Surprise Inspiration (Vayishlach)

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Today's Morning Minyan features the BimBam video "Who Did Jacob Actually Wrestle?" by author Dara Horn.

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Transcript

Transcript

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Speaker 1
All right. I'm going to take a moment here to drape myself under a tallit. And feel free to also take this moment to get settled in your seat. Close your eyes. Set up a little straighter. To inhale and exhale.

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Speaker 1
Just a few breaths of pure, pure soul. Coming. Coming in. Infusing you.

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Speaker 1
Breathing out whatever negative juju or energy you don't want to hold on to this morning.

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Speaker 1
Wrapping myself in this to lead.

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Speaker 2
By right here. I don't need them. I share Kachina women. Twitter, witchy.

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Speaker 1
Vanu la heat, ATF. That sets it.

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Speaker 2
I mean.

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Speaker 1
So this weird thing happened as I was sitting down to open up. Open up. Zoom with all of you. And it's that I started. I just started playing.

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Speaker 1
And then I realized I was beginning to write a tune. So we're going to sing a model that I just wrote just now. That's what happens when you take a vacation. But let me put up the words here for.

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Speaker 2
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1
I think it I think it needs a B part, but that's okay. You know, that'll that'll come. So here we are.

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Speaker 1
All right. But we've got I think I've got a really good solid AA part. So here's how it is.

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Speaker 2


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Speaker 2
Oh, Danny, listeners, I love this. I think I shared as I tubby niche Matty the same, Rabbi. When I tap

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Unknown
And I like that more.

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Speaker 2
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Speaker 1
I feel like the b part is going to go, you know, into a minor like that or something. Maybe that.

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Speaker 2
Way.

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Speaker 1
Maybe I'll bring in some Longinus Shammah. I need to write that another time. And then, you know, reprise of pas de.

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Unknown
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Speaker 2
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Speaker 1
Well thanks everybody. It's an unusual morning, but that's that's fun.

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Speaker 2
All right, well, I, want to.

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Speaker 1
Just invite, like, the spirit of creativity.

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Speaker 2
Inspiration.

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Speaker 1
Whatever. Whatever kind of freshness and newness might actually be quite welcome in your own life this morning to invite it in. Yeah, that was unexpected for me. I didn't wake up this morning thinking about that, and then it just kind of happened. But.

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Speaker 1
Yeah. May we all be blessed with unexpected inspiration and then share it. That's the thing. I don't think we do often enough. Right. And I guess I'm lucky because I have all of you here and you all were just there for it. But, you know, like, if you have an inspiration and you want to send it, we have a slack channel.

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Speaker 1
We actually this is, you know, mostly we just post like, links from, you know, a video that we played or, you know, announcements about minion. But I say if you have some kind of inspiration, a thought, a piece of writing a poem, a song like take a little video of yourself doing it, or record yourself or write it and then like, put it in our slack channel and you will get at least one person who answers their slack, who says, wow, that's beautiful.

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Speaker 1
Congratulations. Do more. All right.

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Speaker 2
Oh, oh.

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Speaker 1
You know what? As we're passing through some of these, like, morning psalms here, this Psalm 122. Yeah, he shalom. I think this is an important one. This is an important one for the times we live in. May there be peace in your fortresses and equanimity in your citadels. You know, this is like Psalm 122 is considered like the psalm for Jerusalem, the psalm for peace.

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Speaker 1
You know, peace in the Holy Land. And there are many lines in it that have this kind of sentiment. But but it's just interesting phrasing because, you know, in other places we pray for peace. We pray for a suka of peace. Like a fragile little sweet natural hut. You know, that kind of reminds us of the fragility and impermanence of our bodies and everything in the world.

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Speaker 1
And we say inside of that impermanence inside of that, instability. May you find stability. May you find peace. May you find health. And I want to pray that for all of you. And you know what? Now I find that, like, this is going to be our this is going to be our healing prayer. This morning came it came early.

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Speaker 1
But this prayer is not like that. This prayer prays for peace within your walls. Basically, you know, within your stone. You know, these stone constructions. May you have peace inside of these. You know, walls of protection, your fortresses. And, you know, many of you know, I was where I spent this Thanksgiving break was Ireland. And we saw a lot of castles.

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Speaker 1
We saw a lot of fortresses. And, most of them are ruins at this point. You know, you go to Israel and you see, you know, any or any place in the world, you know, a lot of those old castles are there now, archeological remnants. And it just kind of reinforces the walls are not what keep you safe at the end of the day.

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Speaker 1
Maybe short term, but long term it's not the walls. It's something else. It's a spirit of peace. It's a spirit of community. It is whatever it is that keeps all of us, in safety and in wholeness and in love and in healing. So we pray for all of that. For all of us and for everyone.

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Speaker 1
People who are cowering behind walls and people who are exposed. You know, in their suit coats outside. Praying for peace. Praying for wholeness. Praying for shelter and safety. And mostly for community and care. So if there are folks that you're thinking of this morning who you want to pray for, let's do that here with this prayer.

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Speaker 2
Who, me? Who? Down.

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Speaker 2
Meredith, I was thinking about you on Monday. Or, I guess Monday of last week. I'm so glad that surgery went great and recovery is going well.

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Speaker 1
All right, everybody. Seeing all of.

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Speaker 2
The.

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Speaker 1
Names of your loved ones coming through.

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Speaker 2
Yeah. He. Shalom. Bethlehem. Action. They. I'm in all the time. Yeah. He Shiloh that he that have, they I'm in no time. Yeah. He had.

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Unknown
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Speaker 2
Yeah. He had, they left have, they are in all types of, you know, like eight, eight, nine. I mean, I.

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Unknown
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Speaker 2
I, I, I, I.

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Speaker 2
Yeah he shalom. They say.

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Unknown
That they have they, I mean.

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Speaker 2
Not I and refresh my.

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Speaker 1
Refer to nefesh refer.

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Speaker 2
To go.

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Speaker 1
To every single person who in your heart who you're praying for, whose name you mentioned, every person in this room who shows up every morning to pray and to get.

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Speaker 2
Connected.

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Speaker 1
And to be healed in whatever small way. They're coming together in community and singing and connecting with tradition heals us. Refresh them.

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Speaker 1
All right. I'm gonna zoom way past all this. And actually, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to go yoink over this one. And.

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Speaker 2
Oh, Bahu. Come here. Okay.

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Speaker 1
All right. If you are if you are in a position where you can stand, if you're feeling like you can stand. Want to stand? Do a little stretching upwards toward the sky and then genuflecting toward the earth and then coming back up again. So all right, that's what we do for our bar. Oh, I am facing east. Feel free to unmute.

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Speaker 1
Oh, as we greet each other with blessing.

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Speaker 2
Larry, who at I don't know, I I'm over I don't know roughly around, but, Oh, I don't know. I have him or, little then they're at, I don't, I don't call them your chair or whatever. Oh, shack or say shalom or air tackle. I'm gonna.

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Speaker 1
Come down here.

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Speaker 2
Or Hadash outside on Tahrir Square. Juliano. Mahira. Liberal. Very hard on. I broke her at the Shaheen. Have I, oh. Sang Shalom over at tackle. Your chair. Hamid. Oh, wrote.

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Speaker 2
And then this is like an English version of the. I have a rabbi.

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Speaker 1
Is there anybody who wants.

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Speaker 2
To read.

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Speaker 1
This?

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Speaker 2
Rami Shapiro out loud, this poem, this. Oh, I will interpretive translation.

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Speaker 1
Beautiful. Thank you. Eric.

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Speaker 4
We are loved by an unending love. We are embraced by arms that find us even when we are hidden from ourselves. We are touched by fingers that soothe us. Even when we are too proud for soothing. We are counseled by voices that guide us, even when we are too embittered to hear. We are loved by an unending love.

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Speaker 4
We are supported by hands, and God blessed us even in the midst of a fall. We are urged on by eyes that meet us even when we are too weak for meeting. We are loved by an unending love embraced, touched, soothed and counsel. Ours are the arms, the fingers, the voices. Ours are the hands, the eyes, the smiles.

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Speaker 4
We are loved by an unending love them.

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Speaker 1
Thank you. It's Rabbi Rami Shapiro.

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Speaker 2
I have, Rob, have no, I don't I know, you know, I'm like a doula via Tara. Her maternal angel.

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Speaker 1
This is one of these places where they they change the words. Usually. I really like what this particular Chela synagogue. This is out of the Bay area. What they do with, some of the divine translations that they'll, you know, kind of play with and evolve. But in this particular case, given what we have talked about, of the gender bending with Avenue mile, canoe race and millennial Father King in rap, us in your womb like I'm actually like, no, no, no, leave it alone.

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Speaker 1
It's okay. You don't need to rewrite that. It's cool that it is kind of gender fluid. And it calls attention to that and actually, like, erasing that and making it gender neutral, kind of, you don't get that. You don't get that nuance. And actually that, complexity. Okay, fine. It's all right. It's all right. All right.

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Speaker 1
I'm going to pick up down here that area.

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Speaker 2
There. Erin, ain't no way to ratify that, Berkeley Bay. No limits for death. Hey, I say live. I ain't no the I have five. Will your, command.

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Unknown
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Speaker 2
But I, I keep the shape covered. Chef. I got told I had no rub. I just, you know, do you love any sniff? Not loving this Miss Irish. What,

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Unknown
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Speaker 2
I, I feel free to.

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Speaker 1
Grab the four corners of your seat if you are wearing a tallis and if you are not to simply take the opportunity.

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Speaker 2
To.

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Speaker 1
Gather your distracted thoughts, the parts of yourself that are doing multiple things at once, the multitasking self, and try in this moment to bring yourself together, get it together. But I have that with love. With love. I didn't just make that up. I'm not being cute. It's right there. See, in the Hebrew. Get it together with love, okay?

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Speaker 1
Or restore your unity. And are we talking to God? Yes, but also to ourselves. All right, so take a moment to just hold all those parts with Ahava, with love.

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Speaker 2
Baruch, I don't know. I have a Rabbi Israel, but I have,

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Speaker 2
Close our eyes and we hold our seed seeds over our eyes. Take a deep breath. Shimmer. Yes, sir. As in, hello? In, the motto there and, and, that I have to eat, I don't, I, I, the whole of of her overall, not Shakira, her overall murder. They have you had very highly, share.

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Speaker 2
I know he he service. Hi. Yo my fishing and, that I know I have a desire to bomb the shape of a Taco Bell after kava there as well, because, of kumara usher.

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Speaker 1
Tom little Talia.

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Speaker 2
Dhaka. They have you little tough for being a knife. Look, it's after, ouzo that, Oh, Venetia, I have,

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Speaker 1
Thinking about this little section there. I have to put that on. And then it includes this whole now at some of the, you know, put them on them as a result of your house. Right here. Could have some amazons. Oak Bay taco. Vishakha. So some of you may know I many of you in this room do know, that because of our community, like, rallying together, for the Lawndale Christian Legal Center, legal center that does restorative justice work for young, mostly African American men living in Lawndale who have committed crimes.

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Speaker 1
And there are, at that point, like they could go into the carceral system. They could, you know, get convicted of their crime and go to jail. Or they could go into this system, this, program that Lawndale Christian Legal Center does, which essentially has them staying in their community, living in a residential house, getting, vocational training, getting rehabilitation.

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Speaker 1
You know, if they happen to be, you know, they have a substance issue and doing restorative justice with whoever the family is or the person is, that they have harmed. And so if this is agreeable to, you know, all the parties, they can go into this kind of a process and come out on the other end, with actual Chuba, you know, with like, not not just, you know, sort of the consequences of their actions being, like, having real consequences for their actions.

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Speaker 1
But actually having transformation as a result of them to become, you know, better people contributing to society and also not disappearing as fathers as, you know, brothers as children, you know, like continuing to be there for, the family units that they're part of, which, as you know, also contributes to the cycle of, you know, young men not growing up having role models and all of that stuff.

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Speaker 1
So it's a it's a really it is a transformational model for restorative justice. And here in this minyan even than in our wider community, we raised $50,000 for their legal center, as they were, you know, unveiling the new building. And the truth is, like, that's not enough to name a room that, you know, they need a lot more than that to, to run the center.

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Speaker 1
But it was enough to, to get a mezuzah, which, like, it's not a Jewish building. So it is a symbolic mezuzah, but the idea that the Jewish community, we here at Michigan care about the Jewish legacy of the Lawndale, you know, the specific Lawndale neighborhood, and want to show up for people in that neighborhood to be part of the healing and part of the transformation of that neighborhood and show up in a positive way, show up in a way that contributes.

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Speaker 1
And, and anyway, they loved this idea. They loved the idea of like, marking you know, one room, at the very least with a mezuzah. And they especially loved it once they understood what was written inside that little scroll. And it's it's what we just read, you know, and you will love the Lord your God with all your might, with all your courage, with all your passion, with all your strength, with all your heart, soul and might.

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Speaker 1
And that this should follow you wherever you are in this home, in this center, on the street, in your business dealings. Yeah. They they thought that was fabulous. Also, the Lawndale Christian Legal Center, they care a lot about Bible. And so the fact that we would, you know, they would have a little bit of biblical scripture, you know, hanging on a little in a little, in a little tube on a doorway.

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Speaker 1
They just thought that was lovely. And so we hired, an artist that had done an installation in that, in the center to create the Mrs. Oates arc, to create the Mrs.. And we're doing, hanging on, December 14th, during Hanukkah, like, as they dedicate the building. And so we'll be dedicating this mezuzah.

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Speaker 1
If that work sounds interesting to you, if you want to contribute to it, be part of Michigan's contribution to them. Let me know, like, reach out and let me know, because, we're doing a ceremony like midday on Sunday the 14th. And I would love for you to come if being part of that sounds meaningful to you.

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Speaker 1
All right, all right, all right. You know, I brought a little bit of parsha, but I did it in bam-bam form. So, with our last few minutes here, we'll do a little bit of. We'll do a little bit of parsha study. This week, the the person, the author writer is Dara Horn, who's a really great Jewish novelist and writer.

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Speaker 1
So anyway, this I know, I know, on Monday you might have studied a little bit about Jacob wrestling the angel. So that is, that is, in fact, also what she deals with here. And I really like her kind of surprise her. Her surprise reveal at the end what she makes of it. Okay. Can you all see this?

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Speaker 1
Give me a thumbs up if you can see and hear it. Okay.

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Speaker 5
Pass shot by you. Schlock. It's like a novel within the Torah about the life of Jacob. Why? Because unlike most ancient stories, the story of Jacob is a story of a character who changes. When we first met Jacob, he was doing things like tricking his brother Esau out of his birthright, tricking his blind father into blessing him, and tricking his uncle Laban out of several hundred sheep.

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Speaker 5
Now, it's years later, he hears that his twin brother Esau, the one whose inheritance he stole so many years ago, is coming to meet him, along with a security detail of 400 men. Jacob handles this the way he's handled everything else in his life by manipulating, dodging, and hedging his debts. He divides his entourage into two camps so that if one group is attacked, he'll at least have some children and goats left over.

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Speaker 5
He asked God to remember him for prosperity, and Jacob arranges for a series of gifts to be sent to Esau. Finally, he sends his wives and children ahead across the river and spends the night alone. Then something strange happens, as the Torah tells us, a man wrestled with Jacob until daybreak, a man. And then when the man saw that Jacob was winning, he wrenched Jacob's hip at its socket.

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Speaker 5
Jacob isn't the type to take things lying down, and even having his hip dislocated doesn't stop him from winning this seemingly unprovoked fight. But somehow this mysterious opponent is different. Defeated, the man says to Jacob, let me go because Dawn is breaking. The Jacob we know isn't about to let this guy go without getting something for himself out of the transaction, so he tells the man that he won't release him unless the man blesses him.

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Speaker 5
But instead of blessing him, the man changes him, saying, your name will no longer be Jacob but Israel, which means wrestles with God because you have struggled with God and men and succeeded. Jacob then asks a man what his name is, but the man responds, why do you ask me my name? And then the man leaves. Jacob understands that something important has happened, though he doesn't yet know what he names the place Peniel, or the face of God, meaning, as he puts it, I have seen God face to face, and my life has been preserved.

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Speaker 5
As Jacob limps off into the sunrise on his damaged hip, we see something in him that we've never seen before humility. Then he sees his brother Esau before his encounter with the mysterious man. Jacob might have met his brother with an armed entourage or avoided him somehow. But the new, humbled, crippled Jacob falls to the ground seven times at Jesus feet.

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Speaker 5
Esau runs up to greet and kiss him, and the two brothers weep. Then Jacob tells Esau that to see your face is to see the face of God, and asks him to please accept his gifts. They reconcile. Who is this mysterious stranger who wrestled with Jacob and changed him? So the Torah goes out of its way not to tell us the most common explanation is that Jacob was, quote, wrestling with an angel.

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Speaker 5
But just a few chapters back, Jacob met a whole slew of angels climbing up and down the ladder, and the text wasn't afraid to call them angels. This wrestler is clearly called a man. Another possibility is that this wrestling match is a metaphor for Jacob wrestling with his own conscience. It's an intriguing idea, but the story is a bit too physical.

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Speaker 5
When's the last time your conscience dislocated your hip? Consider this the mysterious man really was Jacob's brother, Esau. This is a physical reenactment of Jacob's first moments, when, as the Torah tells us, Jacob and Esau wrestled with each other and their mother Rebecca's womb. Now Esau has this opportunity to finish that first wrestling match, knowing all that Jacob has done to wrong him, but also knowing how time and life can change what matters most to us.

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Speaker 5
Esau comes by night so Jacob won't recognize him. But Jacob does know who this man is. He names their meeting place Peniel because they're in Esau. He saw God face to face. Well, it might be more exotic to wrestle with an angel. Jacob knows at that moment that the way we see God on earth is by facing the people we've wronged, by looking into their faces and knowing that we too can change.

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Speaker 5
The one who isn't all right.

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Speaker 1
If folks want to talk more about that, we will do it after, after we say mourners Kaddish, which we will do because we've just done some learning and because it's the end of minyan. So I see Shoshanna there, wearing an apron.

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Speaker 2
And I'm so you because.

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Speaker 1
I know I imagine you've been on the minyan before, but today's my first. Yeah, but just not with me. So I just want to say welcome to you. Thank you. Have you already had the opportunity to share who you're remembering and any anything about him that you might want to share?

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Speaker 6
Yeah, I have in the past, but for folks, I'm it's not all the same people every week. So my dad was, Rabbi Arthur Wasco, Harappa, Abraham and Scottish, my Alex yam, Ben, and, I'm, in the year of mourning for him. And, he would have, he would have loved the playfulness of that.

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Speaker 6
Josh. So that's what I'll share from him today. Like, he really loved playfully engaging with, Torah. And he would have really appreciated that.

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Speaker 2
So beautiful. Thank you.

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Speaker 1
Anyone else who is remembering someone today want to share who.

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Speaker 2
They are with us.

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Speaker 1
This morning.

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Speaker 4
My dad, Alex Haley.

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Speaker 1
My mom, in the year of her first year of, Kaddish.

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Speaker 1
And I'm just. I'm seeing names come in here and through, you know, written David Sufi and and very cross Rabbi Roy Walter, Gail young toy, Marcia Pepper, Fred Floyd Keene and Tom John. Natalie. Sweet Dylan. Arielle. Mitch. Terrapin and Leonard. Simon.

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Speaker 2
Shoshanna. Would you like to lead us this morning? And Kaddish?

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Speaker 6
Sure. It. Kajal for you. Kadosh. For me. Rabbi. I mean, I'm, Dave Rocker TV. I'm like Margaret, baritone of your mission beit Israel. But I got a lot of his man career fame room.

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Speaker 1
Yeah. Hey.

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Speaker 2
I'm.

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Speaker 6
I'm let alumni. I'm. I am embarrassed about our human being. I say, be it. I dare you to love you, to allow me to go to Shah, rescue the alarming Cobra Kai Thomas here at, To have an urgent matter run the Alma beam room.

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Speaker 1
I've made,

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Speaker 6
I mean Shalom, Araba means Shamir, Rahim Allen of alcohol, Yisrael Amira and Shalom beam. Rama. Who? Yeah. Shalom Allen. Movie. I'll call you straight, LV. I'll call you Ashley. Table the room.

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Speaker 2
For me.

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Speaker 1
And. Yeah, here is the throne. Live. Raja. May all of their memories be blessings. Man.