Rachel has Joseph - Jacob negotiates with Laban

Torah study 7-21 Genesis 30:22-34

Rachel has a son...Joseph

Jacob leaves. Or tries to leave. Laban argues.

Wage of spotted goats and sheep.

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V 22 Rachel finally has a child. "God remembered ..."

RamBam - Issues of the anthropomorphic reference...
N. Sarna. Remembering by God is a focus and an action..
Eli Munk - womb opened. She was barren and God opened her womb. rachaels name does not include the letter hay... The letter is the sign of fertility.

Hay added to Abraham and Sarah before they had children.

Birth of Joseph. Name v24.. God taken away her shame. She has a child. Joseph - She immediately says ...Let God give her another son.

The next son will take her life.

Importance of Joseph. - He is different.

Benjamin with the tribe of Judah and survives forever.

Is there a connection between Dinah's birth and Rachel's giving birth...?

Leah knew there was to be 12 sons ... But she was pregnant ...this was the reason she had a daughter.

V25 plot turns around. Jacob wants to leave...

V26 give me my wives and my children...you know the avodah/labor he has given them.. Jacob is a servant and has served his term in servitude.

Reference to the laws of servitude.

Completed his responsibilities to Laban,

Formulaic phrase...send me forth and I will go."

Used in other places.

Another issue... Jacobs mothers parting words when he left home...she implies that she will send for him.... Hints that this may have happened.

Negotiations between Jacob and Laban

Laban has prospered because of Jacob...v28. Name your wages... He is ignoring the request to leave.

SRH. Laban hoped that Jacob would continue to work for free,

V29... Jacob reminds Laban that he has been of value...livestock prospered.

Rashi...through your blessing came to me(Laban)

Did Laban have sons? Mentioned in next verse ... Since Jacob came Laban had sons and more wealth.

How much? Livestock is payment...

The deal...

V32-36 going to walk through flock. You take out the speckled or spotted ones. Thus the abnormal ones...are his wages.
Laban thinks this is a good deal...

Remember Laban's propensity for trickery..next time.