The God Who Told His Expanding World Enough

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 8:1

"And God called the dry land Earth" (Genesis 1:10) - which was eager to do the will of its Maker. Rabbi Yitzchak says: "I am El Shaddai" - I am the One who said to My world, Dai [Enough], for had I not done so, heaven and earth would still be stretching and extending on and on. "And the gathering of the waters He called Seas." But is it not a single sea? Rather, the fish that comes up from Acco and Sidon is not like the one that comes up from Spain.

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