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The Many Meanings of Jacob’s Ladder
Ascents medieval and modern.
At the beginning of this week’s Torah reading, the patriarch Jacob departs from his father’s house to sojourn with his kinsmen in Aram—what is now Syria. The region he goes to is not the vicinity of Aleppo, but the land across the Euphrates, currently held by U.S.-backed Kurdish forces. On his way, he has his famous vision of the ladder “standing on the ground and with its top reaching to the heavens,” and of angels ascending and descending. Stuart Halpern catalogues some of the many readings of this symbolism-rich passage. For instance:
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The Many Meanings of Jacob’s Ladder
Ascents medieval and modern.