In this meditation, we look at Yaakov’s night levad, alone, the night before he meets Esav and consider what he learned from that night of wrestling with himself and God, how he came into some greater awareness of his own separateness and completeness through a “face to face” connection with God. We consider our own tendency to look outward and the value of turning inward to remember our divinely granted intrinsic value and wholeness, and how that nourishing alone time or hitbodedut can strengthen us and our relationships.
