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The last time he left home he was heading to his uncle Laban where he was repeatedly <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tricked,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> harassed, and cheated. Now he is leaving again journeying south to Egypt, a place lacking the fear of God. What will happen to his family, to his people, to their special mission in this Godless place?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">God appears to Jacob: Don\u2019t worry, the nation will become great, I myself will venture into exile with you, and bring you back. But this seems to only relieve part of Jacob\u2019s anxiety. How will his long-lost son respond to him? God therefore adds a few more words (v. 4): \u201c<em>veYosef yashit yado al eynecha<\/em>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The exact meaning of the word \u201c<em>yashit<\/em>\u201d is unclear. Will Joseph\u2019s hand cover Jacob\u2019s eyes, or will they close his eyes? <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">God is turning from the communal to the personal; Joseph will be there for you Jacob, but what will he be doing?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Remarkably, God uses the image of hands and eyes. \u00a0Hands and eyes played a dramatic role in Jacob\u2019s life until then. \u00a0At perhaps his lowest moral moment, Jacob tricked his father, one whose eyes were \u201cclosed\u201d by covering his own hands with hair to feel like the hands of Esau. These body parts reappear when Jacob himself is blind to Laban\u2019s trick of replacing Rachel with Leah, a trick which according to the Midrash, was aided by Rachel sharing secret hand signals with her sister.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With these words is God telling Jacob that he will once again be a victim? With his eyes covered will Jacob be unable to see and warn his descendants about the horrors that will befall them during the bitter exile? Is this a \u00a0final recompense for hiding his identity from his father? Or is God telling Jacob that all is forgiven? He has suffered enough for his mistakes, The image is intended to comfort. 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