In our Torah portion, Va-Yishlach, we have one of the most dramatic and vivid scenes in the Bible – Jacob wrestling with an angel. Except, in our Torah portion, it is never written that Jacob ...

arguing that the connection is biblical — from Jacob wrestling with an angel in Genesis to rabbis intellectually wrestling in the Talmud. “If we just take that and put it into the context of ...

The aloneness allowed Jacob to reach exalted heights of prophecy and strength, where he encountered an angel manifesting in this world. The angel was spiritual but wrestled with him in the ...