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Exodus 17,9. “and G’d’s staff will be in my hand.” ‎Moses meant that just as G’d is the “staff” of the universe, doing ‎as He pleases with His universe, so the staff that the G’d had ‎given him enables him to work wonders at will for benefit of his ‎people.” Moses alluded to what the Talmud in Moed Katan ‎‎16 stated, quoting G’d: “who rules over Me? The righteous.” The ‎reference is to the staff G’d had entrusted to Moses, the one by ‎means of which he performed the miracles. G’d had entrusted ‎Moses with this staff, allowing him to use it at his discretion.‎