EXTRA · Side-ring · Parashas Vayeitzei · Passuk 31:45
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And Yaakov took a stone and set it up as a pillar.
Classical sources beyond the TT-numbered main ring: context of the covenant narrative and classical readings of the matzevah.
Lemma: וירימה מצבה.
English: Yaakov took a stone and raised it as a pillar — the pillar stands as a witness to the covenant.
Derash / classical peirush — not a formal named middah of the 13. The act of erecting the stone is the formal initiation of the covenant monument.
Yaakov’s raising of the single stone establishes the matzevah that will serve, together with the subsequent heap, as the permanent physical witness of the agreement.