“Jacob remained alone, and a man wrestled with him until the break of dawn” (Genesis 32:25). “Jacob remained alone, and a man wrestled with him.” “Yeshurun, there is none like God, Who rides the heavens in your assistance” (Deuteronomy 33:26). Rabbi Berekhya said in the name of Rabbi Yehuda ben Rabbi Simon: “There is none like God,” but who is like God?
It is Yeshurun,1The Jewish nation. the best and most praiseworthy among you. You find that everything that the Holy One blessed be He is destined to perform in the future, He had them performed earlier, by means of the righteous in this world. The Holy One blessed be He revives the dead and Elijah revives the dead.2I Kings 17:22. The Holy One blessed be He withholds rain and Elijah withholds rain.3I Kings 17:1.
The Holy One blessed be He blesses the scarce and Elijah blesses the scarce.4I Kings 17:14–16. The Holy One blessed be He revives the dead and Elisha revives the dead.5II Kings 4:33–35. The Holy One blessed be He remembers the barren and Elisha remembers the barren.6II Kings 4:16. The Holy One blessed be He blesses the scarce [to increase it] and Elisha blesses the scarce [to increase it].7II Kings 4:2–7.
The Holy One blessed be He sweetens the bitter and Elisha sweetens the bitter.8II Kings 2:19–22. The Holy One blessed be He sweetens the bitter with bitter9Shemot Rabba 23:3. and Elisha sweetened the bitter with bitter. Rabbi Berekhya said in the name of Rabbi Simon: “There is none like God,” but who is like God? It is Yeshurun, Israel the elder.
Just as the Holy One blessed be He, it is written in His regard: “The Lord alone will be exalted [on that day]” (Isaiah 2:17), Jacob, too: “Jacob remained alone.”