2 Sheep, 2 Souls

This Shabbos, 9 Kislev is the birthday and hilulah of the Mittler Rebbe and this Shabbos, and therefore, it is fitting to cite some of his words.The possuk says (31:42) in the whole episode of the sheep that the one's born late went to Lavan and the one's born early went to Yaakov.  The Torah uses a strange terminology to describe early and late, עטופים וקשורים. What is the significance of this and why the interesting terminology used?  (See Rav Hirsch  that translates differently than Targum and Rashi because of the irregular language of the possuk.)  The Mittler Rebbe explains(berech derush v'chassidus) that the עטופים sheep, the later one's that went to Lavan refers to souls that are עטוף, they are wrapped with Torah and mitzvot, but it doesn't permeate to the essence of their neshama.  The earlier sheep are those that are נקוד, the good deeds that these neshamos go to their core and transform them into better people.  These are Yaakov sheep, this is a soul that has been transformed by his avodah.  This idea reflects a life-philosophy.  A lot of the works of the Mittler Rebbe put a focus on hissbononus, thinking about God and prayer so that one's service of Hashem isn't מן השפה ולחוץ, rather affects one's inner being.

Interesting fact- The Jacob is a British breed of domestic sheep. It combines two characteristics unusual in sheep: it is piebald—dark-coloured with areas of white wool—and it is often polycerate or multi-horned. It most commonly has four horns. The origin of the breed is not known; broken-coloured polycerate sheep were present in England by the middle of the seventeenth century, and were widespread a century later. A breed society was formed in 1969, and a flock book was published from 1972. (from Wikipedia.)