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Beautiful painting port …

By June 7, 2019 No Comments

Beautiful painting portraying Jacob’s Ladder by Artist Yoram Raanan.
In this weeks Parasha “Vayeitzei”, Jacob is fleeing from his brother Eisav because he wants to kill him for getting his blessing from his father Isaac. “And he arrived at a place and lodged there because the sun had set, and he later down in that place… And behold a ladder set up on the ground and its top reached to heaven; and behold,Angels of G-d were ascending and descending upon it”. ( Genesis 28:11-12)
This is the first dream recorded in the Bible. The Midrash describes that the Angels that where going up where the Angels that accompanied him in the land of Israel and the ones that where coming down where the Angels that where going to accompany him on his journey out of the Land of Israel.
Chassidut gives us another interpretation. Every time we make a mitzvah (good deed) we create an Angel, which protects us in this world. The Angels that where ascending were Jacobs Angels created by his Mitzvahs reaching up to heaven, the Angels descending are the ones that are bringing down to Earth the blessings bestowed to him from heaven..
The ladder also represents our service to G-d, in which it should be by taking steps upward, and H”S infinite love for us which descends on us.

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