And so, with the Torah’s account of the splendor of Jacob’s funeral procession, its account of the triangle linking Joseph, Jacob, and Pharaoh comes to an end—except that, in a way, it has not yet begun. For the story the Torah is telling us about Jacob’s funeral has one more glorious act to it, an act that will take place centuries later. Everything we have seen thus far is a shadow of something much larger, a drama that will play out on the greatest possible stage.
