The rabbis of Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer chapter 48 imagined the hand of God as a kind of cosmic instrument, each finger doing its own piece of sacred work.
With the little finger, the text teaches, God showed Noah how to build the ark. With the ring finger, He struck the Egyptians with the plagues. With the middle finger, He wrote the first set of tablets at Sinai, for it is written (Exodus 31:18): Tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
With the fourth finger, the index, He pointed out to Moses the exact half-shekel each Israelite should give as a ransom for his soul (Exodus 30:13): This shall they give. Each man held up his own index finger and copied the motion of God's. The half-shekel tax was a piece of choreography.
And with the thumb, the strongest and most powerful, the fifth finger, the Holy One will one day destroy the descendants of Esau, who have long oppressed Israel, and the descendants of Ishmael, who are its enemies. As it is written (Micah 5:9): Your hand shall be lifted up against your adversaries, and all your enemies shall be cut off.
This teaching from Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer, preserved in Hebraic Literature (1901), imagines a God whose hand is not metaphorical but choreographed. Each finger is a chapter of history, pointing, writing, pressing, striking, and one day closing the long account.