Commentary for Taanit 31:15

שנאמר (משלי כח, יג) ומודה ועוזב ירוחם ואומר (איכה ג, מא) נשא לבבינו אל כפים אל אל בשמים:

And let them cry mightily unto God.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' lbid.');">¹⁴</span> What did they say? - They said, Master of the Universe, If one is submissive and the other is not, if one is righteous and the other is not, who of them should yield?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Man cannot force God to yield to him. God should, however, in his great loving-kindness yield to the prayer of a man who humiliates himself before him.');">¹⁵</span>

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