Anyone walking into a Judaica library will find thousands and thousands of books, all of which are essentially interpretations of the Five Books of Moses. Such a multiplicity of opinions might lead him to the erroneous conclusion that there isn't really one true tradition that explains the eternal Book of Books. Such a person should be directed to the nearest Yeshiva, where these various interpretations are discussed, analyzed, and integrated into a cohesive system of thought. Indeed, the holy Torah is all one integral unit, and any interpretation of a specific verse must be viewed and understood in the context of the whole complex mega-structure of Jewish Thought, as derived from all the other thousands of verses.
Unfortunately, many people lose sight of the whole picture as they rummage through the details, but Yaakov Avinu had no such failing. Although he embodied the holy Sephira of Tiferes, Splendor, which accentuates the diversity of Truth, he never separated himself from the cohesiveness and simplicity of Absolute Truth, symbolized by the Sephira of Yesod. Of all his sons he preferred to give the coat of many colors to Yoseph, because he knew that he alone would be able to recognize the unity that underlay the diversity of colors the garment displayed. When Yoseph was taken away from him, he could not stop mourning him because his loss was truly unconsolable. He held on to Binyamin for dear life as a substitute, until he could hold on no longer. Only when he was reunited with his son Yoseph did he feel he had completed his mission on earth and was ready to die in peace.
Adapted from Rabbi Vali's book on Bereshis. Questions and subscriptions can be mailed to: the Yeshiva