El Shaddai as the God Who Told Creation Enough

Another interpretation (of Genesis 17:1): "I am God Almighty (El Shaddai)." Rabbi Abbahu said: When the Holy One, blessed be He, created His world, He created the heavens and the earth, and He told them that they should go on stretching out, as it is said, "and spread them out like a tent to dwell in" (Isaiah 40:22). Had He not said "Enough!" to them, they would have gone on stretching out until the dead would live again. The Holy One, blessed be He, said to Abraham: I am the One who said to My world "Enough!"; so too He says to the foreskin "Enough!"