Parshah Vayetzei

G-d in the ordinary place

'G-d was in this place, and I did not know.' Sometimes holiness is not somewhere else, it is here, unnoticed.

Yaakov stops for the night on the road. He is running from his brother, alone, with a stone for a pillow. And there, in the least prepared moment, he dreams of a ladder connecting heaven and earth.

We tend to expect revelation in prepared spaces, retreats, sanctuaries, mountaintops. Yaakov teaches that the road is also holy. The transit, the in between, the unglamorous night.

This week, treat one ordinary place, the car, the kitchen, the walk, as a potential ladder. Notice what you might have missed.

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