7551. RUN THE RAIMENT, RAYMOND

RUN THE RAIMENT, RAYMOND

I am not thinking about food, ever.

I am not thinking about money, ever.

I am here, thinking about names: a name

to capture the bearer's essence. Adam,

from 'Adama', meaning Earth. He is rooted

thereby in the very earth he walks upon.

Labors in. Returns to. Eve, from 'Chava'

in Hebrew. 'Em kol chai' - the mother of

all the living. Chava is taken from the Hebrew

word chai, or 'alive' or 'the living'. In the earliest 

bible, Chava is translated two ways: Zoe, meaning

'life'; and Euem or Euan, taken now as Eve, which

loses, in English, its attachment to life. Isaac means

laughter - Sarah's mirth at having a son at 90. Jacob,

(Ya'akov'), is named because he clutched the heel  -

or akev  -  of his twin brother Esau during birth.

Such a sibling rivalry, beginning in utero, is then

literally a namesake. But after the encounter with

the angel in Genesis 32, he is renamed Israel (one

who struggled with God). That final syllable 'El'

being one of the names of God). So as he changed,

his name did too. One of King Saul's daughters, 

Merav: Her name is a Hebrew question, 'who is

greater?' To the ancients, yes, this implied question

is, 'who is greater than God?' Both the question

and the name are statements of faith. Ah, I weary.

Run, for me, the raiment, Raymond.

I tire of all these things.