"Elijah Accompanied Jacob Throughout the Exile"

"Mount Hebron connected with Mount Moriah, for the entire matter is that the mountains connect together. 'Tavor and Hermon shall sing for joy in Your name' (Psalms 89:13), for all the mountains connected together. This is the work, 'Tavor and Hermon shall sing for joy in Your name,' to go to a holy war. And this is the secret of Migdal Eder (274) written in the parashah, 'And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder' (Genesis 35:21), for from there Mashiach ben David will arrive. And a woman who is blessed with children in Parashat Vayishlach can bring Mashiach ben David. She only needs to intend that her mikvah falls during Parashat Vayishlach, and then she will be able to bring Mashiach ben David."

"Migdal Eder is the secret of Mashiach, that the heels of Leah become the crown of Rachel. This is what is written, 'And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the field of Edom' (Genesis 32:4). The messengers are Elijah the Prophet, for it is written, 'And the messengers returned to Jacob' (Genesis 32:7), the initials of which spell Elijah. Elijah accompanied Jacob on all his paths, throughout the entire exile, for the twenty years. All the time, Jacob had a revelation of Elijah, to see Elijah, to hear Elijah, to follow after Elijah. Elijah followed after Jacob and Jacob followed after Elijah."

"'And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother to Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him' (ibid). 'A man with him,' Ephron the Hittite, and by his full name Ephron ben Tzochar, was the minister of the dogs; he was a reincarnation of a dog. Therefore, Abraham had to subdue Ephron ben Tzochar, and Jacob had to subdue Laban in order to inherit Edom."

"They were many, quarreling, like Yael the wife of Heber the Kenite, 'She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples' (Judges 5:26), both 'smote off' and 'pierced through.' Two actions corresponding to milah (circumcision) and periah (uncovering); among the Ishmaelites it is only one action, but in Israel it is two actions. 'Through the window she looked forth, and wailed, the mother of Sisera, through the lattice.'"