[Avodah] Vayeitze "Watch Whom You Marry"

[Richard Wolpoe]

On Nov 10, 2007 7:57 PM, Richard Wolberg <cantorwolberg at cox.net> wrote:

>  In this Torah portion Jacob is deceived into marrying Leah instead of his
> intended, Rachel. We all know the story. Interestingly, in Kabbalistic
> literature every bride is said to have a component of Leah and Rachel.
> Rachel represents the beautiful, lively, charming and appealing part of our
> spouse — whereas Leah represents the not so attractive part. She is
> characterized as weak-eyed and not very desirable. Initially we marry Rachel
> and perhaps after a while we see the Leah component. This does not mean the
> marriage is over. It merely means we must employ maturity in dealing with
> it. As the female spouse has those two components, the male spouse also may
> have the two components to Yosef Hatzadik and any one of his brothers. We
> all contain opposing forces which is part of the dissonance of life.
>
> Incidentally, the gematria for Rachel is 238 — the same as *vay'hi or*"Let there be light." It's almost ironic that the reason Jacob was deceived
> with Leah was because there was no light. On the other hand, the gematria
> for Leah is 36 which is double chai (somewhat paradoxical in this case) and
> also the same gematria for Eicha. Jacob certainly didn't chant Eicha, but he
> probably asked "HOW?" could this have happened. Nevertheless, he accepted
> his lot and dealt with it.
>

We have a Principle that HKBH does not let a Tzaddik get hurt inadvedantly
in an aveirah.  E.G. people asked how could RMF have drunk NYC water when it
containe bugs?  The answer given was theat HKBH would have protected RMF
from accidently ingesting bugs when he drank th NYC water.  Sort of a
"shomer Pesa'im Hashem" except that for tzaddikim.

Question: How did HKBH let Y'aaov Avinu have relations with Le'ah that night
when his Kesubbah said Rachel - which meant his bi'ah was assur.

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