Summary by Channie Koplowitz Stein
When Yaakov Avinu leaves his father’s home while fleeing from his brother Esau, he initially runs past the area he remembers as being the holy place where his father and grandfather Avraham had prayed. Realizing his omission, Yaakov backtracks so that he can accord proper honor to this site. He then takes stones and puts the stone under his head and sleeps. He dreams of the ladder planted on earth reaching toward the heavens, with angels ascending and descending thereon. Waking up, he names the place Beit El, the House of God, the site where the future Temples would be built as the gateway for our prayers to reach Heaven. Then the Torah digresses from the narrative and enigmatically relates that the original name of this place was Luz. What is the significance of this detail, and what is the symbolism in the name Luz, asks Mesillos Haneviim.
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