EXTRA · Side-ring · Parashas Vayeitzei · Passuk 31:27
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Why did you flee secretly and steal away from me, and not tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with lyre?
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English: “Why did you flee secretly” — Lavan claims that had he known, he would have sent Yaakov away with joy.
Derash / classical peirush — not a formal named middah of the 13. Lavan’s rhetorical self-presentation as a gracious host.
Lavan accuses Yaakov of secret flight and asserts that a proper farewell with music and celebration would have been given had he been informed.