Vayishlach

 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