Abstract
angel or specifically, a mysterious man. Though they wrestle until near dawn, neither bests his opponent. As the sun is about to rise, the angel demands that Jacob release him. Jacob agrees, on one condition: I will not let you go, unless you bless me (32:26). The angel assents, and Jacob receives both his and a new name, Israel. Prior Walter, the AIDS-stricken hero of Tony Kushner 's Angels in America, whom the author explicitly and implicitly likens to Jacob, also wrestles with an angel. And upon being admitted into the angelic council in one of the last scenes of Perestroika, the play's second part, he demands his own blessing: more life. More life as Kushner acknowledges in his notes to Perestroika (10, 154-55) is a translation of the Hebrew word for blessing
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