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his week's sedrah be-
gins with the scene of
a wanderer, Jacob,
fleeing his home to
escape the wrath of his
brother, Esau. On the road to
his uncle's home in Haran,
Jacob had reason to be fear-
ful. Behind him, his brother
Esau might be closing in,
eager to kill him for the theft
of his birthright. Ahead was
a strange land and unknown
circumstances. He was un-
sure of whether God's pro-
vidence extended to the land
where he would travel.
Jacob took a stone to use as
a pillow and went to sleep.
That night he had a
remarkable dream of angels
ascending and descending on
a ladder rising to heaven. God
appears in his dream and
reassures him that the land
upon which he is now resting
will be given to him and his
descendants and that all the
families of the world would
see his descendants as a
source of blessing.
Jacob went to sleep think-
ing he was in a place of ter-
ror and awoke the next mor-
ning knowing that he stood in
a place of awe. He said: "Sure-
ly the Lord is in this place,
and I did not know it."
At some point in every
human life we find ourselves,
like Jacob, living through a
crisis — of danger and doubt.
We take a short walk into a
hospital's intensive care unit
to see a loved one in danger;
each step in fear, hoping as we
walk, and not knowing what
to expect. Others have
themselves been in that
"place of terror" lying in a
hospital bed wondering, as
did Jacob, if they would
survive.
There are other life crises,
less ominous but no less
significant, when we feel
frightened and alone. I think
of the man or woman whose
marriage had ended in
divorce; the businessman
whose enterprise has failed;
the mourner who has lost a
dear one; the person in the
"middle years" who yearns to
begin a new career; the young
family that moves to a new
community in search of the
fulfillment of career goals.
The dream of Jacob's ladder

Irwin Groner is senior rabbi of

Congregation Shaarey Zeclek.

can be a symbol for today: the
sign of God's presence.
How do we interpret this
symbol? The ladder might be
seen first as the potential of
prayer. Just as angels were
ascending and descending the
ladder, so can man join
heaven to earth with the
words of prayer. There are
people who can only pray in
the brightness of a sunlit day.
They can feel appreciation,
but theirs is not the
assurance that remains when
all is gone. An Austrian
playwright once noted: "We
know of some very religious
people who came to doubt
God when a great misfortune
befell them, but we have
never yet seen anyone who
lost his faith because an
undeserved fortune fell to his
lot."

Shabbat Vayetze:
Genesis 28:10-32:3
Hosea 12:13-14:10

To pray like Jacob means to
pray in the dark without be-
ing discouraged and embit-
tered: to pray because we are
saddened but not broken,
burdened but not crushed. We
can draw out of the depth
powers untapped and
sometimes even unknown, for
we are stronger than we
think. We can mobilize our
deepest reserves rather than
surrender to the weakness of
self-pity. The nature of Jacob's
prayer is best described in
modern terms by the com-
ments of Dr. Abraham Joshua
Heschel: "God is the center
toward which all forces tend.
He is the Source, and we are
the flowing of His force, the
ebb and flow of His tides .. .
In crisis, in moments of
despair, a word of prayer is
like a strap we take hold of
when tottering in a rushing
streetcar which seems to be
turning over."
Perhaps, the ladder is a call
to man to discover the
courage which will enable
him to move higher and lift
himself out of the depth of his
despair. It is as though God
called from heaven and said:
"Climb, Jacob, climb." Jacob
argues "I'm tired. I just left
my parents. My brother is
clearly an enemy and if I
should walk the wrong road

