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Original fileA man with a shepherd's staff gestures toward two women standing together in a landscape. In the foreground, a group of sheep crowd around a low, circular stone well to drink. The drawing uses light highlights on a dark background to create a sense of three-dimensional form and movement.
Jacob is a foundational patriarch in the Western esoteric tradition, particularly within Kabbalah, where his life and marriages are interpreted as mystical allegories for the union of divine attributes. The well frequently serves as a symbol for the source of hidden wisdom or the 'Well of Living Waters' in Neoplatonic and Hermetic thought.
Zohar
In Kabbalistic exegesis, Jacob's encounter with Rachel and Leah is analyzed as a mystery involving the two aspects of the Shekhinah (the revealed and the hidden worlds).
Object
Oil on panel
religious
Digital Source
Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
https://sammlungenonline.albertina.at/ "Raffaello Santi" (KÜNSTLER_IN) Graphische Sammlung (Sammlung)
850 × 735 px
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