So he said to him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob.”
Then the man said, “You shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel,
for you have striven with God and with humans, and have prevailed.”
Then Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.”
But he said, “Why is it that you ask my name?” And there he blessed him.
Jacob is re-sounded. The grasper now is the striver. The re-sounding is costly. His hip is put out of joint.
God refuses to be sounded. His sound is the untold blessing upon this grasperstriver.
JacobIsrael sounds the space of the encounter. He calls this space the face of God, Peniel.
He likes naming places. He can’t grasp God’s name but he names the places that he meets him. The sounding of place allows the encounter to linger.