창세기 32:5 해설: Tze'enah Ure'enah, Rashi, Chizkuni & Da'at Zekenim

“I stayed with Laban” [32:5]. He told them to say to Esau. You hate me for nothing, since I was only a servant and no lord, in the house of Laban. The blessing of my father that he blessed me that I should be a lord over my brothers was not fulfilled for me. Therefore, he said, “I stayed.” He meant by this, there are six hundred and thirteen commandments in the Torah.⁴The gematria of the word “I stayed” [garti] is six hundred and thirteen. That is to say, Jacob said to Esau, do not think because I lived with the evildoer Laban, that I did not observe the Torah, and you will vanquish me.⁵Rashi, Genesis, 32:5. Since our father said that when Jacob will not study Torah, then Esau will have dominion over Jacob. Therefore, I am telling you that even though I lived with Laban, yet I studied Torah.⁶Devek Tov, Rashi, Genesis, 32:5, note 1.

גרתי I HAVE SOJOURNED — I have become neither a prince nor other person of importance but merely a sojourner. It is not worth your while to hate me on account of the blessing of your father who blessed me (27:29) “Be master over thy brethren”, for it has not been fulfilled in me (Tanchuma Yashan 1:8:5). Another explanation: the word גרתי has the numerical value of 613 - תרי״ג - it is as much as to say, “Though I have sojourned with Laban, the wicked, I have observed the תרי״ג מצות, the 613 Divine Commandments, and I have learned naught of his evil ways.

לאדני, לעשו, “to my lord, to Esau.” We find Yaakov addressing Esau as “my lord,” no fewer than eight times in this portion. This may be the reason why eight kings ruled in the land of Edom before the first king ruled in the land of Israel.