In order to live there. In order to live with the Easterners. The silent stone symbolizes the dream, but reality is dynamic, fluid, mutable. The stone makes life burdensome. Its heft bends the back.
Life bubbles beneath, striving to burst forth.
Now the stone on the mouth of the well was large, so when all the herds were gathered there, they used to roll the stone from the mouth of the well, give the sheep to drink, and put the stone back on the mouth of the well in its place. We cannot drink of the water before we roll away the stone. Yaakov saw Rahel . Yaakov's 'seeing' is the hope which imbues the rock with life, which gives the rock its 'rollability'. Movement leading to meeting.