“And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.”
Then Leah said: how happy I am! The women will call me happy. So she named him Asher. Asher means happy or blessed. The naming from happiness returns Leah to the emotion of genuine joy — a joy she calls out to be publicly recognized. The application: the desire to be publicly acknowledged as happy — the women will call me happy — is the desire of a woman whose happiness has been private grief. The public declaration of happiness is the turning of the grief outward.
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