To cry out to high Heaven/ to protest against Heaven/ (to speak insolently against)
He made strong accusations against God. He complained about God's way of running the world.
("And Rabbi Eleazar said: Hannah uttered words like a talisman, as it is said: And you shall pray to the Lord - a teacher, who uttered words like a talisman. And Rabbi Eleazar said: Elijah uttered words like a talisman, as it is said (1 Kings 18) And you have turned their hearts back" - blessings not ab, and so: "And there is nowhere It is a shame that those who were found grinding the mortar of the upper chamber and those who were reading the mortar of the Holy One, blessed be He" - Bialik/Aryeh Baal Guff, 6, 29, and so on: "He would sit and grind words according to the mouth of the whole world and even according to the mouth of the righteous" - Agnon/Tamol Shilshom, 383, and so on: "When that affliction came to him in his house that shook him from the inside Jerusalem, then Ezra wept and cried out...but he was strong in himself and did not throw away his words like a stone" - Life of his father/ Like the morning dew, 44)
Translation
Expression (Hebrew)
הֵטִיחַ דְּבָרִים כְּלַפֵּי מַעְלָה (הֵטִיחַ דְּבָרִים כְּלַפֵּי...)
Definition (Hebrew)
טָעַן טְעָנוֹת קָשׁוֹת כְּנֶגֶד הָאֵל. בָּא בִּתְלוּנוֹת כְּלַפֵּי הַנְהָגַת הָעוֹלָם ע"י הָאֵל.
("וְאָמַר רַבִּי אֶלְעָזָר: חַנָּה הֵטִיחָה דְּבָרִים כְּלַפֵּי מַעְלָה, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר: וְתִתְפַּלֵּל עַל ה' - מְלַמֵּד, שֶׁהֵטִיחָה דְּבָרִים כְּלַפֵּי מַעְלָה. וְאָמַר רַבִּי אֶלְעָזָר: אֵלִיָּהוּ הֵטִיחַ דְּבָרִים כְּלַפֵּי מַעְלָה, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (מְלָכִים א יח) וְאַתָּה הֲסִבֹּתָ אֶת לִבָּם אֲחֹרַנִּית"- בְּרָכוֹת לֹא ע"ב, וְכֵן:"וְאֵין אֵיפֹה כָּל תֵּימָא שֶׁנִּמְצְאוּ מְטִיחִין כְּלַפֵּי מַעְלָה וְקוֹרְאִים תַּגָּר עַל מִדּוֹתָיו שֶׁל הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא"- בְּיָאלִיק/אַרְיֵה בַּעַל גּוּף, ו, כט, וְכֵן:"הָיָה יוֹשֵׁב וּמֵטִיחַ דְּבָרִים כְּלַפֵּי כָּל הָעוֹלָם וַאֲפִלּוּ כְּלַפֵּי הַצַּדִּיקִים"- עַגְנוֹן/ תְּמוֹל שִׁלְשׁוֹם, 383, וְכֵן:"כְּשֶׁבָּאָה לוֹ בְּבֵיתוֹ אוֹתָהּ צָרָה שֶׁרָעֲשָׁה מִמֶּנָּה יְרוּשָׁלַיִם,אָז בָּכָה עֶזְרָא וְזָעַק...אֶלָּא שֶׁגָּבַר עַל עַצְמוֹ וְלֹא הֵטִיחַ דְּבָרִים כְּלַפֵּי מַעְלָה"- חַיִּים סַבָּתוֹ/ כְּעַפְעַפֵּי שַׁחַר, 44)