Midrash su Salmi 145:3
גָּ֘ד֤וֹל יְהוָ֣ה וּמְהֻלָּ֣ל מְאֹ֑ד וְ֝לִגְדֻלָּת֗וֹ אֵ֣ין חֵֽקֶר׃
Grande è il Signore, e altamente lodato; E la sua grandezza non è ricercabile.
Midrash Tanchuma
If a single one of God’s creations (is so immense), how much greater is the Holy One, blessed be He, of whom it is written: Great is the Lord, and highly to be praised (Ps. 145:3). He is greater than all His creations.
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Midrash Tanchuma
A mortal king may be large in stature, but among his subjects there may be others who are equally large; but of the Holy One, blessed be He, it is said: Great is the Lord and highly to be praised (Ps. 145:3).
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Midrash Tanchuma
The angels of the Holy One, blessed be He, are mighty, but they are not His equal. Proof of the might of His angels is evidenced by the fact that one of them stretched forth his hand from heaven and grasped Ezekiel by a lock of his head, as it is said: And the form of a hand was put forth, and I was taken by a lock of my head (Ezek. 8:3). We learn from another verse that the distance from heaven to earth is no more than the palm of an angel, as it is written: Then was the palm of the hand sent from before me, and this writing was inscribed (Dan. 5:24). This teaches us that there is no limit to His ministering angels; how much more so, then, is there no limit to the Holy One, blessed be He. Therefore it is written: Great is the Lord and highly to be praised, and His greatness is unsearchable (Ps. 145:3). And elsewhere it is said: Yea, My hand hath laid the foundations of the earth, and My right hand hath spread out the heavens, etc. (Isa. 48:13).
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Bereishit Rabbah
And he did not listen to her to lie down with her - in this world. 'To be with her' in Gehena, in the world to come. And another opinion: 'He did not listen to her' he did not even touch her bed. A certain Roman Matron asked Rabbi Yosi: Is it really possible that Yosef, a young man of 17 resisted all his heat and did this? Rabbi Yosi took out the book of Bereshit and began reading for her the stories of Reuven and Bilhah, Yehudah and Tamar, and said: 'if with those, adults and under their father's authority the Scripture did not hide their misdeed, with this one, not an adult and by himself, all the more so it would have revealed the misdeed!
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