![]() When Eisav's angel saw that "he could not overcome him, he touched the joint of his thigh, and the joint of his thigh became dislocated.". This struggle can be seen in the historical events that have surrounded the nation of Yisrael in their struggles against the nations of the world during the two thousand years of exile. And at this point a spiritual battle of faith opens up between Yaccov, about whom his father said, "The voice is Yaacov's voice and the hands are Eisav's hands" (whose personality includes a combination of the Beit Midrash, prayer, and Torah study together with creative hands that build up and improve the world) and the spirit of Eisav, representing a value system described by, "You will live by your sword" (a world full of war and struggles, based on the principle of satisfying lust and personal egoism. When he returns to take some small vials that he left behind, Yaacov meets the angel who represents Eisav. During this time, Yaacov builds up the spiritual basis for establishing the nation of Yisrael, and he prepares for the complex meeting with his brother Eisav. Yaacov, our Patriarch, returns home to Eretz Yisrael after a long exile, an example of the principle that the events of the fathers point the way for the future of the children. (This theme is expanded in the first chapter of "Nefesh Hachaim" Chapter 1) When a person performs a mitzva he awakens the upper world in the same way that he previously operated in the world below. It is possible from a detailed internal analysis to understand the essence of a human being and his link to the high spiritual worlds. In his image and the way he was created, mankind represents the highest level worlds, as is written, "And from my own flesh I can see G-d ". While we cannot identify the precise correlation between most mitzvot and the organ or tendons that they represent, with respect to the gid hanasheh it is written in the Zohar that it corresponds to the fast day of the Ninth of Av (Zohar, Vayishlach). Every organ represents one of the positive Torah mitzvot and every tendon corresponds to one day of the solar year and represents a specific negative mitzva. The human body has 248 organs and 365 tendons, and as is well known this corresponds to 248 positive mitzvot and 365 negative mitzvot. Therefore Bnei Yisrael do not eat the tendon of the thigh.". "And he saw that he could not defeat him, so he touched the joint of his thigh, and the joint of Yaacov's thigh was dislocated.
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