Mar. 4th, 2025: Mystery of Genesis 32

“Moses wants to say: that The Man moved the bone of Jacob’s Thigh, out of Its Place.”

—Luther, Lectures on Genesis

You may have noticed that I’ve barely posted anything over the past month (Febuary). This is because from time to time I experience periods of destitution and “withdrawal”. Spirit comes & goes, that’s life.

Nevertheless as of late I’ve begun skimming through Luther’s lectures and commentaries on the Old Testament. They are nice, and it is most of all his rhetoric that is enjoyable. His Biblical insight is mostly borrowed from the “Rabbinic Bible” (our exegetical Canon, that includes insights from commentators such as Rashi, the Malbim & Rab Kimchi).

I must say that, for this reason, not much of Luther’s remarks on the OT is new to me. I consider his effort to integrate the Old and New Testaments much more valuable (out from my viewpoint). His commentary to Galatians is nice, very. In his historical context, it is in fact refreshing.

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So as of lately, I’ve been preoccupied with the ending verses of Genesis 32, where Jacob wrestles with God.

Luther, quoting the canonical rabbinic insight, says that the name of Jacob’s “Sinew that shrank” (Gen. 32:32)—i.e, the Sinew of נשה—is a derivative from the Hebrew word for “forgetfulness” (נשיה).

My note, from a systematic cabalistic perspective, is that this root also signifies a “weakness”, or “exhaustion” (תשישות). Look into Deuteronomy 32:18: “Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful”, i.e., forgetful. Now, the literal Hebrew meaning of this verse, is: “the Rock that begat thee is weak”. (The word here for “unminded” or “forgotten”, תשי, literally means “went exhausted”, or “lost power”.)

I’ll note another mystery concerning this verse: it’s written, “The Rock shall be removed-out of his Place” (Job 18:4). & the word for this “removing-out”, of the Rock (i.e., Christ, the “forgotten” or “weakened” Rock)—which is ויעתק—etymologically relates to the word for the “dis-jointing” of Jacob’s Thigh—i.e., ותקע (Gen. 32:25).

So we see that the “Rock”—i.e., Christ—experiences a crisis and is exhausted or injured. This is the Crucifixion implicated in this story, yeah.

I fully delve into the inner meanings of those verses (and into the codes & keys encrypted within their Hebrew formulas) in the Evangelistic work I’m working on, which is written in a rabbinic Hebrew-Chaldee dialect, for appealing to a Jewish audience. With God’s Will & Grace——I hope to evanglise many Jews in the future.