it is beyond my power to do it/ Can I take the place of God?

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it is beyond my power to do it/ Can I take the place of God?

it is beyond my power to do it/ Can I take the place of God?

Figuratively: 'Do I have the power like God?!' An expression meaning that I do not have the ability to do things over humans, I am after all just a son of man.

("And Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, and Rachel envied her sister, and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die. And Jacob was wroth with Rachel, and said, As God hath withheld from thee this child of mine own" - Genesis 31 (Concerning Rachel and Jacob), and so: "The more than a thousand thousand were far from the paths of the righteous, my Maker The miracles, and when we turned to him with requests of this kind, he answered in his letter to his followers: "Under God I am" - S. Dubnov/ Divrei Yamii Olam, 155)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

הֲתַחַת אֱלֹהִים אָנֹכִי

Definition (Hebrew)

בִּמְלִיצָה: הַאִם יֵשׁ לִי יְכֹלֶת כְּמוֹ אֱלֹהִים?!, בִּטּוּי הַבָּא לֵאמֹר שֶׁאֵין בִּיכָלְתִּי לְבַצֵּעַ דְּבָרִים עַל אֱנוֹשִׁיִּים, אֲנִי בְּסַךְ הַכֹּל בֶּן אָדָם.

("וַתֵּרֶא רָחֵל כִּי לֹא יָלְדָה ,לְיַעֲקֹב וַתְּקַנֵּא רָחֵל בַּאֲחֹתָהּ, וַתֹּאמֶר אֶל יַעֲקֹב, הָבָה לִּי בָנִים וְאִם אַיִן מֵתָה אָנֹכִי. וַיִּחַר אַף יַעֲקֹב בְּרָחֵל וַיֹּאמֶר הֲתַחַת אֱלֹהִים אָנֹכִי אֲשֶׁר מָנַע מִמֵּךְ פְּרִי בָטֶן"- בְּרֵאשִׁית ל א (עַל רָחֵל וְיַעֲקֹב), וְכֵן:"הָרַב מִלְּיוֹנְזָה רָחוֹק הָיָה מִדַּרְכֵיהֶם שֶׁל הַצַּדִּיקִים עוֹשֵׂי הַנִּפְלָאוֹת, וּכְשֶׁפָּנוּ אֵלָיו בְּבַקָּשׁוֹת מִמִּין זֶה עָנָה בְּאִגַּרְתּוֹ לַחֲסִידָיו: הֲתַחַת אֱלוֹהִים אָנֹכִי"- ש.דּוֹבְנוֹב/ דִּבְרֵי יְמֵי עוֹלָם, תפ"ה)

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