בס״ד
Vayishlach
are we not all lamed
as a result of our struggles with
our own angels
the times in our lives when
we must separate from all we know
and remain alone, naked, on our side of
the Yabok
there to wrestle with our lesser angels
a battle postponed and avoided
not so eager to engage in
the throw and pin of the match
only then is it possible to
move forward - prepared
for the next round
when our wounds will turn to assets
and we’ll be touched, with God’s help, by
“the better angels
of our nature” *
*Abraham Lincoln, Inaugural Address, 4 March 1861, כ״ב אדר תרכ״א
