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Yaakov Avinu met Rochel at the well and fell in love.

The following is a rough translation of a paragraph written by R’ Aron Kotler ztz”l. It is part of an essay bemoaning the juvenile and uneducated way people understand chumash:

Another example of a parsha in the Torah which people in the street understand in a distorted fashion is the story of Yakov and Rochel … if we evaluate this story by mixing in even a hint of personal desires, we have offended greatly towards Yakov, whose image is engraved on the Kisei HaKovod … furthermore, there is no basis at all to such an understanding … thus such an explanation is certainly a perversion, and indeed blasphemous.