What is the connection between Dina’s outgoing nature, and her ability to transform the likes of Esav and the Chivvite women, to the outgoing nature of her mother, which was for the sole purpose of increasing the tribes?
On the contrary, whereas Dina apparently had a charismatic and outgoing personality, with a desire to bring people who were distant from G-d closer, Leah’s personality was clearly not so.
The Torah tells us of the contrast between Leah and her sister Rochel:
Text 6
Leah's eyes were tender, but Rochel had beautiful features and a beautiful complexion.
Bereishis 29:17
Rashi explains the description of Leah having tender eyes as follows:
Text 7
Because she expected to fall into Esav’s lot, and she wept. For everyone was saying, “Rivka has two sons, and Lavan has two daughters. The older [daughter] for the older [son], and the younger [daughter] for the younger [son].”
Rashi, Ibid
Leah did not want to marry Esav and convert him into a G-dly person. She was content with marrying a tzadik the likes of Yaakov.
Based on Talmud, Bava Basra 123a.
We see then, that although Dina possessed the desire to transform those around her to a life of holiness, her mother, in contrast, did not.
What then is the comparison between Dina and her mother Leah?
