Adapted by Channie Koplowitz Stein
Parshat Vayetze begins with Yaakov Avinu leaving Be’er Sheva and going to Charan, the town where his mother Rivka comes from and where her family still resides. The Medrash fills in that Yaakov went to Charan hoping to find a wife, just as his grandfather Avraham Avinu had sent his servant Eliezer to Charan to find Yitzchak, Yaakov’s father, a wife. Bereishit Rabba then attributes to Yaakov Avinu the verses of Tehillim 121, “I lift my eyes to hehorim/the mountains from whence shall come my help. Ezri/my help comes from Hashem, Creator of heaven and earth.” In pure Medrashic style, the Medrash then explains these verses more homiletically, and our Sages continue to expound on them.
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