Dina, Leah’s daughter, was like her mother. She knew it is sometimes important to go help people learn about how to serve Hashem in the right way. She went to try to help the girls of Shechem learn the right things to do.

But Shechem, the son of Chamor, was a big Rasha. When he saw Dina, he thought she was very pretty and treated her not nicely and acted like he was married to her even though he wasn’t!

Yaakov heard what happened, but he didn’t do anything right away. He waited for the Shevatim to come back from watching the animals in the field. In the meantime, Chamor came to talk to Yaakov about Dina marrying Shechem.

When the Shevatim heard what Shechem did, they realized that the city was a city full of resha’im. Everyone in the city knew about what he did, but nobody did anything about it! Such a city needs to be destroyed!

They told Chamor that everyone in the city should have a bris milah if they want to marry people from Yaakov’s family.

Then, when everyone in the city was resting from the bris milah, Shimon and Levi took swords and went into the city.

They didn’t ask their father, but went with the koach of their father because they felt this was the right thing to do. Because of the zechus of being Yaakov’s sons, they were able to destroy the city of resha’im.

Then they brought Dina home, and Shimon promised to marry her because she was afraid nobody would marry her after what Shechem did.

Yaakov was not happy with what they did. “Now everyone will think we are going to kill them, and they will want to fight with us!”

But Shimon and Levi said, “We had no choice! We cannot let such a thing be done to our sister.”

Hashem told Yaakov, “What happened to Dina was because you didn’t let her marry Esav, and also because you didn’t bring the korbanos you promised yet. So go to Beis Keil, and make a Mizbeiach.”

Yaakov told his family and all of the people with them to get rid of all of the idols that they took when killing the people in Shechem, and to take off any clothes that have pictures of idols on them. “Then we will go to Beis Keil and make a mizbeiach for Hashem Who always takes care of me.”

They gave Yaakov all of the idols, and he buried them near the city.

Instead of wanting to fight Yaakov, the other people were afraid of him, and nobody tried to fight them when they went. When they got to Luz, which is Beis Keil, Yaakov made a mizbeiach, and called that place Keil Beis Keil, since that’s where Yaakov saw Hashem when he was running away from Esav.

Devorah, Rivkah’s nurse, passed away and was buried in Beis Keil. She had come to tell Yaakov to come home, and then came with them back to Eretz Yisroel. While he was burying Devorah, someone came and told him that his mother Rivkah passed away. Yaakov called that place Alon Bachus, meaning a plain of crying, since he cried there that his mother passed away. (It doesn’t say Rivkah’s name here in the Torah so nobody should say not nice things about her because she was Esav’s mother.)

Hashem appeared to Yaakov again here, and gave him a bracha to comfort him after Rivkah passed away. Hashem gave Yaakov another name, Yisrael, just like the malach had said. Hashem promised Yaakov that his family would grow to be many people, and that they would have Eretz Yisrael. Hashem also gave him a special bracha that through Yosef would come two Shevatim (Menasheh and Efrayim), and through Benyamin, who would be born soon, would come kings (Shaul and Ish-Boshes).