Parshat VaYishlach: The Hidden Dinah, Yissachar the Donkey, and Rabbi Akiva's Redemption
December 11, 202436m 18s
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Show Notes
Dinah, the box, the donkey and Rabbi Akiva .... The story is from the Torah portiona of Vayishlach and questions the midrash where Jacob hides Dinah his daughter in a box, then later on when Rachel requests the mandrakes from leah, leah goes out to meet Yaakov. Dinah is compared to leah, but how? Dinah conceives Yissachar who is compared to a donkey and becomes the scholar of Benai Yisrael. Both shechem and the donkey relate to Rabbi Akiva who at the end is a tikkun for all