# <![CDATA[The Beauty of Imperfection]]>

From **Online Torah Classes with Rabbi Mendy Goldberg** by R Mendy Goldberg.

- **Published:** Mon, 24 Nov 2025 23:06:58 GMT
- **Duration:** 00:59:16
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<![CDATA[<p><strong>VAYEITZEI</strong></p><p><strong>The Beauty of Imperfection</strong></p><p><br></p><p>The turbulent marriage story of Yaakov with Rachel and Leah, and the Torah testifies that Hashem looked into the depths of Leah’s heart and saw that she felt hated.</p><p>Hashem’s compassion was aroused for her, and her womb was opened to give birth to the main children of Yaakov.</p><p>Although Leah wasn’t actually ‘hated’, the Torah emphasizes twice that Yaakov loved “also Rachel more than Leah,” she wasn’t the favorite. And that’s the whole issue.</p><p>A human being cannot bear being second best. A person strives for excellence and cannot appreciate half-love. To be number two is to be zero. Therefore Leah, who was number two to Yaakov’s love for Rachel, felt “hated.”</p>
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