הֲתַחַת אֱלֹהִים אָנֹכִי

ביטוי (אנגלית)

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

הגדרה (אנגלית)

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)