[(Exod. 35:30:) SEE, THE LORD HAS CALLED BEZALEL … BY NAME.] This text is related (to Is. 40:25–26): THEN UNTO WHOM WILL YOU LIKEN ME THAT I SHOULD BE EQUAL? SAYS THE HOLY ONE. LIFT UP YOUR EYES ON HIGH AND SEE: WHO CREATED THESE? …. The Holy One said: THEN UNTO WHOM WILL YOU LIKEN ME? If a person of flesh and blood is walking in the darkness, when someone comes and gives him light, should he not be grateful to him?⁸., Exod. 10:4; Exod. R. 48:2. Now you are asleep at night when I cause the light to rise for you. Should you not be grateful to me? (Is. 40:26:) LIFT UP YOUR EYES ON HIGH AND SEE; WHO CREATED THESE?…. By virtue of what do they stand? THESE (in Gen. 2:4:): THE GENERATIONS OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH?⁹ By virtue of THESE (in Exod. 1:1): THE NAMES OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL.¹⁰ And these are by virtue of whom? By virtue of THESE (in Deut. 4:45): THE TESTIMONIES, THE STATUTES, AND THE JUDGMENTS.¹¹

footnotes: ⁸ Tanh ⁹ These words would be more commonly rendered: THESE ARE THE GENERATIONS OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. ¹⁰ These words would be more commonly rendered: NOW THESE ARE THE NAMES OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. ¹¹ The words would be more commonly rendered: THESE ARE THE TESTIMONIES, THE STATUTES, AND THE JUDGMENTS.

(Is. 40:26:) WHO CREATED THESE? [THE ONE WHO SENDS FORTH THEIR HOST BY NUMBER. HE CALLS THEM ALL BY A SINGLE NAME.] It is written (ibid.): HE CALLS THEM ALL BY A SINGLE NAME. But one scriptural verse says, NAMES (i.e., Ps. 147:4): [HE GIVES NAMES TO THEM ALL]. If Ps. 147:4 says NAMES, why does Is. 40:26 say BY A SINGLE NAME? If Is. 40:26 says BY A SINGLE NAME, why does Ps. 147:4 say NAMES? It is simply that, when the Holy One wishes, he calls them all as a single unit; but when he wishes otherwise, he calls each and every one by his own name, e.g. Michael and Gabriel. Ergo (in Is. 40:26): HE CALLS THEM ALL BY A SINGLE NAME.

Another interpretation (of Is. 40:26): HE CALLS THEM ALL BY NAME. So it is for above. Where is it shown for below? Where it is stated (in Exod. 35:30:) SEE, THE LORD HAS CALLED BEZALEL… BY NAME.