The Enthronement Of The Messiah

Lulyani bar Tavri said in the name of Rabbi Yitzhak: See the humility that is in the hand of the Holy One, blessed be He. See what is written there (Psalm 81): "Moses speaks, and God answers him with a voice." It need only have said: God speaks, and Moses answers Him with a voice. This is the meaning of "and Your humility makes me great" (Psalm 18:36) [read here as "Your humility," though the plain sense is "Your gentleness"]. Rabbi Abba bar Kahana said in the name of Rabbi Shmuel: See the humility that is in the hand of the Holy One, blessed be He. What is written? "And the LORD said to me: This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened" (Ezekiel 44:2). A king of flesh and blood, his honor is to enter through the great gate, surely not through a small gate; but the Holy One, blessed be He, enters in His glory through a small gate. This is the meaning of "and Your humility makes me great." Rabbi Yudan said in the name of Hama bar Hanina: In the time to come the Holy One, blessed be He, will seat the King Messiah at His right hand, and Abraham at His left, and Abraham's face will turn pale, and he will say: The son of my son sits at the right, and I sit at the left! And the Holy One, blessed be He, will appease him: The son of your son is at My right, and I am at your right. This is the meaning of "and Your humility makes me great." "You enlarge my steps beneath me" (Psalm 18:37): they will be broadened and not pushed and not made to slip. "Beneath me" (literally, you set me beneath) refers to when David fought with Yishbi in Nov. "I pursue my enemies" with the troop of Amalek: "Shall I pursue after this troop? Shall I overtake it?" (1 Samuel 30:8). "And I do not turn back until they are consumed": "And David smote them from the twilight" (1 Samuel 30:17). "And I devour them and crush them" with a crushing blow.