Is the Right Hand of God Sick or Changed

Pesikta DeRav Kahana 17:2

"And I said, This is my sickness, that the right hand of the Most High has changed" (Psalms 77:11). Rabbi Shmuel bar Nachman said: Because we did not entreat Your face in repentance, the right hand has changed. Rabbi Alexandri said: That oath which He swore to us at Horeb has become weakened, and the right hand has changed. Rabbi Simon said: Have you ever in your days heard that the sphere of the sun is sick and cannot rise and serve, or that the sphere of the moon is sick and cannot rise and serve? For His servants there is no sickness, yet before Him there is sickness? Rabbi Yitzhak said: It is like a champion who dwelt in a province, and the people of the province trusted in him, that when troops came there he would go out and show himself to them and at once they would flee. When the troops came there he said to them, My right hand troubles me. But the Holy One, blessed be He, is not so; rather, "Behold, the hand of the LORD is not too short to save" (Isaiah 59:1), "but your iniquities have separated between you and your God" (Isaiah 59:2). "The years of the right hand of the Most High" (Psalms 77:11): Rabbi Resh Lakish said, If they are sicknesses there is hope, for one who suffers in the end is healed; if it is a change of the right hand there is no hope. This is the view of Resh Lakish, for Resh Lakish said: "For if You have utterly rejected us, You are exceedingly angry with us" (Lamentations 5:22): if it is rejection there is no hope, but if it is anger there is hope, for one who is angry is in the end appeased. And Zion says, He has abandoned me, He has forgotten me, "And Zion said, The LORD has abandoned me, and the Lord has forgotten me" (Isaiah 49:14).

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