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(Are you looking for our Twebrew School Treats about the Hebrew alphabet or our Hebrew Instructional videos? Click here for a directory!) Click here to hear Lay'ah pronounced On the morning after Jacob was to marry Rachel, he woke up only to find that his new bride was the wrong woman--actually Rachel’s older sister, Leah. “‘Deceiver, daughter of a deceiver!’ he said to Leah...She said to him, ‘Is there a teacher without disciples? Did your father not address you as Esau, and did you not respond?’” (Genesis Rabbah 70:19). ( Click here for Rabbi Buchwald's insights into Jacob's deception.) Leah was a woman of great strength who was singularly focused on achieving what she knew in her heart to be her destiny. Like the other Matriarchs, Leah is credited with being both modest and beautiful. And while it is noted in Genesis (29:17) that she had “weak” eyes, the Midrash explains that this was a condition brought on by her tears. Leah’s father Laban, and his sister Rebecca, ha...

(Are you looking for our Twebrew School Treats about the Hebrew alphabet or our Hebrew Instructional videos? Click here for a directory!) Click here to hear Lay'ah pronounced On the morning after Jacob was to marry Rachel, he woke up only to find that his new bride was the wrong woman--actually Rachel’s older sister, Leah. “‘Deceiver, daughter of a deceiver!’ he said to Leah...She said to him, ‘Is there a teacher without disciples? Did your father not address you as Esau, and did you not respond?’” (Genesis Rabbah 70:19). ( Click here for Rabbi Buchwald's insights into Jacob's deception.) Leah was a woman of great strength who was singularly focused on achieving what she knew in her heart to be her destiny. Like the other Matriarchs, Leah is credited with being both modest and beautiful. And while it is noted in Genesis (29:17) that she had “weak” eyes, the Midrash explains that this was a condition brought on by her tears. Leah’s father Laban, and his sister Rebecca, ha...