Parashas Haazinu · Passuk from filename
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English: “the Rock that bore you, you neglected” — you forgot the Rock that bore you. “and you forgot God who brought you forth” — you forgot the God who gave birth to you. This teaches that Israel forgot the goodness that the Holy One, blessed be He, had bestowed upon them.
Custom (phrase-by-phrase or midrashic expansion of the verse).
The midrash extracts concrete legal, historical or theological referents from the wording of the passuk, giving the brief biblical language a fuller operational meaning.