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His words would seem to have no prescriptive value, both because they speak of the distant future, and because they are, like a good horoscope, so vague that the listener can always retroactively impose the interpretation that best suits them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">There are two explicit prescriptions which Jacob charges to his sons, and they are important enough that they are each repeated twice. At the end of his days, Jacob&#8217;s great challenge is to leave his sons with two things they must do: gather, and listen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">The fact that Jacob gathers all twelve sons together to bless them, quite in contrast to his own experience, is already a powerful message. Whatever he will say to each son, each one is present, blessed, chosen. This is the moment when Jacob overcomes the zero-sum game of chosenness and rejection that has characterized all of Genesis, and the moment that Bnei Yisrael, the Children of Israel, as an entity can be born.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">But gathering (<em>he&#8217;asfu<\/em>) alone can&#8217;t accomplish that. In order to come together (<em>hikavtzu<\/em>), the brothers also need to listen carefully to Jacob, and to hear that each brother has his unique place and role. The only way to overcome the destructive competition to be &#8220;the chosen one&#8221; is to articulate a vision in which there are many ways to be chosen. But even this is not enough, because even diversity can be constructed within easy, comfortable parameters. 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