מראה־מקום אויף ישעיהו 56:7

Prayers had already supplanted sacrifices at that time and many people apparently ignored these in the belief that if prayers had been desired by God He would not have allowed the temple to be destroyed. Rabbi Jose then declared that God also prayed. He arrived at this conclusion from the verse of Isaiah “I will make them joyful in my house of prayer” (56:7). The use of the words “my house of prayer” instead of “their house of prayer,” Rabbi Jose held to be proof that God also prayed.³⁰⁾ברכות ז׳ א׳.