"Then Jacob came in peace with all that he had to the city of Shekem, in the land of Canaan, in his coming from Padan Aram; and he dwelt near the city." Targum Pseudo-Jonathan (Genesis 33:18) underscores three things: Jacob came in peace, with all that he had, and he chose to dwell near the city rather than inside it.
The rabbis famously took the Hebrew word shalem — whole, complete, at peace — as the summary of Jacob's journey. He arrived whole. After twenty years with Laban, after the wrestling at the Jabbok, after the reunion with Esau, nothing essential had been lost.
Three kinds of wholeness
The Talmud (Shabbat 33b) reads Jacob's shalem as threefold: whole in body (his limp had healed), whole in wealth (his flocks had survived), and whole in Torah (his learning had not been eroded by exile). The patriarch who limped out of Peniel walked into Shechem restored.
But the detail "he dwelt near the city, not in it" is also telling. Shechem was a Canaanite city with Canaanite customs. Jacob wanted to be close enough to trade with it and far enough to stay distinct from it. The choice foreshadowed the tragedy that would soon unfold around Dinah.
The takeaway: wholeness is a posture you can lose in one decision. Jacob arrived whole; the question was whether he could stay that way.