Why the Prayer of the Righteous Is Likened to a Pitchfork

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 110:15

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Rabbi Elazar said: Why is the prayer of the righteous likened to a pitchfork (the word for Isaac's entreaty, va-ye'etar, evokes eter, a pitchfork)? To tell you: just as this pitchfork turns over the grain on the threshing floor from one place to another, so too the prayer of the righteous turns over the disposition of the Holy One, blessed be He, from the attribute of anger to the attribute of mercy.

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PrayerDivine CompassionRighteousness

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