Stairway to Heaven or There is No Rock

Yaakov approached the well. He could see the shepherds gathered round unable to remove the large rock which was preventing them from enjoying the cool refreshing well water. "Where are you from," he asked them. "From Charan," they responded.
The well is a classic metaphor for the source of God's abundant, infinite kindness, symbolized by the water flowing from the well. The people of Charan had great difficulty accessing the source of God's kindness. They lacked the ability to attain it individually. Only with the efforts of all the shepherds could they manage to roll the stone off the mouth of the well, but even then it wouldn't last. As soon as they were done the stone rolled back on the mouth of the well. They were again cut off.
Why did they have such difficulty? They came from Charan חרן a word that in Hebrew shares the same letters as Charon, anger. They viewed the world, and God within it, from the perspective of din; they saw the constrictions and limitations which God had placed on His Chesed, His manifest goodness, and could not see the divine love and caring which underlined and informed the constriction they saw. Stuck in this small minded perspective, they could only break through the limitations with great and concerted efforts and touch God's blessing for a moment. Then it was gone.
But when Yaakov came he needed no help removing the rock from the well, and once he removed it we don't find that it rolled back on top. This is because Yaakov had seen the ladder of God. Indeed we do live in a world in which God's goodness is constricted, limited, and often hidden. But why is this? It is not that way in order to keep it from us;  it is that way in order to enable us to receive it. In the presence of God's infinite goodness there would be no place for us to exist, it is only by virtue of the fact that it is hidden that room was made for our existence. One can only understand this if he has a universal perspective; if he can see the whole plan laid out before him from God's infinite greatness down to this world - warts and all -  and all the steps in between. Then a person can understand that what looks like constriction and din is really an act of great love. Once that understanding is achieved then a person can find God in any and all places at all times. There is no rock. There is only a well.