Refuah Before Suffering: Hints in the Torah
Torah Wellsprings | November 25, 2025
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Refuah Before Suffering: Hints in the Torah

Torah Wellsprings | December 07, 2025

Rebbe Leibele Eiger teaches that the final letters of (28:10) ֶךְוַיֵּל עַשָׁב רֵמ ִבְּא ביַעֲקֹ (וַיֵּצֵא), "Yaakov left Be'er Sheva and went..." is gematria 292, the same as רפואה. The final word of the pasuk is ָנָהחָר, "to Charan." חרנה or חרון represents anger (אף חרון), as this is written in Rashi and the Midrash. The Torah hints at "refuah" before the חרון, the anger and punishment. This means that when Yaakov left Be'er Sheva en route to Charan, he understood that the "refuah" would come before the "Charan", the suffering.

Rebbe Leibele Eiger teaches that the final letters of (28:10) ֶךְוַיֵּל עַשָׁב רֵמ ִבְּא ביַעֲקֹ (וַיֵּצֵא), "Yaakov left Be'er Sheva and went..." is gematria 292, the same as רפואה. The final word of the pasuk is ָנָהחָר, "to Charan." חרנה or חרון represents anger (אף חרון), as this is written in Rashi and the Midrash. The Torah hints at "refuah" before the חרון, the anger and punishment. This means that when Yaakov left Be'er Sheva en route to Charan, he understood that the "refuah" would come before the "Charan", the suffering.

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