baruch ata adonai eloheinu melech ha olam ki ra iti elohim panim el panim vatinatsel nafshi in arrogance jacob cheated esau of his inheritance and was on the run from his older brother ever since forced to run and hide he sent his family and team across the stream while camping on the other side under a starry sky tension hung in the air jacob was in despair as he uttered a prayer within his heart feeling a range of emotions he looked up and out of the darkness saw a stranger approach him what jacob was facing was an amazing visitation but fear for his life lead to a brazen altercation at first he thought it was esau until he got close by and realized it was a messenger from on high the shoving match wouldn t pass in fact it lasted long kept dragging on until the crack of dawn as jacob held on with a grip the stranger tapped on his hip and knocked it out of socket causing him to walk with a limp aching and bruised with a leg that was moved seized with anger dazed and confused jacob refused to release the stranger the man said it s daybreak let me go jacob responded unless you bless me no as jacob stood still on the plains of peniel the stranger revealed the change of his name to israel but jacob had a question right before the stranger left him what is your name the man said why do you ask then he blessed him it was a time of testing yet it left an impression and it was more than the fact that jacob received his blessing frightened and scared at this time he declared i have seen the living god yet my life has been spared lord god of israel who is like you oh god in heaven above or in the earth below but will you truly dwell on earth the heavens even the highest heavens cannot contain you 