Finding Lavan in All the Wrong Places Vayishlach – 5780 Rabbi Shaanan Gelman (With Rabbi Ariel Rackovsky) This has been a difficult week for klal Yisrael. Three more Jews have been added to the ever-growing list of martyrs, this time in a kosher supermarket in Jersey City. When we heard about the murders of Leah Mindel Ferencz, the owner, as well as Moshe Deutsch, Chava Gold, along with Miguel Douglas Rodriguez, and Officer Joseph Seales, many of us hoped that it was a random attack, one not targeting Jews specifically. We hoped, in vain, that this was somehow different than the Hyper Kasher supermarket in Paris or the Tree of Life Synagogue. We hoped but we were wrong. Where do we go from here? What is the response of the Jew who discovers that he is constantly under attack? We have one such example at the very beginning of the week’s Parsha. In preparation for his fateful reunion with his twin brother Esav, Yaakov sends messengers...