EXTRA · Side-ring · Parashas Vayeitzei · Passuk 30:36
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And he put a three days’ journey between himself and Yaakov, and Yaakov was pasturing the rest of Lavan’s flock.
Classical sources beyond the TT-numbered main ring: narrative setting of the separation of the flocks.
Lemma: דרך שלשת ימים.
English: “And he put a three days’ journey between himself and Yaakov” — Lavan distanced the preferred flocks in order to make Yaakov’s task more difficult.
Derash / classical peirush — not a formal named middah of the 13. Narrative detail showing Lavan’s continuing attempt to disadvantage Yaakov.
Lavan’s placement of a three-day barrier between the flocks was an effort to frustrate the terms that had just been set.