Parsha:

Vayeitzei 

Collections: R' Brander 4 Minute Video Series

Description

In contrast to Avraham and Yitzchak, each of whom have a particular individual focus (Avraham personifying chessed and Yitzchak exemplifying gevurah), Yaakov, as the father of the twelve tribes, is the personification of tiferet, the result of the merging of various strengths together, symbolizing the power of healthy diversity in the patriarch who establishes the Jewish people. In gathering those stones, Yaakov learns the lesson that his mission is to recognize that each of his children, each of the tribes each of the stones, has its own strengths, beauty and color. And his task is to maintain those unique individual qualities even while fusing them together as a whole.