For Arthur Waskow, his own pilgrimage began quietly enough, with learning Hebrew and studying the Jewish Scriptures. I knew how sharp a turning it was when I realized that for the first time in my life, I was writing poetry. And this was not greeting card verse, either. But ever since, we've talked. We should wrestle again with our Comrade sometime soon.
Wrestling feels a lot like making love.
This, then, was what one man could say as a result of his own passage through these stages. Waskow's continuing spiritual journey led him to become part of a Jewish renewal group in Washington, D.C. called Fabrangen, which tackled the Bible in just this way regularly in its Sabbath services. Every Shabbos morning, the Fabrangen wrestles God. Ourselves, and each other, and God. We do not simply accept the tradition, but we do not reject it either.