Jacob Wrestles
With An Angel

Rembrandt, 1659.

This, the moment when Israel emerged, hangs in the Dror Yehuda room of Engelbrecht House, another gift of
Andy and Lindsay Vance.

At the end of a long struggle in the darkness,
Jacob broke the angel
and was broken
by the angel.

He was then renamed Israel,
“because you have struggled
with God and with men
and have overcome.”
– Genesis, chapter 32

There are more kinds
of breaking yet to come.