Har HaBait Jewish Sovereign for all Israel

  KabbalaOnline.org is a project of Ascent of Safed www.ascentofsafed.com ascent@ascentofsafed.com KabbalaOnline.org Vayechi 5783 The Holy Ari Insights on the Torah Reading Please Note : The bold text is the direct translation of the classic text source. he regular text is the explanation of the editor/translator   Mystic Math & the Name of Jacob The Holy Ari  Advanced From the teachings of Rabbi Yitzchak Luria; translated and edited by Moshe Yaakov Wisnefsky " And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt for seventeen years. " ( Gen. 47:28) As we know, Jacob was also known by another name, " Israel ". These names - particularly the latter - eventually became the names of the collective entity of the Jewish people. The phrase "the children of Israel" is first applied to the direct sons of Jacob, but gradually comes to mean "the Israelites ", i.e., the whole nation, and later the term &q