Related על מגילה 27:20

Another interpretation (of Lev. 12:2), “and bears a male”: This text is related (to I Sam. 2:2), “There is no holy one like the Lord, for there is none beside You.” What is the meaning of “for there is none beside You (bltk, traditionally voweled as biltekha)?” A king of flesh and blood builds a palace,⁵Gk.: palatinos; Lat.: palatium. and his building outlasts (rt.: blh) him; but the Holy One, blessed be He, is outlasting the world, as it were, “for there is none outlasting you (reading bltk, voweled as ballotekha).”⁶Meg. 14a. (I Sam. 2:2, cont.:) “And there is no rock (tswr) like our God.” How so? Flesh and blood fashions (rt.: tswr) an image (rt.: tswr) upon the wall, but is he able to fashion (tswr) it upon the water? The Holy One, blessed be He, fashions (rt.: tswr) the embryo in its mother's belly in the middle of water. Ergo (in I Sam. 2:2), “and there is no rock (tswr) like our God.” Another interpretation (of I Sam. 2:2), “and there is no rock (tswr) like our God: Flesh and blood fashions (rt.: tswr) an image (rt.: tswr) upon the wall, but is he able to fashion (tswr) a spirit and a soul into it? The Holy One, blessed be He, fashions (rt.: tswr) the embryo in its mother's belly and places a spirit and soul into it. Ergo (in I Sam. 2:2), “and there is no rock (tswr) like our God.” Another interpretation (of I Sam. 2:2), “and there is no rock (tswr) like our God”: When flesh and blood fashions (rt.: tswr) an image (rt.: tswr), he (the fashioner) speaks, but his image does not speak. [Still, he] praises his image. In the case of the Holy One, blessed be He, however, His image stands up and praises Him. When flesh and blood wants to fashion an image, how many ingredients must he bring before he fashions it? But the Holy One, blessed be He, fashions an image out of a single drop (of seminal fluid). Come and see the peacock⁷Gk.: taos. in which there are three hundred sixty-six kinds of colors; yet it is created from a single drop of white stuff. Now you should not [only] speak about a bird, but also about a human being, who is fashioned from a single drop of white stuff. Thus it is stated (in Lev. 12:2), “When a woman emits her seed and bears a male.” Ergo (in I Sam. 2:2), “and there is no rock (tswr) like our God.” When a king of flesh and blood fashions an image, his image does not make [another] image; but when the Holy One, blessed be He, fashions an image, His image does make [another] image, for it fashions the woman, and the woman bears an image like it.