The Parsha this Shabbos is Parashas Vayishlach . This Parsha starts with a ' Vav ' as ' Va, ' which means ' And , ' showing , as so many Parshas in the Holy Torah do , that each Parsha continues from the preceding Parsha , For The Holy Torah Continues Eternally From Creation To The End of Days And Beyond , Eternally . The Haftorah for this Sedra is to be found in Obadiah 1 : 1 - 21 and the Prophet Obadiah Is Blessed By HaShem To Be Given Prophecies Of the future of Edom , which most certainly relates to the Parsha , for the Parsha also speaks of Eisav Edom . Obadiah himself was originally from Edom and this holy prophet became a very righteous proselyte to Judaism and a very holy man . Those who Come To HaShem , Are HaShem's Special Jewels And Treasures . May the whole World Come To HaShem and shine and sparkle , bringing Creation back To HaShem's Beautiful Light . The Shabbos Sedra starts with Yaakov returning home and preparing to face Eisav his brother . Yaakov sends Malachim - Angels to Eisav his brother with a message to tell Eisav that Yaakov had stayed with Lavan , a swindler and an evil man filled with Tum'a Impurity and that Yaakov had overcome Lavan . This was therefore to be a hint to Eisav that he , Yaakov , could overcome Eisav . The gifts Yaakov was sending to Eisav was a show of Peace . So very Holy was Yaakov That HaShem Had Given Yaakov power to command Malachim - Angels . The Malachim returned to Yaakov to tell him that Eisav was headed to meet Yaakov with four hundred men , thus suggesting that Eisav was not intending peace . Some of our holy Rabbonim suggest that Eisav did intend a peaceful meeting with Yaakov . Yaakov prepared in three different ways to meet this possible threat , which was by Tefillah Prayer , Appeasement of the enemy and failing appeasement , Yaakov prepared for War . Yaakov leading in front , separated the droves , putting Bilhah and Zilpah and their children of theirs in front , walking behind him , then Leah and her children next and Rachel , shielded by the holy Spirituality of Yosef last . Each of them carried under their cloak a sword . Yaakov separated each drove , so should Eisav smite one drove Chas Ve Shalom , the others could escape . They reached the ford of the Jabbok and Yaakov had his family go over and then his animals and his possessions . When he returned back over the Jabbok to get the rest of his things ( our Rabbis tell us that he had returned for some of the jugs ) , a man was there with flocks . The man asked Yaakov to help him with his things and that the man would also help Yaakov , even though there were just a few jugs left for Yaakov , but kind Yaakov offered to help and took some of the man's things across . When Yaakov came back to help the man with the rest , those things that Yaakov had already carried over , had returned . And so , Yaakov carried on through the night carrying the man's things , just to have some of them return and more appear . Yaakov asked the man if he was a magician or an evil spirit and a fight broke out . The man attacked Yaakov and they fought till dawn , with dust rising from Earth to Heaven . Yaakov being extremely strong , over-powered and beat the man , but Yaakov himself was injured on his hip-socket , for this Angel in the guise of a man just simply touched Yaakov on this area of his hip socket and this caused a complete dislocation of Yaakov's hip bone socket from the pelvis joint , and so today , we remove this part when eating basar , this part being called the Gid Hanashe . This is indicative of our history , that through time , the nations try to harm us , but we will always survive , though we will be hurt and injured and suffer through the generations . The man was an Angel . The Angel Samael , who was the Angel of Eisav and the Angel of Amalek , the Angel who tempted Chava in Gan Eiden . Yaakov prevailed , as will we , at The End of Days . When dawn broke , it became one of the Time - Watches that Malachim Angels sing Shira - Songs To HaShem and it became this Angel's time and first opportunity to sing Shira and so , the Angel asked Yaakov to let him go . Yaakov said he would only let him go if the Angel Blessed him , thus an acknowledgement of the Blessing given by Yaakov's Father Yitzchak to Yaakov over his brother Eisav . The Angel did so and so was Yaakov then called Yisrael . The Angel , obviously unable to get back up in time , started to sing Shira from the Earth . Yaakov called the Place " Peniel . " HaShem Caused the " Sun To Rise " as it says , which means That HaShem Sent a Special Light From the Beginning of Creation To Help Heal Yaakov . Yaakov and his family continued on their way and so , met up with Eisav and his four hundred men . Yaakov hid his daughter Dinah , which our Rabbis say was wrong as she , being so holy , might have had an effect on Eisav and so , was one of the reasons for what happened to her in this Parsha with Shechem . Yaakov bowed seven times to the ground , in actuality bowing not directly to his brother , But To HaShem's Shechinah and allowed himself to call his brother master and " adoni , " and because of this , HaShem Who Did Not Want us to humble ourselves to Edom , made sure that Eisav would have that many rulers in number to the amount of times Yaakov called his brother by that title before Israel as a nation had a king . The Midrash describes how Eisav tried to keep overcoming his brother , but the meeting between the two ended up peacefully . Yaakov said that he would meet Eisav at a later date at Seir and our Rabbonim take this as a future prophecy . Seir belongs to Eisav . There are other Rabbinical opinions that say that Eisav was actually very friendly and nice to his brother Yaakov at this meeting . The two separated . Yaakov arrived in Shechem and bought a parcel of land and set up an altar there . Yaakov had not tithed To HaShem yet as he had said he would and so is this one of the reasons for his trials and his record constantly being brought up To HaShem for scrutiny . So the next trial came upon the family . The Parsha says that Dinah , " the daughter of Leah " went out to look at a market festival of the Shechemites . We note how Dinah is mentioned here specifically as " the daughter of Leah , " for she , as her Mother Leah , liked to " Go out " as we were told , when in Torah earlier , Leah had gone out in the incident of the Dudaim . This teaches us how our men and women must be modest and keep to ourselves and not display ourselves , but have Tznius Purity and Modesty . Shechem , the son of the king in the land where they were staying , saw Dinah when she ' went out ' from her family to look over the daughters of the land at the festival , which teaches us Jews to not go out to foreign festivals and mix with foreign people and foreign ways , but we are to remain quietly and modestly within our Jewish Community modestly remaining pure and not lower our spirituality by being enticed to a physical way of living that is impure . Shechem desired her and took her by coercive force and raped her . He spoke to his father and asked his father Hamor to get her for him as a wife . When Yaakov's sons heard , they were outraged . They agreed on the surface to Hamor's request , only if the Shechemites would circumcise themselves . Yaakov's two sons Simeon and Levi at the age of thirteen , on the third day after the Shechemites had circumcised themselves , finding out that the Shechemites were planning to attack Yaakov's family , set upon the town and killed all the males and took back Dinah their sister , who by now was carrying within her a daughter who later was born and was named Asenath , who married Yosef in Egypt . Yaakov was upset at their anger and feared reprisals , which did take place , for the nations around them got together and attacked Yaakov and his family . HaShem Saved them with massive dust storms and Yaakov and his family escaped unharmed . We are also told how , after Yaakov and Eisav parted , that Eisav's people did attack Yaakov and his family , but ended up dispersing , as they were beaten and Eisav was injured . HaShem Appeared To Yaakov And Told him to go to Beth-El Luz and make an Altar there and fulfil his promise of tithes . Yaakov rid themselves of all the idols that they were carrying and that they had only taken as spoils from Shechem and these idols were left under the Terebinth near Shechem , in the ground . Torah then tells us that Devorah , Rivka's wet-nurse passed away . She was very close to Rivka , Yaakov's Mother and that she was buried in a place that Yaakov called Allon - Bachus . Bachus ( this word is in the plural and indicates two passings ) means " Weeping . " This part is put in here to tell us that at that very moment , Rivka , Yaakov's Ima had also passed away , but it is not directly mentioned here for no one was there at the time as a close family relative to bury Rivka , except Eisav , whom Rivka would not have wanted to bury her and that all would say she mothered such a Rasha and so , she was buried quietly , for Yitzchak was blind and Yaakov was still on his way to her . This is why the word Allon - Bachus is in the plural , for the double weeping of Rivka and Devorah . So after Yaakov left so many years ago , he never got to see his dear Ima again and it was Devorah who had just come to meet them as they were on their way back to see Yitzchak and Rivka . HaShem Then Renames Yaakov Yisrael and Yaakov set up a pillar Where HaShem Blessed him and called the place Where HaShem Had Spoken To him " Beth - El , " which actually means , " House of G-D . " They journeyed from there toward Ephrath and it was there that Rachel went into labour . It is at this time when a woman is in labour when Satan scrutinizes a woman's account and so was remembered Yaakov's words that whoever has the teraphim will die and so , as she was giving birth to Binyamin whom she actually called " Ben-Oni " - " Son of my Mourning , " that she passed away and Yaakov called him " Binyamin " - " Son of my right hand , " so as to give him a positive name and destiny . Rachel was buried on the road to Ephrath Beis-Lechem , not in the Cave of Machpelah as the Fore-Fathers and Fore-Mothers were , as she would in the future when our exiles would pass this exact place when they were going into Bavel under Nebuchadnezzar , that she prayed for us To HaShem And HaShem Listened To her prayer , for it would be there at that exact place that they , our exiles , would walk past on the way to Bavel . HaShem Would Acknowledge her prayer because as she was prepared to stand aside and not be angry at her sister marrying Yaakov , So Could HaShem Put Aside His Anger At some of us following Avodah Zorah worthless idols , that caused us to go into exile . Yaakov set up a monument there at her burial place which is still there to visit today . The Holy Torah Then Tells us how Reuvein did an Aveirah . This has to be understood in its Hebrew depth . Not that Reuvein Chas Ve Shalom , lay with his Father's wife , but that in each of his Father's Wives tents , was A Couch For The Shechinah Of HaShem , so that Yaakov would know which Tent to go into when conceiving the Twelve Tribes and that when Rachel passed away , Yaakov moved his Couch into Bilhah's tent and Reuvein , standing up for his Mother Leah , moved it out and into his Mother Leah's tent so that his Father should not slight his Mother Leah . We know that Reuvein did not commit an aveirah with his Father's wife for the very next verse says , " The sons of Yaakov were twelve , " suggesting that they were all worthy of being part of the Twelve Tribes and were all Torah Keeping not to break Torah Laws and so this is what really happened , but seeing as Reuvein , as all the others then were Tzaddikim , the punishment for even a slight Aveirah , is great and so Reuvein lost his first born right and so , spent every moment praying To HaShem day and night for forgiveness . Even at the end of Yaakov's life , Yaakov still Blessed Reuvein as holy , so Reuvein's action was never one of taking his Father's wife , Chas Ve Shalom , but it was rather of interfering with The Couch Of The Shechinah and his Father's couch . Torah Then Tells us that Yaakov finally came to Yitzchak his Father , not Rivka , for she had passed away . We are told that Yitzchak passed away at 180 years of age , which was the same year ( according to ' Midrash Bereishis Says , ' by Rabbi Weissman ) that Yosef was released from prison in Egypt . Yaakov and Eisav buried their Father Yitzchak in the Cave of Machpelah Chevron near Mamre . The Torah then goes into the line of Eisav and his wives . We note a lot of incest and intermarriage among Eisav's family . We also note how their arrogance had them calling themselves ' chiefs ' and how the chiefs did not live that long as chiefs , for murder was and is rampant in Eisav's line . Out of Eliphaz , son of Eisav , came Amalek , our enemy who tries to kill us through time , among others . Magdiel , in Eisav's line that is mentioned here , is the ancestor of Rome . We are repeatedly told here how Eisav is the father of Edom . So the Parsha ends . The Sedra is called " Vayishlach , " which means " Sent , " where Yaakov sent Angels ahead of him to his brother Eisav . The whole idea of sending and being An Emissary For HaShem , Takes Great Holiness . It is not always an easy path to travel , as we note with Yaakov's life and trials . We often wonder what exactly is an Angel . If one looks closely at the phrasing of the first three words of this Parsha , " Vayishlach Yaakov Mal'achim " and we read these words in another context , it can almost appear as if saying , ' And Yaakov was sent as an angel . ' The " Vayi " part of the word " Vayishlach , " can be put also as ' And He , HaShem , Sent , ' as if to say , ' And He HaShem Sent Yaakov , as an Emissary . ' So what is an Angel ? An Emissary Of HaShem . We all can be Emissaries Of HaShem if we choose . If we keep HaShem's Commandments In HaShem's Holy Torah . We all can be like Angels , Working For HaShem and not for ourselves . No doubt that real Angels are Spiritual Entities . Even their negative counterparts , are too . Even those spiritual negative counterparts do a job in testing our faithfulness To HaShem , to test us that we are truly following HaShem Only , above our own wants and desires . So to be like an Angel is to be An Emissary For HaShem , Working Solely For HaShem and not for ourselves , just as Yaakov did his whole entire life . No wonder Yaakov can , with a little deeper interpretation , be referred to as one . HaShem Sends us all out As His Angels And Emissaries , To Do His Bidding and make Creation A Place Of Holiness Where HaShem Can Dwell Among us . To make Creation A Place Of Holiness As HaShem Intended , so each of us are HaShem's Emissaries , to use our lives In HaShem's Service to bring all those around us To HaShem . We are all HaShem's Shaliachs Shluchim , like Angels , working to make all things Holy . But how do we start ? With ourselves , for the best way to teach , is through being a holy example to others and to all those around us . The Angel That HaShem Sends , is not to be asked for a name , For It Is HaShem Who Is Important And The Sender Of The Message , for we should all work For HaShem , thus the messenger Is The Hand Of HaShem . The same is with us . To Get Close To HaShem is very beautiful but not just to be done for ourselves . What is Most Important , is to be A Messenger , An Emissary Of HaShem The Holy One Above . This Is The Way To Be With HaShem . To Be The Hand Of HaShem's Sending , in all that we do . We are only HaShem's Emissaries . The World around us has forgotten this and so it sadly goes its own wrong way . This is why the World is in such a bad shape and is suffering so . The way to stop the suffering and change the World To The Sweet And Bright Welcoming Of HaShem , is to change ourselves and do our tasks As Creations Of HaShem , As HaShem's Emissaries , not working for our own way But For HaShem And HaShem's Way , Following HaShem And Doing As HaShem Tells us To Do , starting with ourselves and working outwards . This will bring the Creation to where it is supposed to be and the World will improve . So stand up right now and say To HaShem that from now on , you will be HaShem's Emissary Angel , Working Only For HaShem , Doing All That HaShem Tells you To Do In HaShem's Ever So Holy Torah And Be HaShem's Emissary To All Of HaShem's Beautiful Creation Around you . Let us all make this World , HaShem's Delight As HaShem Created It And Be True And Faithful Shaliachs To And Of HaShem HaKadosh Baruch Hu HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish Ever Most Forever Beloved HaShem With Utmost And Eternal Love And Faithfulness , A Truly Special And Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh With So Much Eternal Love and to all of my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , HaShem's Special Emissaries , A Truly Special and Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love .