# <![CDATA[The Fear of the Dark]]>

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

- **Published:** Mon, 01 Dec 2025 21:31:02 GMT
- **Duration:** 00:47:48
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<![CDATA[<p><strong>VAYISHLACH</strong></p><p><strong>The Fear of the Dark</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Why does Yaakov speak with a diminished sense of self and disparage his spiritual merits precisely at the most difficult moments of his life, when he needs immense kindness from Heaven?</p><p>Yaakov knew that this is how it works. One must go through a fall in order to leap upward, and that fall was about to happen now. Therefore he asks for mercy, that the temporary shrinking of stature pass without incident.</p>
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