**Yaakov** was 100 years old [(which is Year 2208)] when HaShem appeared to him and blessed him and called his name Yisrael. Rachel, wife of Yaakov, conceived in those days, and Yaakov and all that was his journeyed at that time from Beit El toward Yitzchak his father in Hebron. And there was still a stretch of land before reaching Efrat [(Midrash HaGadol, Parashat Toldot, chapter 34, in the language of Yash...

**Binyamin** was born on the 11th of Cheshvan and lived 109 years [(Bachya). In the Midrash it is written that he lived 116 years. In Seder Olam Zuta and Seder HaDorot they write he lived 111 years. Seder Olam Zuta writes that he died 15 years before Levi.

Seder HaDorot writes 26 years, which is an error, for Levi died in Year 2332, so according to him Binyamin died 26 years earlier, which is Year 2306, and his lifespan was...

**In the book** [Lechem HaPanim, Yud-Heh section 298, it is written: Nasha"r in Parashat Miketz, "And a man wrestled with him" - "Behold you have said to tithe everything that comes to me," and behold you have twelve sons immediately to be separated. Even though he had only eleven sons at that time because Binyamin was being carried by her was counted, there were twelve fetuses from the womb. Similarly in Targum Yonatan...

**Binyamin** [Keter (crown), (Maggid Shemot).]

**Yashpeh** [was given to Binyamin. Its property is to stop bleeding (Bachya). In Targum Sheni, Binyamin was engraved on "afantor." The translator writes, meaning shivan from the teaching of Pinchas. Targum of "shaar" is called in Arabic "al-yisf" (from Machberet).

The Bachya writes that the property of the stones works when the wearer is pure, but if worn in impurity it will be nullified or will...

**It is written** [in Ma'aseh HaShem, Ma'aseh Avot, chapter 34: Similarly in Sefer Yosef, he was greater than Binyamin by only one year. The question is raised in the Tza"l section Vayeshev - but the verse is explicit in Parashat Vayetzei: "These twenty years I have been in your house, I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks" - and the wages for the flock began from when Yosef was born, year two.

"And it was when Rachel bore Yosef...

**In Yalkut** [beginning of Shemot, in Iyyar and Shevat (the Bachya writes Adar and Iyyar), no tribe was born and they remained for Ephraim and Menasheh. See the Zohar that Dan was born in Tammuz and Asher was not born. The question remains regarding that which was born in Shevat. Further, it did not count Yosef's birth, and perhaps it can be said that Yosef was born in Tammuz (and so the Bachya above regarding Yo...

**And it came to pass** after the death of Rachel that Yaakov placed his bed in the tent of Bilhah her handmaid. Reuven became angry at Leah his mother and was filled with rage, and in his anger he arose and moved his father's bed from there. At that time Reuven lost from his descendants the portion of the birthright, kingship, and priesthood. The birthright was given to Yosef, kingship to Yehudah, and priesthood to Levi.

Yaakov journeyed and...

**These are** the generations of Esav, [detailed in Parashat Vayishlach and in Divrei HaYamim and in Sefer HaYashar.] The sons of Yeush: Timna, Alvah, Yetet. The sons of Yalam: Elah, Pinon, Kenaz. The sons of Korach: Teman, Mivtzar, Magdiel, Iram, etc. And the sons of Lotan were: Hori and Hemam, and Timna was their sister.

This was Timna who came to Yaakov and his sons and they did not listen to her, and she went and...