Rabbi Hoshaya said: Remarkable is the might of rain,12God’s might as exhibited through rainfall. as it is the equivalent of the entire act of Creation.13In that it is a metaphysical event, beyond the predictable rules of nature. What is the source? “Who performs great things, and there is no fathoming” (Job 5:9). Through what? “He gives rain over the face of the earth, and sends water over the surface of fields” (Job 5:10). Rabbi Aḥa cites it from here: “He makes the earth with His might, founds the world with His wisdom” (Jeremiah 10:12). What is written thereafter? “To the sound of His placement of the multitude of water in the heavens” (Jeremiah 10:13), and “sound” refers to none other than rain, as it is stated: “Depths call to depths in the sound of your waterways” (Psalms 42:8).