Kabbalah Library
Zohar for All, Volume 3
And Jacob Went Out from Beer-Sheba – 3
41) “And Jacob went out from Beer-Sheba, and went toward Haran.” “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife.” This is so because Jacob went out from Beer-Sheba and left his father and his mother, and went to Haran to marry a woman.
Also, “And Jacob went out” implies that when Israel went out from the Temple and were exiled among the nations, it is written, “All her splendor has departed from the daughter of Zion,” and it is written, “Judah is gone into exile because of affliction.”
42) “And he came to a certain place and spent the night there.” “And he came to a certain place” is like a king who is walking to the queen’s house and needs to appease her and delight her with words, so she will not be regarded by him as dispensable. And even if he has a bed of gold and artfully embroidered pillows to sleep in, and she fixes him a bed of stones, on the ground, in a barn, he will leave his own and will sleep there, to please her, so their desire will be one, without coercion. When Jacob went to her, it is written, “And he took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place,” the Nukva, to please her—that even bricks were good for him to sleep in.
