Rabbi Berekhya said in the name of Rabbi Levi — The Holy One

Midrash Rabbah Esther Rabbah 6:7

Curated by The Jewish Mythology Team · Published January 6, 2025

Rabbi Berekhya said in the name of Rabbi Levi: The Holy One blessed be He said to them, to Israel: You wept and said: “We have become orphans, fatherless” (Lamentations 5:3). By your lives, also the savior that I will establish for you in Media in the future will not have a mother or father. That is what is written: “For she had neither father nor mother.”

Themes

Holy Land Tribes Esther Women of the Bible Tragedy

Biblical References

Lamentations 5:3

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