Because Jacob sought to get his life validated from having a physically beautiful wife, he gave his heart to a woman toward whose immaturity and shortcomings he was blind. Leah’s counterfeit god was not sex. She obviously had access to her husband’s body, but not to his love and commitment. She wanted him to be “attached” to her, to have his soul cleave to her. But he did not. Her life became bound in shallows and miseries.
