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\u201cDoes she look like a Maayan?\u201d I remember asking my husband minutes after the birth of our daughter. After 27 hours of hard labor, I urgently wished to know this little being. Settling on a name was a way of knowing her, shaping her, signaling through its meaning a connection to others I had loved and to a future I longed for.<\/span><\/p>\n

I thought of this moment as I read about Rachel naming her newborn, Ben-oni, son of my suffering, with her dying breath. The name is painful in its honesty. At last she delivers the second of two children she has longed, prayed and begged for, but only at the moment of her death.<\/span><\/p>\n

The twin acts of breathing life into being and naming, action and speech, are creative acts in the Divine image.<\/span><\/p>\n

So it is quite striking when, immediately after her death, Jacob renames their son Benjamin, son of my strength, perhaps attempting to rescue him from the burden of his name\u2019s meaning, attempting to reinterpret Rachel\u2019s creative act. Indeed Jacob is all too familiar with the strife a descriptive name at birth can engender. Through the name Benjamin, Jacob invokes a different fate, one of strength rooted in the reiteration of God\u2019s covenantal promise and his name change earlier in this chapter.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rachel\u2019s creative acts, the birthing and naming and the suffering that surrounded them, cannot be fully resolved anymore than Jacob fully rises to meet the promise of his new name.<\/span><\/p>\n

Like Rachel, we create and live in the context of mortality. 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