e, had her funeral been publicized, people attending would curse the womb that bore Esau."} 5f:T457,But is it not strange that Jacob’s mourning for his mother – who loved him so much and had secured for him the birthright – is subsumed under his mourning for his mother’s nurse? Was not Rebekah the Matriarch deserving of a separate burial monument in her own right? Is Rebekah not the great heroine of the life of Jacob, who makes certain that we are the children of Israel and not the children of Esau?

5e:{"position":3,"content":"$5f"} 60:{"position":4,"content":"I would suggest that Jacob may have had mixed feelings about his mother and the role she played in securing for him his father’s blessings. Jacob is hounded, even tortured, by having pretended to be the son that he was not and so deceiving his father. Was he not punished again and again, “measure for measure,” for this egregious sin, by Laban’s deceiving him in placing Leah instead of Rachel under the nuptial canopy, and later by his sons’ deceiving him about Joseph’s death and by Joseph’s deceiving him by dressing up as the grand vizier of Egypt?"} 61:{"position":5,"content":"Moreover, now that Jacob, after 22 years, has finally divested himself of the garb of Esau – external and materialistic trappings that had almost totally muted his inner spiri

Life's duality

‘And he named the place “Twin Camps” [Mahanayim]’ (Genesis 32: 3)