Parashat Vayetse en Inglés(5784).

Torah: Bereshit 28:1032:3 Haftarah: Hosea12:1314:10 Brit Hadashah: John 1:19-51. Parashat Vayetse. Makom (Str#4725) location: Bereshit 22:4; 32:1-2; Shemot 23:20; 33:21 The term "Makom" is a synonym for "HaKadosh Baruch Hu" due to the interpretation of the passage Shemot 33:21. It is important to note that in Hebrew, we do not find the word together but it says: a place in me. There is a traditional Hebrew phrase used to comfort those who have lost a loved one: "HaMakom yenajem etjem betoj shaar avaley Tziyon ViYerushalayim," which means "May the Eternal comfort you among the afflicted of Tsion and Jerusalem." We can see that the ladder that Jacob saw in his dream represents the Messiah. Through him, we have access to the Father, and through him, our prayers reach heaven, in John 16:25-28. Jacob calls the place Beth-El, which means House of God. He promises to give a tithe (maazer) he has set as a steel in the House of Elohim. The sages believe that the place where all this happened is none other than Mount Moriah, where HaKadosh Baruch Hu asked Avraham to sacrifice his son and where the Beit Hamikdash was built. The Temple is a representation of the redemptive work of the Messiah and his body, as stated in John 2:13-22. In Bereshit 28:18- Early the next morning, Jacob took the stone he had put under his head. He set it up as a marker and poured olive oil on top of it. He anointed Mashiach! Jacob, the father of the Twelve Tribes, left Israel and Beer Sheva to escape his brother Esau. His father instructed him to find a wife. Beer Sheva was a representation of peace, security, prayer, and Torah study. However, Jacob had to leave it to face the world of temptations (Olam: whose root is helem, concealment - where Elohim is hidden-) and overcome them to become the father of the house of Israel. Elohim wants the children of Israel to live a spiritual life in an earthly world. Before going to Haran, Jacob studied for fourteen years in the Yeshiva of Eber. He dedicated himself to studying the culture and language of the place where he went. He mainly focused on praying, which shows that before forming a Jewish home, the priority is not to lose one's identity. When arriving in a new society, it is not enough to imitate the customs of others to integrate. Before reaching Haran, Jacob stopped at Mount Moriah, where Avraham built the altar for Isaac's sacrifice and where the Bet HaMikdash (Temple) was later built. In Mount Morya, he had the famous dream of the ladder and received the promise from Elohim that the land would belong to his descendants, who would be as numerous as the sands of the seas. In Jacob's dream, the ladder rested on the earth but reached heaven, and there were malachim going up and down.