at which he said to the Holy One Blessed be He: Can it be that Your ways are like those of flesh and blood? The apitoropos makes a decree and the kalidikos abrogates it; the kalidikos makes a decree and the dikorion abrogates it; the dikorion makes a decree and the hegmon abrogates it; the hegmon makes a decree and the ipitikos abrogates it; the ipitikos makes a decree and the overlord comes and abrogates all of them? Why so? For all are appointees of his, one above the other; but his decree cannot be abrogated?—But You are not like this! You decree and a tzaddik (a righteous person) can abrogate it. (Devarim, Ibid.) "For who is Almighty in the heavens and in the earth to do as Your deeds ad as Your strength": "as Your deeds"—at the Red Sea; "and as Your strength"—at the streams of Arnon.