Only one person in the Torah ever creates their own name for God, and it happens in this week’s Torah reading.  Hagar, the Egyptian, whose name means “the stranger,” flees to the desert, miserable because of her mistreatment by Sarah.  She encounters an angel who comforts her, and in return she calls God by a new name:  El Roi – “God who sees me” (Gen. 16:13).  God does not magically solve Hagar’s problems;