Torah Pearls #7 – Vayeitzei (Genesis 28:10-32:3)

jc never existed.

Don’t do gymnastic with regard with what Jacob’s did with the animals , it is a chemic reaction to the animals when they eat that. For me this is a simple Genetic experimentation, Simple as that , Remember the blessing of Yehovah is acknowledge and wisdom of this laws that govern this reality.

Doctor, may I ask, have you done any research on these trees???

So, if Aramaic is a corruption of Hebrew, and for Gentiles, why did Jesus speak Aramaic? Or did He?

I had been thinking about this recently, about when rachael gives her handmade to jacob to obtain children by her, and the same with sarai and hagar, and theres a verse that came to me:

Exo 21: v4. If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.

Do you think its possible that this is the legal means by which rachael obtains children?

Oh, and about the mandrakes, if its of a sexual nature like that, and reuben knows how to find them, maybe that could be connected to reuben going up to his fathers bed?

Concerning the streaked sticks, I like Jonah, have always assumed this, (as well as the mandrakes) concerned the medicinal properties in the wood to increase health and maybe the fertility and verility of the flocks, Laban filtered out all the specked before delivering them to Jacob as a deception. Jacob enriched the water for all the flock initially, but then separated the flocks as they reproduced and then only enriched the water of the ringstraked and spotted. He cared for all of them but only gave the Ovaltine to the speckled/etc to ramp up their health and wellbeing (supercharged).. so the solid were weaker, less likely to bring forth young (the term slow swimmers comes to mind).. eventually the best part of the Flock would be spotted. its not that he treated Laban’s badly, he just treated his own better…

I wonder concerning instead of a Dateline where something is wrong or right, perhaps it is more of a wisdom line, where we should not only learn from our experience but also the experience of others, using discernment and wisdom… Perhaps if we could do that it would not be as necessary to make a commandment.. like the warning labels on McDonalds coffee “caution this is hot!” if we used discernment and wisdom the label would not be necessary. but because we don’t think, wisdom is downgraded to knowledge that we must learn from reading labels. My train of thought is that this is what Adam and Challah did in the garden .. was to exchange wisdom for knowledge..

I understand paying daily especially during that time, a great many peoplelive day to day, if you wait a week to pay one who needs to buy daily bread, they may well become sick or starve and not return and you got free labor at the expense of a human.

It is my first time to know that Aramaic is from Ur. Then Aramaic is the language of hometown of Abraham? Then Abraham speak Herews in Ur?
God made Isreal to speak Aramic to gentiles. Then will the situation be turned back that the gentile speak herews to Isreal?

Rachel, Leah, Raquel, Sarah, etc., came from a nation of Idolterers. The only reason Isaac told Jacob to get wives from his father’s house in Paran-Aram is that he knew the women we’re very submissive there. Like the Muslum women in todays society. Remember all their wives fathers even Sarah’s father had several Gods. The law of one wife came from our God, because God Told this to Moses in the marriage Contract to Marriages. The only exception of another wife was if a woman could not have a child. David and Solomon were major sinners. David got punished for it and so did Solomon. In their case, because they were Kings the whole Nation of Israel suffered reprocutions. Eve was Adam’s only wife even after their fall from Eden.

Your Churches won’t let you, since they dont want to believe that the Jewish sons of God are God’s children anymore. According to God in the Bible, He Sais, “my son Isaac is my firstborn.” Then He Said, I love Israel and Hate Esav, my lawless son. This is why the churches are in ignorant of so many things. Some Jews have it wrong also, but in this matter of not letting their people be part of God’s Holy Contract is a Gentile belief. You would have to convert and or become a Messianic Jew.

Ann, originally the Contract was only with Rachel even after Jacob layed with Leah. Leah would be only a concubine. However, Jacob accepted the second marriage contract because Jacob got swindled by his father-in-law Laban and decided to work for Rachel twice. Whether the Contract is a lie and not fair is irevelant, it is still a Contract agreed by both parties. Ignorance doesn’t preclude you from a Contract. That is why there are so many Sheister Lawyers inside our Government and Country, because they can get away with murder.

Finally a sense comment, Yehovah blessing was , is and will be acknowledged, since the first book first story was teaching us how nature works . All patriarch blessing was acknowledge , Abraham Isaac Yackov , Joseph, Moses , David, Salomon, Daniel and the other tree were blessed with acknowledge of how nature works, ( Science) . Science is the acknowledge of how nature works , that reject any religion , usually the lack of Understanding of Nature is what people call Gods ,

When we completely remove all the religious thoughts our mind will understand the civilized way of Torah instructions.

Isn’t God declaring that wherever He is, with those He is enter-acting, that is a holy place?

The NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible is helpful for understanding Genesis 34.

My view is there was never a marriage contract between leah and Jacob or their slave girls. the contract was with Rachel only. Rachel is the rightful wife, they was as good as married when Jacob and laban struck the 7 year deal. That is why leah says to Rachel later you took my husband, she is referring to their traditions. concubines.

talking about joining himself to the God of Israel. how can he do that while following the Roman Empires religion(christianty)?

they r wrong about not having more then 1 wive. a man can marry sisters. look at david or soloman and how many wives they may have had. the man would have to be wealthy.

all great comments.

Dr. your comments are indeed some thing to think about. thank u.

great Pearls….I think the entire Powerful take Away for me: if you get it dishonestly, you wont keep it. Yehovah will see to that. Very comforting.

thanks for the Insight.

Here’s my quandary. Jacob was 130 years old when he went to Egypt and Joseph was 39. This makes Jacob 91 when Joseph was born, at the end of the second period of seven years. Jacob was then 84 when he married Rachel and Leah, which explains why he may have needed the mandrakes. I’m confused though? Reuben could not have been more than four or five years old yet he is out in the field gathering mandrakes? How can he do that when he is so young?

very interesting

Quite interesting. Thanks for sharing as I tire of the inference of some kind of magic in this instance.

Regarding Genesis 30:37-43, it is not as superstitious as it seems. Jacob uses knowledge of aspirin in the willow bark (Salix caprea) to counteract Laban’s cheating. Aspirin is a curative for many diseases and a fertility enhancer. Coccidiosis is a disease most common in lambs aged four to eight weeks old and it is not common in animals over three months old. A 2004 thesis by Eileen McWilliam entitled “The Effect of Poplar (Populus spp.) and Willow (Salix spp.) Supplementation on the Reproductive Performance of Ewes Grazing Low Quality Drought Pasture During Mating” by the Institute of Veterinary, Animal and Biomedical Sciences in Palmerston North, New Zealand showed “poplar supplementation increasing ewe reproductive rate by approximately 20%”. The same study states: “One of the unexpected results of the experiments was an average 34% reduction in post-natal lamb mortality over three years, due to willow/poplar supplementation of ewes during mating”. Impressive numbers, 20% more births with 34% less mortality would have given Jacob a huge advantage. Jacob would have also used his knowledge of selective breeding to visibly and obviously mark which were his.

The prophet pearls was so powerful especially the part YHVH will heal , depending on ones intention and I thought this was what YHVH did when he changed Jacob’s name to Israel . The most important part is when he buried all the pagan idols and ear rings under the oak tree and that is when YHVH heals Jacob

When Joseph becomes ruler in Egypt, he is 30. When he brings his father to Egypt there are still 5 years of famine making him 39 (30+7+2). Jacob tells Pharaoh he is 130 making Jacob about 91 years older than Joseph. Joseph was born at the end of the 14 years of servitude to Laban for the two sisters. This means Jacob was around 77 years old when he stole Esau’s blessing, ran to Haran and met Rachel at the well. Did teenage maiden Rachel really want to marry such an old man? Incidentally, Jacob still outlived both sisters.

Do we really think Jacob was a virgin at 77? He is the son of a wealthy man with hundreds of servants(slaves). We know he didn’t have a wife back in Canaan, but might he have had concubines and thus children by those concubines?

Laban was an adult when Rachel left to go be Isaac’s wife and Jacob was not born for at least another 20 years. Laban had to be at least 120 (or more) when Jacob showed up and began the 20 years of work. I love the thought of 97 year old Jacob running across the land, with a 3 day head start, trying to stay ahead of 140 year old Laban bearing down on him. Do you think they walked with canes at their advanced age?

The trip back to Canaan took a while so Jacob was nearing 100 at this point. He then wrestles down in the sand with God, and prevails! at almost 100 years old?

There is an indication of why both Abraham and Isaac sent their sons back to Haran for wives from their own family. They were breeding. Abraham was called a mighty prince. Why? Not just because of his wealth (that’s the prince part) but because he was truly a mighty person. How could Abram with only 318 men of his own house (Abram lived in tents so this phrase probably means these men of his house were his direct descendants, via concubines) take on and defeat four kings with their armies? Yes, YHVH was with him but also Abram and his sons were big, strong, mighty men.

Jacob was not only long lived but also very big and strong. He showed up at the watering well and they told him they couldn’t move the stone off the well until everyone gathered together (it took lots of men working together to move the stone) yet 77 year old Jacob performs this great feat of strength and does it by himself. Why didn’t Rebecca want her sons to marry Hittites? Because they were small, weak, short-lived people who would produce more of the same. Isaac and Rebecca wanted their sons to breed with big, strong, long-lived people and have children like themselves and the only place to find such women was in their own family back in Haran. It was a breeding program, and herdsmen like Abraham and Isaac understood about breeding.

Correction, Abraham did not send his son to Haran to get a wife, he sent to Haran for a wife for his son. A wife was the mother of an heir while a concubine was not. Isaac surely was not a virgin at 40 years old when Abraham sent home for a wife. Isaac must have had concubines by then.

As concerning the happening of Jacob getting Leah first. A couple of plausable explanations were put forth concerning marrying sisters etc. One comes to mind that was left out, yet the concept concerns the a critical redemptive thread, and that being the kinsman redeemer. Most folks I’ve encountered being spiritually minded, will except somewhat flippantly, the concept of “the soulmate” or that Yahovah is or should be directly envolved with choosing our prospective mates and if so,,,, the rather unknown legalities concerning this thing of soulmates and the resultant kinsman redeeming legalities, just may make a glaring appearance here in Jacobs life and as Brother Gordon (yes, I also believe that Nehemiah is a child of Almighty Father) points out, some things are just plain and open to those who have eyes to see. Again, applicable here? Consider this brothers; Jacobs elder brother married outside the parameters of Torah which is actually from everlasting, to the heartbreak of his parents. So if we hold that God has a mate for him somewhere, she is now left out in the lurch and if God Almighty will follow up with her, He will have to make some kind of “plan B” for her. Enter Jacob!!! The trickery of substituting the gals was, behind the scenes, God raising up children to Jacobs elder brother (now “dead” as far as Almighty God is concerned) according to the Torah law of the Kinsman Redeemer. Leah is actually Esaus’s true mate and Revkah is Jacob’s true mate. Still,,, things got messed up and convoluted through ignorance of what God was doing but Yahovah was and is working righteousness behind the scenes if we only have eyes to see! I believe that the law of kinsman redeemer is what was going on here and yet the particulars down through the ages of time seem far past finding out! These things will clear up a lot of issues we “wonder” about, such as; could Ruth the so called Moabite actually be a Hebrew decendent because of the prophets evil council to King Balek? These things are wonderous to consider, are they not? For most sadly, they will not ever stir a slight register. Blessing to all, me

I’m leaving a comment because you askwd us to…..
So i would have to say that without a doubt in my 35 odd years of following YHVH , your teaching is next to none for history, context and language!!!!!!
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I love how the pause button is so efficient in working so that I can veer off in a search of meaty matters to sink my teeth into and most of all, i love that at the end of the day that you don’t draw conclusions….unless the text says to…..you just present the information and let us draw our own conclusions.
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Vayeitzei
Nehemia–Today I was listening to Torah Pearls, recorded last year. You were talking about Jacob’s treatment of his animals in Genesis 30:37-42. I have some thoughts on that. I am a traditional physician, but believe that our healing is supposed to come from every herb yielding seed and every tree which has fruit yielding seed. (Gen 1:29) and not from drug companies. I also believe that the Torah is wisdom, and therefore contains truths for healing that have been suppressed.
Based on the passage, it appears that there are several healing properties in those branches. Peeling white stripes in them would release compounds that gave the animals the desire and ability to mate. So it would release an aphrodisiac, not only giving the desire but also the ability. It would strengthen joints, as the animals have to have strong legs and backs in order to mate. It would increase the ability to reproduce, most likely affecting hormone levels. It would also improve the mood of the animals. In humans, this would manifest as an aphrodisiac, an antidepressant, fertility agent, healing of arthritic joints (not just covering up the pain). There are probably other benefits you could name as well. Deer are known to strip the bark on trees, not just in the winter when there is nothing else to eat. So there is something there that they are seeking in their diet.
Do you know what modern-day plants are represented in this passage—the poplar, almond and plane trees—as listed in the NASB. I would like to research them.
Sandra Young MD
Nov 29, 2014

Very good perspective!

Shalom haverim!

I want to share a Torah pearl. 🙂
Lea 3 times give names to her sons because YHVH saw HER, heard HER, HER husband will get close to HER, i. e. she is focused and preoccupied with herself, but somehow she realizes that is better to PRAISE YHVH so she names her 4th son, Yehuda. She is suddenly preoccupied with and focused on YHVH.
So she is kinda an examle for us that there is better point to praise YHVH, than to be focused on our self.
P.s. If it’s obvious to you why did she do that, please share 😀

YHVH IMMAHEM!!!

Sorry for the typo…obviously “worship” was intended.

Thank you so much for the wonderful insights into the Inspired Word.
It seemed like we rushed over v31:53 where ‘wordhip’ can be translated ‘fear’. Is this common usage or a special instance. Many people stumble over the command to fear Him, but if it is correct to understand this to mean worship Him…then it’s very clear.