Parshas Vayeitzei
The following three psukim (31:1-3) appear one after another in this
order:
(i) Yaakov heard Lavan's sons claiming that Yaakov had taken everything
that belonged to Lavan and that Yaakov's financial success was achieved on
their father's back,
(ii) Yaakov realized that Lavan's attitude toward him was not the same as
it had been in the past, and
(iii) HKBH tells Yaakov to return to Eretz Yisroel where He will be with
him. (See Sforno for an analysis of the order of these psukim.)
Rav Yaakov Weinberg ZT'L understood from these psukim that before a person
can 'hear' HKBH's word and merit the special relationship with HKBH
available to a Jew in Eretz Yisroel (the third pasuk), he must first
realize that his host's attitude toward him is not as cozy as he might
think it is (the first two psukim); we have to realize that we're in golus
and lacking Eretz Yisroel before HKBH makes it available to us.
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