Мидраш к Шмот 31:1

It is written (in Prov. 3:4): SO YOU SHALL FIND GRACE AND GOOD FAVOR IN THE EYES OF GOD AND HUMANITY. You have one who is pleasing to the king but is not pleasing to the people of the king's palace.³¹Gk.: palation; Lat.: palatium. There is also one who is pleasing to the people of the palace and not pleasing to the king. In the case of the righteous, however, when they are pleasing before the Holy One, they are pleasing before angels and before mortals. This is what you find in < the case of > Daniel. When the angel came to him, he called that person beloved three times: (Dan. 10:11:) < O DANIEL >, GREATLY BELOVED ONE, UNDERSTAND THE WORDS. It is also written (in Dan. 10:19): FEAR NOT, O GREATLY BELOVED ONE! (Dan. 9:23:) AND I HAVE COME TO DECLARE < IT > BECAUSE YOU ARE {ONE WHO IS} GREATLY BELOVED. And why did he call him GREATLY BELOVED three times? It is simply that a person is blessed when the angel brings him good news and says: You are beloved before the Holy One. You are also praised among the heavenly beings and beloved with your generation. Bezalel also was praised before the heavenly beings and among lower beings as well. Where is it shown? Where it is stated (in Exod. 31:2f.): SEE, I HAVE CALLED BEZALEL < … > BY NAME; < AND I HAVE FILLED HIM WITH THE SPIRIT OF GOD, IN WISDOM >…. It is also written (in Exod. 35:30f.): THE LORD HAS CALLED BEZALEL < … > BY NAME; < AND HE HAS FILLED HIM WITH THE SPIRIT OF GOD, IN WISDOM >…. See, < he is praised in one verse > among the heavenly beings; see, < he is praised in the other verse > among the lower beings. Ergo, it says (in Prov. 3:4): SO YOU SHALL FIND GRACE < AND GOOD FAVOR IN THE EYES OF GOD AND HUMANITY >.

And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying: “See, I have called by name Bezalel” (Exod. 31:1). Solomon said: Whatsoever cometh into being, the name thereof was given long ago, and it is foreknown what man is (Eccles. 6:10). Scripture also says elsewhere in reference to this: Who hath wrought and done it? He that called the generations from the beginning (Isa. 14:4). The Holy One, blessed be He, declared: When I determined at the very beginning of time to build the Sanctuary, I already announced his name, and made his name known. And it is foreknown what man is. Even when the first man was a lifeless mass, the Holy One, blessed be He, showed him all the righteous men who would descend from him. Some hung from his head, others were suspended from his hair, and still others from his neck, his two eyes, his nose, his mouth, his ears, and his arms. Proof of this is in the fact that when Job complained against his Creator, saying: O that I knew where I might find Him, that I might come even unto His seat! I would order my cause before Him, and fill my mouth with arguments. I would know the words which He would answer me, and understand what He would say unto me (Job 23:3–5). The Holy One, blessed be He, replied to him: Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? (ibid. 38:4). R. Simeon the son of Lakish maintained: Where wast thou is written because the Holy One, blessed be He, was in fact asking Job: Where were you suspended from the first man? Was it from his head, his hair, his neck, his eyes, or from one of his limbs?