חֲזִיז וָרַעַם

ביטוי (אנגלית)

Thunder and lightning

הגדרה (אנגלית)

Inquiry: The reading of a prophecy or the action of a specific matter (a thunderbolt means lightning or even thunder, as in Zechariah 10:1: "They asked, 'What is the rain in the time of Malchus?' The Lord makes thunderbolts.'")

("The wonder and wisdom is in making it a law and a custom until it is no longer visible, just as the watery element does not become stronger than the visible, and in making it a way and a path for the serpents and the serpents until the fire and the wind do not become stronger than the visible" - Ralbagh, Job, 27, and so: "On the day they brought Isaac to the grave The sky was covered with clouds...and a wind came, and with it thunder and lightning" - Agnon/ Tamol Shilshom, 464, and so: "The one instrument - this is called Vajra, whose original meaning was the thunder or lightning, as if the instruments of the heavenly host" - H. Beer/ To the Place Where the Wind Goes, 248)