2. What was Lovon's wife's name?
3. Why did Layah name her daughter 'Dinah'?
4. What happened in this Parsha that brought about the death of Rochel?
5. What is Reuven's stone in the Kohen Gadol's breastplate?
Answers
1. Hashem appeared to Lovon as a Malach with a drawn sword (Targum Yonason (31:24).
2. Lovon's wife's name was Adina (Sefer HaYashar).
3. Knowing there would be twelve boys, Layah made a judgement ('din' in Hebrew) that if the child she was pregnant with was a boy, her sister Rochel will not even have as many boys as one of the maidservants. She prayed that this boy should be a girl and Hashem changed the unborn baby to a girl (Rashi 30:21). The name 'Dina' represents this judgement.
4. When Lovon accused Yaakov of stealing his idols, Yaakov denied it and said that if he found them with anyone in his group, that person would die. Rochel died from this curse (Rashi 31:32).
5. Reuven's stone is the ruby which shares a similar etymology with his name, Reuven (Rabbeinu Bechaye, Shmos 28:15).