Hannah Exults and the Righteous Who Praise the Full Name

Yalkut Shimoni on Nach 80:5

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"My heart exults [alatz] in the LORD" (1 Samuel 2:1). [The letters of the word alatz:] ayin is seventy, lamed is thirty, tzadi is ninety, behold that is one hundred and ninety. She said to Abraham: You gave a son at one hundred years, and to Sarah at ninety years; therefore my heart exults [the numerical value matching one hundred plus ninety]. Rabbi Yirmiya ben Elazar said: Great is the power of the righteous, for the whole world and its fullness do not praise the Holy One, blessed be He, with the complete Name, as it is said, "Sing joyfully, you righteous, in the LORD" (Psalms 33:1), [and] "My heart exults in the LORD" (1 Samuel 2:1).

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PrayerWisdomFaith

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