Yes, that's one of my favorite things about the religion as well! And I love that the story behind that name is that Jacob had a literal fight with God in a dream, and then God named him, basically, "Fights With God" and he was the progenitor of the whole Jewish people under that name.
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Yes, that's one of my favorite things about the religion as well! And I love that the story behind that name is that Jacob had a literal fight with God in a dream, and then God named him, basically, "Fights With God" and he was the progenitor of the whole Jewish people under that name.