מלכים א י״ז:י״ז-כ״ד

חלה בן האשה. כדי שיצטרך למפתח של תחיית המתים, כדאיתא בשילהי אגדתא דחלק (סנהדרין קיג א):

Illness struck the son of the woman. So that he should need the Key of Resurrection of the Dead, as stated at the end of the Aggadah of [the chapter entitled] “Cheilek.”¹¹Maseches Sanhedrin 113a.

להזכיר את עוני. עד שלא באת אלי, היו שוקלין מעשי ומעשה עירי, והייתי ראוי לנס, משבאת לכאן, לא נחשבתי לכלום, ואין צדקתי ניכרת (ספרים אחרים נזכרת), וכן בלוט הוא אומר (בראשית יט יט): ואנכי לא אוכל להמלט ההרה, אצל אברהם, שלא תהא זכותי נזכרת אצלו (בראשית רבה נ יא):

To cause my sins to be remembered. Before you came, they would weigh my deeds and the deeds of my city, and I was worthy of a miracle. But since you came here, I am not reckoned with as [being worthy of] anything and my righteousness is not noticeable.¹²Before you came I was no worse than my neighbors, but compared to you I am a sinner.—Ralbag ¹³Alternatively, she said that her sins were being remembered because she had not properly served Eliyahu, and that is why her son died.—Radak (Other texts: Remembered) And similarly, concerning Lot it states, “I cannot escape to the mountain,”¹⁴Bereishis 19:19. [i.e., referring] to Avrohom, for my merit will not be remembered next to his.¹⁵Bereishis Rabboh 50:11.

ויתמודד. מלשון מדה, נשתטח עליו:

He spread himself out. [ויתמודד is] an expression of מדה, [i.e.,] he spread himself upon him.¹⁶Eliyahu prostrated himself in the same manner as Elisha did, in the case of Shunamis’ son. He placed his eyes on the youth’s eyes, and his mouth on the youth’s mouth, in II Melochim 4:34.—Radak