Yaakov stopped on his journey away from home at Hamakom, “the place.” In this meditation, we intrepret hamakom to mean where he was at that moment, the emotional space he was in, a fearful, lonely space. We imitate Yaakov’s instinct to rest in the place that he was in — in its hard rocks — and through such resting, begin to perceive for ourselves the ladder that connects us above, to the ultimate “Hamakom,” another name for God, “The Place” of the universe.
