 	When Yaakov first meets Rachel the first thing he does is kiss
: her and then he cries. What is the significance of this kiss? How was
: Yaakov allowed to do that?

Please ignore my previous answer, which conflated this kiss with Yitzvhaq's
love at first sight of Rivqah. I obviously need more sleep.

Thanks to RZSero for asking, and thanks to him again for sending it in a
format that gave me an excuse to reject his post (10 lines of quote for 1 line
of comment).

Tir'u baTov!
-mi

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