Midrash su Isaia 57:13

[(Gen. 37:1:) NOW JACOB DWELT < IN THE LAND >.] This text is related (to Is. 57:13): WHEN YOU CRY OUT, LET YOUR ASSEMBLED ONES SAVE YOU. What are they? These are the angels who were placed to guard him when he went away to go to Aram-Naharaim, since the angels who minister in the land of Israel do not minister outside the land, nor do those who belong outside the land < minister > in the land of Israel.⁴So above, 8:3. So (in Gen. 28:12) Jacob saw < some > ascending and others descending to go abroad with him. Then, when he came to return, the Holy One summoned those angels who had ministered to him in the land. He said to them: Here is Jacob returning. Come on and let us go out for a meeting⁵Gk.: apante, according to the metathesis suggested by Buber and assumed in the Jastrow lexicon. On apante used for apantesis, see Jud. 4:22 (LXX). with him {i.e., to the border}. To what is the matter comparable? To a king whose son went away overseas to take a wife. After some time he came to return to his father's house. The king said to his court⁶’PSYQYN, which probably represents the medieval Latin word for “court,” i.e., obsequium. {i.e., to his army}: Come and let us go out for a meeting with my son. So, when Jacob came to return to the land of his father, the Holy One called the ministering angels. He said to them: Come and let us go out for a meeting with Jacob. As soon as Jacob raised his eyes, he saw the angels, as stated (in Gen. 32:2 [1]): SO JACOB WENT ON HIS WAY, AND THE ANGELS OF GOD MET HIM…. When Jacob saw them, where is it shown that they ministered to him in the land of Israel? Where it is stated (in vs. 3 [2]): WHEN JACOB SAW THEM, HE SAID: THIS IS GOD'S HOST. It is therefore stated (in Is. 57:13): WHEN YOU CRY OUT, LET YOUR ASSEMBLED ONES SAVE YOU. These < ASSEMBLED ONES > are the angels. (Ibid., cont.:) BUT THE WIND SHALL CARRY THEM ALL AWAY.⁷Gen. R. 84:1. These are Esau and his lords, as stated (in Gen. 36:6): < THEN ESAU TOOK HIS WIVES >, AND WENT INTO A LAND AWAY FROM HIS BROTHER JACOB. (Is. 57:13, cont.:) YET THE ONE WHO TAKES REFUGE IN ME SHALL INHERIT THE LAND. This ONE is Jacob, as stated (in Gen. 37:1): NOW JACOB DWELT < IN THE LAND >.

R. Chiya b. Abin, in the name of R. Joshua b. Karcha, said: "God forbid that we should incense Elimelech, for could they have obtained even bran-flour for use, they would not have emigrated. But why then were they punished? Because their duty was to pray for their generation, and they did not, as it is said (Is. 57, 13) By thy crying thou canst he saved vnth all who are gathered with thee." Rabba b. b. Chana said, in the name of R. Jochanan: "This is taught only when money is cheap and the grain high; but if money is dear even when the price of four saahs is only one selah, one may emigrate from Palestine, as R. Jochanan said: 'I remember a time when there were four saahs of flour for one selah, aud there were many lying swollen from starvation in Tiberia, for they did not have an issar with which to buy food.'" R. Jochanan said again; "I remember that working people did not wish to take work on the east side of the city, as the smell of bread [which the west wind carried to them] would cause an increase in their appetite and would kill them." R. Jochanan said again: "I remember when a child broke apart a piece of carob, from which a continuous flow of honey poured out on his hands." R. Elazar said: "I remember, when a raven would catch a piece of meat, a conainuous flow of fat would be seen dropping from the height to the ground." R. Jochanan said again: "I remember times when young girls of sixteen and boys of seventeen would walk together and did not sin." R. Jochanan said further: "I remember when it was said in college: 'He who assents to them (does not antagonize their errors) falls into their hands, and he who confides in them, — all that is his are theirs.' "