[Avodah] Mesorah?

[Zev Sero]

On 13/12/2010 4:36 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 02:49:20PM -0500, Yitzchok Zirkind wrote:
> : See Rashi D"H Vlo Yachla Breishis 36:7.
>
> Nu, so Yaaqov expected the galus.
>
> What about Rashi on the title word of parashas VaYeishev, that Yaaqov
> was hoping to be done with all the nisyonos in his life? Did Yaaqov
> think the galus would start after his petirah?

Why not?  We know that he knew the ultimate Ketz, but what else did he
know?  Perhaps he thought the 400-year galus wouldn't start until 5371!
Alternatively, *we* know that the 400-year galus had already started
sixty years before Yaacov's birth; perhaps he knew this too, or at least
guessed that it might be so, and hoped that he had hit an easy patch
within it (as he eventually did, for the last 17 years of his life).


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