Parshat Va-Yetzei
This week Shabbat Mom wonders: What would Jewish peoplehood look like today if the patriarchs had used a Biblical version of J-Swipe? Their courtships were so complicated! “Jacob loved Rachel...the daughter of his uncle Laban” and agrees, “‘I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.’”
Laban dupes Jacob into marrying his elder daughter Leah instead, she of the “weak eyes ", a Biblical diss implying she was not a looker. Laban engineers a switcheroo at