Emptied to be Filled: The Story of Jacob at Jabbok

The river Jabbok in this story is an archetype of liminal spaces. Spaces in between your past and
your future, life and death, bondage and freedom, being born and being reborn. You are on
liminal spaces when you have graduated, but not yet have landed in a stable job; when you're in
the airports - you have left home but not yet arrived at your destination, or say, when you're a
citizen of Ukraine nowadays. The river Jabbok (whose name means "evacuation, dissipation,
wrestling") was Jacob's liminal space. Twenty years earlier, when Jacob ran away from Esau's
wrath, his liminal space was Beth-El, where he dreamt of angels descending and ascending to
heaven by a ladder.