The United States is known universally as the “land of opportunity.” Indeed the story of someone who starts with nothing and reaches the highest echelons of society is perhaps the quintessential and enduring American legend. In Parashat Toledot our Matriarch Rebekah provides a spiritual analogue for the rags-to-riches story: וַיְהִי יִצְחָק בֶּן אַרְבָּעִים שָׁנָה בְּקַחְתּוֹ אֶת רִבְקָה בַּת בְּתוּאֵל הָאֲרַמִּי מִפַּדַּן אֲרָם אֲחוֹת לָבָן הָאֲרַמִּי לוֹ לְאִשָּׁה׃ (בראשית