Rav Eliyahu Luantz
My master and teacher, Rabbi Akiva of Frankfurt, once related the following chiddish (novel Torah insight) during one of his derashos:
Why did Chazal establish the nusach for “Mashiv haruach v’morid hageshem – He Who blows the wind and sends down the rains,” in the beracha, “Atah Gibor” (the second beracha of the Amidah) which discusses the resurrection of the dead?
The answer is, that this too refers to death, “mashiv ha’ruach,” can also be translated as “the ruach, or spirit, returns to Elokim, Who gave it,” (Koheles 12:7) and “morid ha’geshem,” the physical, gashmiyus part of the person, goes down below to the earth as it says (ibid), “the dust returns down to the ground.”
(Cited by his talmid, Rabbi Eliyahu Luantz, Baal Shem of Worms in his sefer Michlal Yofi on Koheles 12:7)
