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What Does Leah Mean in the Bible Read through 2 lenses
In the morning, behold, it was Leah! He said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Didn’t I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?”
What does Leah mean in the Bible?
Leah: the lesser thing received against one's wish, the substitute the mind tolerates without mistaking it for what it loves
Christian Psychology lens · Genesis 29:30
Where Leah appears in the Bible
Genesis 33:2
He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
Leah through 2 lenses
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Christian Psychology · Genesis 29:25
Christian Psychology
Morning here is the harsh awakening to what fear has substituted for what was longed for. A mind that labored for one thing wakes to find another in its place, and its first move is to accuse, to throw the whole betrayal outward onto the one who tricked it.
Yet the deception it rages against is the ego's own confusion of what is real with what is counterfeit, seen in a mirror. The accusation feels justified, but the correction is not to punish the deceiver. It is to learn to tell the loved thing from its imitation, so the mind is no longer fooled by what fear dresses up in the morning light.
- Leah: the substitute the mind wakes to find, what fear offers in the place of what was truly desired
- Laban: the deceiving self within, the ego that trades the counterfeit for the real and leaves the mind feeling wronged
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Esoteric · Genesis 33:2
Esoteric
The ordering from front to back is the ranking of a person's inner states from the outermost and least valued to the innermost and most protected. The handmaids and their offspring thoughts stand foremost, the most exposed; Leah, the weary and mistaken spirit, comes next; and Rachel with Joseph is set hindmost, guarded deepest of all. Rachel is the child of promise, the divine inner wife, and Joseph is the Christ within, the awakened self a person shields behind everything else.
What is placed last is what is treasured most. The innermost states, the promise and the anointed self, are kept furthest from harm while the carnal thoughts are put first to meet whatever comes.
- Leah: the weary spirit, the mistaken and deceived state set in the middle
- Rachel: the divine inner wife, the child of promise held deepest within
- Joseph: the Christ within, the awakened self guarded behind all other states
- Children: the offspring thoughts of the carnal mind and its emotions
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What Leah means in each story
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- PsychoanalysisRachel and Leah agree together: For the first time, the sisters speak with one voice. The divided anima reunites.Genesis 31:1-21
- PsychoanalysisLeah and Rachel: 'he has devoured our money': The sisters recognise Laban consumed their bride price. The anima becomes aware of being exploited by the father.Genesis 31:1-21
- PsychoanalysisLeah buried there, not Rachel: Leah, not Rachel, lies with Jacob. In death, the overlooked feminine is honoured.Genesis 49:29-33
- EsotericLeah (buried in the cave): the left side of the mind, your emotional physical nature.Genesis 49:29-33
- PsychoanalysisLeah's 'weak eyes', Rachel's beauty: Leah is overlooked; Rachel is desired. Two aspects of the anima: one hidden and fertile, one beautiful and longed for.Genesis 29:14-30
- PsychoanalysisLeah substituted in the dark: Jacob, who deceived his blind father, is deceived in the dark. Jung: what we do to others returns; the shadow comes back.Genesis 29:14-30
Commentaries on Leah
Hitchcock's Bible Names (1869) · Leah
weary; tired
Fillmore, Metaphysical Bible Dictionary (1931) · Leah
weary; exhausted; faint; sluggish
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