Vayetze: economics
Vayetze: economics
The etymologic dictionaries on the web say that economics comes from the Greek words for house (ecos) and laws( nomos). My false etymology has the word coming form e ( exit, leaving, vayetze) and co ( together) , leaving the area of support and cooperation. Economics deals with situations of competition and the struggle for gain, leaving the comfort zone.
Yaakov leaves his home. Home has become uncomfortable after the murderous declartion of Esau, reacting to Yaakov's seizing the blessing of the first born. Yaakov launches, he goes out on his own. He is going back to Haran, the place that Abraham left.
On the way he has a dream that tells him he will inherit the sacred land that he is leaving. He immediately makes a deal: 10% for the Provider of all Even with Gd, business is business, No free lunch.
Jacob comes to the watering hole. Jacob remarks on the way the shepherds are doing their jobs, implying that they are featherbedding. The locals counter that they are a collective, they have a system for using the well, perhaps an assurance of fairness. But when Jacob sees Rachel, he ignores that tradition and uncovers the well. Is this anti communist Objectivism?
Jacob has nothing to offer Lavan but his labor, and with that he buys his bride. The replacement of Rachel with Leah echos Jacob's deception of Isaac. The point is brought home when Laban said: 'It is not so done in our place, to give the younger before the first-born.
What do you do when you are cheated? Make the best of it.
After his 14 year internship, Laban wants to contract his animal husbandry business to Jacob Lavan provides the capital, Jacob invests it. Through some strange biology, Jacob is enriched by the deal.
Jacob skips the exit interview and leaves for his Promised Land. Lavan gives chase. Then there is the argument between labor and capital. Jacob describes his sacrifice, the ever changing interpretations of his contract and claims possession of the goods. Lavan argues that it is all his because he supplied the capital. In Lavan's view, Jacob remained a sharecropper. Through the intervention of a dream, Jacob wins
Is this the origin of the economic Jew: Communist, banker, entrepreneur.Building fortunes from nothing and then losing everything when they are forced out of the country?
You can't take it with you. But that only applies to the money.
Jacob comes to the watering hole. Jacob remarks on the way the shepherds are doing their jobs, implying that they are featherbedding. The locals counter that they are a collective, they have a system for using the well, perhaps an assurance of fairness. But when Jacob sees Rachel, he ignores that tradition and uncovers the well. Is this anti communist Objectivism?
Jacob has nothing to offer Lavan but his labor, and with that he buys his bride. The replacement of Rachel with Leah echos Jacob's deception of Isaac. The point is brought home when Laban said: 'It is not so done in our place, to give the younger before the first-born.
What do you do when you are cheated? Make the best of it.
After his 14 year internship, Laban wants to contract his animal husbandry business to Jacob Lavan provides the capital, Jacob invests it. Through some strange biology, Jacob is enriched by the deal.
Jacob skips the exit interview and leaves for his Promised Land. Lavan gives chase. Then there is the argument between labor and capital. Jacob describes his sacrifice, the ever changing interpretations of his contract and claims possession of the goods. Lavan argues that it is all his because he supplied the capital. In Lavan's view, Jacob remained a sharecropper. Through the intervention of a dream, Jacob wins
Is this the origin of the economic Jew: Communist, banker, entrepreneur.Building fortunes from nothing and then losing everything when they are forced out of the country?
You can't take it with you. But that only applies to the money.
posted by Sheldon Goldberg at 11:14 PM
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