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Why did Benjamin merit the reposing of the Shechinah in his portion? This may be compared to (the situation of) a king, who visited his sons from time to time. Each one said let him stay with me. The youngest said: Is it possible that father will leave my big brothers and stay with me? — whereupon he was completely crestfallen. His father, seeing him in this state, said: I will eat by you and sleep by him. Thus, the Holy One Blessed be He said: The Temple will be in the portion of Benjamin, and sacrifices offered by all of the tribes. This mashal for me, expresses a deep rabbinic imaginative concern for the fate of the youngest son of Jacob once ensconced in the land of Israel.
We review the rabbinic reasons for splitting the mikdash between Jacob and Benjamin