Gen. 32:16, listing the gifts that Jacob offered Esau when returning to the land of Israel from Mesopotamia, where he had established a family in his uncle Laban’s domain, writes ...

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at which point the latter changed the former’s name from Jacob to “Israel” (Yisrael) “for you have striven with beings divine and human, and have prevailed (sarita)” (Genesis 32:29).

Here is my home I will not stay silent because my country changed her ... the Israel that could be. The America that is; the America that could be. Prophet Jacob had a ladder and we all ...