Yalkut.

“And the souls they had gotten in Haran” (Gen. xii. 5).  These are they who had been made proselytes.  Whoever attracts a Gentile and proselytizes him is as much as if he had created him.  Abraham did so to men and Sarah to women.

Bereshith Midrash Rabbah.

“Sing and rejoice” (Zech. ii. 10).  The Holy One—­blessed be He!—­will in the future bring all the proselytes that were proselytized in this world, and judge all the nations of the world in their presence.  He will say to them, “Why have ye left Me and served idols, which are nothing?” They will reply and say, “Had we applied at Thy door, Thou wouldst not have received us.”  Then will He say to them, “Let the proselytes that were made from among you come forward and testify against you.”

P’sikta.

These are the pious female proselytes—­Hagar, Osenath, Zipporah,
Shiphrah, Puah, the daughter of Pharaoh (Bathia), Rahab, Ruth, and Jael.

Yalkut Yehoshua, 9.

“The Lord keepeth the proselytes” (Ps. cxlvi. 9).  “I esteem it a great compliment on the part of the proselyte to leave his family and his father’s house and come to Me.  Therefore I on My part will command respecting him (Deut. x. 19), ‘Love ye therefore the proselyted.’”

Midrash Shochar Tov, 146.

“I am a God near at hand” (Jer. xxiii. 23).  “I am He who drew Jethro near, and did not keep him at a distance”; therefore thou also when a man comes to be proselytized in the name of Heaven, draw him near, do not repulse him or keep him at a distance.  From this thou art to learn that while one repulses with the left hand he is to draw with the right, and not as Elisha did. (He repulsed Gehazi with both hands.)

Yalkut Jeremiah.

Showers of rain are greater than the giving of the Law, for the giving of the Law was a gladsome event to Israel only, but rain is a cause of joy to the wide world, including cattle, beasts, and fowls.

Midrash Shochar Tov, 117.

David was a shepherd of Israel, and the Shepherd of David was the Holy One—­blessed be He!—­as it is said (Ps. xxiii. 1), “The Lord is my Shepherd.”

Midrash Rabbah, chap. 59.

Rav Pinchas says, “David in the Psalms calls five times upon the Holy One—­blessed be He!—­to arise. (1.) ‘Arise, O Lord; save me, O my God!’ (Ps. iii. 7). (2.) ‘Arise, O Lord, in Thine anger!’ (Ps. vii. 6). (3.) ‘Arise, O Lord, let not man prevail!’ (Ps. ix. 19). (4.) ’Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up Thine hand:  forget not the humble!’ (Ps. x. 12). (5.) ‘Arise, O Lord; disappoint him!’ But the Holy One—­blessed be He!—­said unto David, ’My son, though thou call upon Me many a time to arise, I will not arise.  But when do I arise?  When thou seest the poor oppressed and the needy sighing, then will I arise.’” This explains what is written (Ps. xii. 5), “For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord.”