CONNECTION BETWEEN FIRST FRUITS AND YAACOV AND LAVAN
דברים פרק כו, ה אֲרַמִׁי אֹבֵד אָבִׁי
Many commentators on the Torah and on the Hagadah comment on this connection between the offering of the first fruits and the special saying that begins with Yaacov and Lavan. Yet none seem to explain clearly.
Perhaps, a little bit of understanding begins with the concept that Hashem just promised the Jews the Land of Israel, This gift is to occur against the natural order of the world, that a nation that has escaped servitude and wandered for 40 years, should now depose the many strong nations that occupy the land, and then the Jews would live in peace and tranquility afterwards. This example begins from the era of Yaacov and all the travails of his life, symbolized from his conflict with Lavan. Yaacov left his father’s house and moved to Lavan’s house and faced many types of conflict there. And even after returning to Israel, he was constantly on the move and then the entire nation ending up moving to Egypt. Nevertheless, his children now stood on the brink of reentering the land of Israel - overturning of the natural order of the world.
