'Happy to be obliged' is the essence of friendship.
The willingness to remain in the ever-repeating cycles of debt and repayment, the acceptance, as a condition of one's life, of gratitude to some particular person is the vehicle that fulfills a life and redeems it from its basis in barren, hollow existence.
The story of Yaaqov and Lavan is a story of debt and obligation finally frustrated and ultimately broken. After the friendship broke, the relationship was transformed into a formal treaty.
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