And yet - what are we to do now, while we are still submerged in the depths of galus, while redemption has not yet come? The Midrash Rabbah (ויצא סח ב) gives us our answer, and it comes in the voice of Yaakov Avinu.
The Midrash recalls how Eliezer went to bring Rivkah leading ten laden camels. Yaakov, by contrast, arrived at the home of Lavan with nothing - stripped of everything by Eisav. The Midrash pictures Yaakov standing at that moment and asking himself: "Shall I despair of my Creator?" And then answering his own question with fierce conviction: לֵית אֲנָא מוֹבִיד סִבְרִי מִן בָּרְיִי - "I will not lose hope in my Creator." Not for a single moment. עֶזְרִי מֵעִם ה' - "My help is from Hashem!"
This is the inheritance Yaakov left us. There is no certainty that the road would be easy. What we did inherit is an unbreakable emunah that the One who watches over us neither slumbers, nor sleeps - that He guards our goings and our comings, from 'Eisav', 'Lavan', and from every foe, seen and unseen. When everything has been stripped away, the Yid turns inward and finds the certainty that has never moved: I will not lose hope in my Creator.
