Jewish%20thought for Yoma 138:16

ורבנן היכי עבדי הכי ועקרי תקנתא דתקין משה אמר רבי אלעזר מתוך שיודעין בהקב"ה שאמתי הוא לפיכך לא כיזבו בו

The interpretation of R'Mattena seems to agree with what R'Joshua B'Levi said: For R'Joshua B'Levi said: Why were they called men of the Great Synod? Because they restored the crown of the divine attributes to its ancient completeness.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The crown, I.e., the praise of the Lord. By re-embodying the attributes, which Jeremiah and Daniel had omitted.');">²¹</span> [For] Moses had come and said: The great God, the mighty, and the awful.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. X, 17.');">²²</span>

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