Variantly — "Who is like You bailmim" ("among the mute")

Mekhilta DeRabbi Yishmael Mekhilta Tractate Shirah 8:5

Curated by The Jewish Mythology Team · Published January 24, 2025

Variantly: "Who is like You bailmim" ("among the mute"). You hear the defamation of Your children and You remain silent, viz. (Isaiah 42:14) "I have ever been silent; I have been still; I have restrained Myself. (But now) I will scream as a woman giving birth. I will throb and lust (to destroy all My foes) together." In the past I was silent and restrained. From now on I will scream. (Ibid. 15-16) "I will lay waste the mountains and the hills, and I will dry up all their grass, and I will render the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools. And I shall lead the blind in a way they did not know. In roads they did not know shall I lead them. I shall make the darkness into light before them, and the crooked paths into straight paths."

Themes

Prophecy Kabbalah Rain

Biblical References

Isaiah 42:14

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