The Names of Yisroel and Their Spiritual Significance
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The Names of Yisroel and Their Spiritual Significance

הפצת המיינות חוצה | December 10, 2025

The name Yisroel is also from the words of the Possuk: כִי שָּרִיתָּ עִם אֱלֹהִים וְׁעִם אֲנָּשִים וַתוּכָּל because you have wrestled with [an angel of] G-d and with men, and you have prevailed.

You have prevailed: The word שָּרִ יתָּ also means to rule, to reign.

In HaShem: in matters of G’dliness on this world.

And in men: Of this world, even of the antithesis of holiness.

To conquer them: And transform them to holiness.

However, even this matter is still not enough, because it is feasible that this Avodah could be focused on the four cubits of prayer or in Eretz Yisroel, and the ultimate purpose is to make this whole world into a dwelling place for HaShem, blessed be He.

This also explains the continuation of the Possuk where it is written: “וּמָּלְׁאוּ פְׁנֵי תֵבֵל תְׁנוּבָּה” - and fill the face of the earth like fruit”, for this concept is extended outwards to תֵבֵל ‘the whole world’, in a manner of וּמָּלְׁאוּ of ‘filling up’, and in a manner of תְׁנוּבָּה ‘Tenuvah’ and as is explained in Chassidic discourses that the letters of the word תְׁנוּבָּה are the same as the letters for the word בוּנָּהתְׁ and refers to the supernal sphere of בִינָּה meaning understanding.

The word תְׁנוּבָּה is also made up of the letters תְׁנוּ בָּהּ ; an expression of giving, as the maxim כָּל הַנוֹתֵן בְׁעַיִן יָּפָּה הוּא נוֹתֵן “If someone already gives, he gives nicely”, which is the way in which the Divine Hamshocha comes into this world.

The name Yisroel is also from the words of the Possuk: כִי שָּרִיתָּ עִם אֱלֹהִים וְׁעִם אֲנָּשִים וַתוּכָּל because you have wrestled with [an angel of] G-d and with men, and you have prevailed.

You have prevailed: The word שָּרִ יתָּ also means to rule, to reign.

In HaShem: in matters of G’dliness on this world.

And in men: Of this world, even of the antithesis of holiness.

To conquer them: And transform them to holiness.

However, even this matter is still not enough, because it is feasible that this Avodah could be focused on the four cubits of prayer or in Eretz Yisroel, and the ultimate purpose is to make this whole world into a dwelling place for HaShem, blessed be He.

This also explains the continuation of the Possuk where it is written: “וּמָּלְׁאוּ פְׁנֵי תֵבֵל תְׁנוּבָּה” - and fill the face of the earth like fruit”, for this concept is extended outwards to תֵבֵל ‘the whole world’, in a manner of וּמָּלְׁאוּ of ‘filling up’, and in a manner of תְׁנוּבָּה ‘Tenuvah’ and as is explained in Chassidic discourses that the letters of the word תְׁנוּבָּה are the same as the letters for the word בוּנָּהתְׁ and refers to the supernal sphere of בִינָּה meaning understanding.

The word תְׁנוּבָּה is also made up of the letters תְׁנוּ בָּהּ ; an expression of giving, as the maxim כָּל הַנוֹתֵן בְׁעַיִן יָּפָּה הוּא נוֹתֵן “If someone already gives, he gives nicely”, which is the way in which the Divine Hamshocha comes into this world.

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