As Your Name So Is Your Praise and Why Israel Are Called the Ones Who Come

The portion of Shemot. "And these are the names of the children of Israel" (Exodus 1:1). This is what Scripture says: "As is Your name, O God, so is Your praise" (Psalms 48:11). A king of flesh and blood enters a province, and they praise him as a mighty warrior, but he is only weak. They praise him as merciful, but he is only cruel. They praise him as humble, but he is only ugly. But the Holy One, blessed be He, is not so. Rather, all that they praise of Him, He is more than His praise. They praise Him that He is mighty, and He is mighty, as it is said, "the great, mighty God." See what is written, "fearful in praises" (Exodus 15:11) - He is feared above all His praise. And so David said, "Yours, O LORD, is the greatness," and so on; "Your name is exalted above all, as head, and the greatness with which we praise You" (1 Chronicles 29:11). See, the men of the Great Assembly praise Him, "Your name is exalted above all blessing and praise" (Nehemiah 9:5). Thus, "As is Your name, so is Your praise." But human beings are not so: there are those whose names are pleasant and whose deeds are ugly, and so on (as written in hint 126). Whose names are pleasant and whose deeds are pleasant - these are the tribes, Reuben, Simeon. "He counts the number of the stars" (Psalms 147:4) - these are the tribes. Just as the stars, when they come out, come out by names, as it is said, "He brings out their host by number" (Isaiah 40:26), and enter by number, as it is said, "He calls them all by names" - so too the tribes: when they entered Egypt it is written, "With seventy souls your fathers went down" (Deuteronomy 10:22), and when they came out they came out with six hundred thousand. "And these are the names" - wherever it says "these" it disqualifies what came before, and "and these" adds to what came before. "And these are the names of the children of Israel who came (ha-ba'im)" - and did they come on this very day? Had they not already been there many days? And why does it say "who came"? Rather, all the days that Joseph was alive, the burden of Egypt was not upon them, but once Joseph died the burden of Egypt was placed upon them; therefore "who came," as if on that very day they were entering. "With Jacob" - from where do they come? From the strength of Jacob.