What letters did he request?
Rashi: Letters that tell your permission [to rebuild Yerushalayim] stamped with your signet.
Malbim: Scribes of the king should give to him letters in the name of the king.
Why does it say "Pachavos"?
Ibn Ezra: This is the full form of the word. When it says Pachos, the last letter of the root 1 is omitted.
The last letter is Hei; in the plural, it changes to a Vov. (PF)
What is the meaning of "Ya'aviruni"?
Rashi: They will guide me in Shalom.
Malbim: They will command soldiers to guard me. Until Ever ha'Nahar, the king sent officers (9).
Why did he say "until I come to Yehudah"?
Rashi: Until I come to Yerushalayim, which is in Medinas Yehudah.
