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Both Yitzchak and Rivka commanded Yaakov to go to Charan and find a
wife. Why did Yaakov stop and learn in the yeshiva of Shem and Ever
and delay his parents’ command?
Yaakov knew what travails awaited him in the house of Lavan and
prepared himself accordingly. He needed the vigor of a fourteen-year
stretch of learning before he could live with Lavan’s conniving and
insidious personality.
Did Yaakov keep the mitzvah of kibbud av v’em when living so far from
home? Yaakov’s learning and desire to perform the mitzvot and keep the
