Parashat Vayetze – Longing

This week's Torah reading relates the stories of Yaakov and his family. At one point, when he run away from the house of Lavan, his father in law, Lavan pursued Yaakov and complained: why did you steal my gods? The analysis of this question in the original Hebrew sheds some light into spiritual exile. Based on Hitvaaduiot 5746,, vol. 1, p. 664.