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In our chapter, Isaiah extols God in theologically suggestive terms as \u201cHe who calls forth the generations from the beginning\u201d (qore\u2019 ha-dorot me-rosh<\/em>). And then goes on to prophecy, speaking in God\u2019s name: \u201cI, the Lord, am first and last \u2013 I am He!\u201d (Isaiah 41:4).<\/span><\/p>\n

Midrash Tanhuma Ki-Tisa\u2019 12 employs our verse to create a dramatic description of the creation of humanity. \u201cHe calls forth the generations from the beginning\u201d alludes to God\u2019s having shown Adam, at the time of his creation, all subsequent human generations. How every righteous man in the future would descend from Adam\u2019s seed. According to the body part associated with their various good deeds, there were those who were hanging from Adam\u2019s head, those who were hanging from his hair, from his neck, from his eyes, from his nose, from his mouth, from his ears and from Adam\u2019s arms.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tanhuma Buber Bereshit 30 preserves a synagogue sermon that opens with our verse: <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe who calls forth the generations from the beginning. If the generations had been worthy, the Holy One, Himself would have given them all their names as He gave names to Adam and Eve. Indeed, you find that when the Holy One sees a righteous person born, He Himself gives him his name\u2026as it was, for example, with Abraham\u201d (see Genesis 17:5).<\/span><\/p>\n

Mekhilta de-Rabbi Yismael on Exodus 20:1 (Yalqut Shimoni I 246) cites Rabbi Natan, the second century CE son of the Babylonian Exilarch, as saying that our verse provides a refutation of those dualists who claim that there are \u201ctwo powers\u201d (i.e. a good god and an evil god). For when God proclaimed: \u201cI am the Lord Your God\u201d (Exodus 20:2) no other power opposed Him. If one should claim that God\u2019s proclamation was made in secret, God went on to state specifically: \u201cI am the Lord and there is no other. I have not spoken in secret\u2026I, the Lord, speak the truth. I declare what is right\u201d (Isaiah 45:18-19). I am He who was at Sinai, and I am He who was at the crossing of the Red Sea. I am He who was in the past and I am He who will be in the future\u2026as it says: \u201cThus said the Lord, the King of Israel\u2026I am the first and I am the last and there is no god but Me\u201d (Isaiah 46:4). And it says: \u201cHe who calls forth the generations from the beginning. I, the Lord, am first and last \u2013 I am He!\u201d (Isaiah 41:4).<\/span><\/p>\n

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