Jewish%20thought for Taanit 3:13

מפתח של גשמים דכתיב (דברים כח, יב) יפתח ה' לך את אוצרו הטוב את השמים לתת מטר ארצך בעתו מפתח של חיה מנין דכתיב ויזכור אלהים את רחל וישמע

Here it is written, 'Who doeth great things and unsearchable'. And there it is written, 'Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard that the everlasting God, The Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? His discernment is past searching out.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Isa. XL, 28. rej');">¹⁵</span> And [of Creation] it is [also] written, Who by Thy strength settest fast the mountains, Who art girded about with might.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ps. LXV, 7. Rabbah b. Shilah infers from the analogous use of the word , in Job (where it speaks of rain) and Isaiah (where it refers to Creation) that just as God displayed 'Power' at Creation so too 'Power is a concomitant of rain. Hence the expression, POWER OF RAIN.');">¹⁶</span> Whence do we know that mention of Rain is to be made in the Prayer?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The Tefillah.');">¹⁷</span> - It has been taught: To love the Lord your God and to serve Him with all your heart.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XI, 13.');">¹⁸</span> What is Service of Heart? You must needs say, Prayer. And the verse following reads, That I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. v. 14.');">¹⁹</span> R'Johanan said: Three keys the Holy One blessed be He has retained in His own hands and not entrusted to the hand of any messenger, namely, the Key of Rain, the Key of Childbirth, and the Key of the Revival of the Dead. The Key of Rain, for It is written, The Lord will open unto thee His good treasure, the heaven to give the rain of thy land in its season,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XXVIII, 12.');">²⁰</span> The Key of Childbirth, for it is written, And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened

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