The Shmuz On The Parshah

But as for me, when I traveled from Padan, Rachel died on me in the land of Canaan on the road, while there was still some amount of land to go to Efras; and I buried her there on the road in Efras, which is Beis Lechem.

“These are the offspring of Yaakov: Yosef, at the age of 17 years, was a shepherd with his brothers by the flock, and he was a youth with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives; and Yosef would bring evil reports of them to their father.”

“And they related to him all the words of Yosef that he had spoken to them, and he saw the wagons that Yosef had sent to transport him; then the spirit of their father Yaakov was revived.”

– B’reishis 45: 27

“And Yaakov became very frightened, and it caused him much pain, and he split the nation that was with him, as well as the sheep, the cattle, and the camels, into two camps.”

The Bach, commenting on the Tur Shulchan Aruch, explains that the decrees of the Y’vanim against the Jewish People occurred because the Jewish People became “lax in their service.”

“And I will return in peace to my father’s house, and Hashem will be to me G-d.”

– B’reishis 28:21