EXTRA · Side-ring · Parashas Vayeitzei · Passuk 30:39
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English: Rashi records the rabbinic explanation of how the rods were connected with the marked offspring.
Derash / classical peirush — not a formal named middah of the 13. Visual influence and possible miracle explained as the cause of the patterned births.
The rods functioned as a visual stimulus (and, according to one midrashic view, more than that) that directed the appearance of the new generation of the flock.