River Needham M.A., queeries the Tanakh reading.
Laban said to Jacob, “Just because you are kin, should you serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?”
Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the older one was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
Leah had weak eyes; Rachel was shapely and beautiful. Jacob loved Rachel; so he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”
Laban said, “Better that I give her to you than that I should give her to an outsider. Stay with me.”
So Jacob served seven years for Rachel and they seemed to him but a few days because of his love for her. Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my time is fulfilled, that I may cohabit with her.”
Laban gathered all the people of the place and made a feast.
When evening came, he took his daughter Leah and brought her to him; and he cohabited with her.—
Laban had given his maidservant Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her maid.—
When morning came, there was Leah! So he said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? I was in your service for Rachel! Why did you deceive me?”
Laban said, “It is not the practice in our place to marry off the younger before the older.
Wait until the bridal week of this one is over and we will give you that one too, provided you serve me another seven years.”
Jacob did so; he waited out the bridal week of the one, and then he gave him his daughter Rachel as wife.
Queeries for the text:
Where is God?
Where is God?
What does a Jewish Wedding look like?
What is agency?
What cultural influences shape weddings today?
What tradition did this story create that continues to this day?
What are your queeries?
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