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Jacob and the Well
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There before his eyes was a well in the open. Three flocks of sheep were lying there beside it, for the flocks were watered from that well. The stone on the mouth of the well was large. When all the flocks were gathered there, the stone would be rolled from the mouth of the well and the sheep watered; then the stone would be put back in its place on the mouth of the well. Jacob said to them, “My friends, where are you from?” And they said, “We are from Haran.” He said to them, “Do you know Laban the son of Nahor?” And they said, “Yes, we do.”…
Genesis 29:2-10
“Jacob lifted his feet, and went to the land of the people of the east” (Genesis 29:1).
“Jacob lifted his feet” – Rabbi Aḥa said: “A healing heart is the life of the flesh [
besarim
]” (Proverbs 14:30) – when one is the recipient of good tidings [
shenitbaser besorot
], his heart bears his feet. That is what is said: The stomach bears the feet.
“He saw, and behold, a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks of sheep lying there alongside it, since from that well they watered the flocks and the great stone was on the mouth of the well” (Genesis 29:2)…
Bereshit Rabbah 70:8
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