Vayetzei

The Alef Kabbala Group (29 November 2011) studied the first half of an 'unedited' discourse for Sedra Vayetzei said in 1987. This interprets the verse near the end of the Parsha, 'And Laban got up early and kissed his sons and daughters' (Gen.32:1) as providing a teaching for each individual in our spiritual relationship with the Divine. When we 'get up early' and pray the morning prayers we access an infinite level of Divine 'brightness', relating to Laban's name which means 'white' and is called by the Kabbalists 'the upper brightness'.