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Chasidut zu Bereschit 35:13

וַיַּ֥עַל מֵעָלָ֖יו אֱלֹהִ֑ים בַּמָּק֖וֹם אֲשֶׁר־דִּבֶּ֥ר אִתּֽוֹ׃

Und Gott stieg vor ihm empor an dem Orte, an dem er mit ihm geredet hatte.

Kedushat Levi

Genesis 35,13. “G’d rose from over him from the site at ‎which He had spoken with him.” Rashi comments that he ‎does not know what the words “from the site He had spoken with ‎him” are to teach us. [We would have known that G’d rose ‎from that site without these words. Ed.]
It would appear that we can gain an insight from the words of ‎‎Bereshit Rabbah 47,6 on Genesis 17,22 when a similar term is ‎used for G’d returning to the celestial spheres after speaking with ‎Avraham. The Midrash there understands the word ‎ויעל ‏‎, as ‎a hint that the patriarchs were the carriers, support of the Divine ‎chariot, Avraham having been the first one. If so, our verse would ‎indicate that Yaakov had by now also qualified to be another such ‎support of G’d’s chariot. Our sages stated that in order to ‎function as such “supports,” the patriarchs had to be on holy ‎soil, in the Land of Israel. When G’d had told Yaakov to return to ‎the land of his fathers, He had implied that once he did so, he too ‎would qualify as one of the supports of the ‎מרכבה‎, “the Divine ‎chariot.” (Compare Rashi on 31,3)‎
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