The Torah says only that Jacob left Beersheba and went toward Haran (Genesis 28:10). The Targum Pseudo-Jonathan refuses to let the sentence stay that quiet. It unpacks the day into five miracles that reshaped time, space, and stone around the fleeing patriarch.
Miracle one: the hours of the day shortened. The sun set early so that God's Memra — His Word — could speak with Jacob that very night. Heaven bent the sky to make a meeting.
Miracle two: Jacob set four stones beneath his head for a pillow. In the morning they had fused into one. Four tribes, one Israel. The stones argued, the Holy One answered — and by dawn the argument was over.
Miracle three: at the well of Haran, the stone that normally required all the shepherds gathered to roll it away, Jacob rolled with a single arm. The covenant strengthens the arm of the one who carries it.
Miracle four: the well itself rose. Water climbed to the edge of the stone and kept climbing for all the years Jacob lived in Haran. The well knew whose hand had touched it.
Miracle five: kefitzat ha-derekh, the folding of the road. The country shortened before him. What should have been weeks of walking was finished in a single day.
The Targum is telling us: when a patriarch leaves home in obedience, creation itself leans forward to help him. The sun dims early. The stones cooperate. The wells rise. The roads fold. Jacob walked, and the world walked with him.
The takeaway: obedience does not merely earn future reward. It reshapes the path under your feet in the present.