After Yaakov wrestles with the angel, injuring his hip, the next morning the Torah says, vayizrach lo hashemesh, “the sun shone for him” (Genesis 32:32). The midrash explains that the sun came out to heal him after his injury. In this meditation, we explore what it would feel like to imagine that the sun was shining for us in particular, to heal us, connecting it to the rabbinic notion that each person should feel that the world was created just for them. We try out these conceptions in our hearts and our bodies, sensing the care and the light and the healing and a deep sense of our own mattering and value.
Sources:
Genesis 32:32
Rashi on Genesis 32:32
Bereishit Rabbah 78:5
Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:5
Brachot 58a
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