At Parasha WaJeze (Part 1)…

At the moment I am busy with the Parasha WaJeze. The first sentence fascinates me – Yaakov left Beersheba and went to Charan. In the evening he has to set up camp and, after taking a stone from there to rest his head on and lying down, he has the famous dream. While Yaakov moves from Beersheba to Charan, Avraham moves with Lot from Ur to Charan. Both have the same goal, although their motivation is different.
Back to Ya’akov’s dream… The ladder is placed on the earth and touches the sky. Messengers rise from her and descend from her. Messengers (Malach) are angelic beings. See also Hosea 12:5. Let us not forget that they do this easily and gracefully, without any effort; while a climb requires overcoming gravity. If you refer to Genesis 32, 25ff., then we are talking about a man & G-d. While one movement stands for an ascent from the earth, it is not important how many steps the messenger has already covered, how high the Jew has already reached, but that he has already reached the previous ones and thus the foundation of the form the ladder in front of him. When a man climbs a ladder, this is a movement from earth to heaven, which means nothing other than that the man sanctifies the profane. While the opposite direction from heaven to earth represents bringing heaven to earth. This is the job of the messengers.