Thoughts Negligible

On that Day Rabbi Eliezar brought forward every imaginable argument, but they [the rabbis] did not accept them. Said he to them: "If the halakhah agrees with me, let this carob tree prove it!" Thereupon the carob tree was torn a hundred cubits out of its place--others affirm, four hundred cubits. "No proof can be brought from a carob tree," they retorted. Again he said to them: "If the halakhah agrees with me, let the stream of water prove it!" Whereupon the stream of water flowed backward. "No proof can be brought from a stream of water," they rejoined. Again he urged: "If the halakhah agrees with me, let the walls of the schoolhouse prove it," whereupon the walls inclined to fall. But Rabbi Joshua rebuked them, saying: "When scholars are engaged in a halakhic dispute, what have ye to interfere?" Hence they did not fall, in honor of Rabbi Joshua, nor did they resume the upright, in honor of Rabbi Eliezer; and they are still standing thus inclined. Again he said to them: "If the halakhah agrees with me, let it be proved from heaven!" Whereupon a heavenly voice cried out: "Why do ye dispute with Rabbi Eliezer, seeing that in all matters the halkhah agrees with him!" But Rabbi Joshua arose and exclaimed: "It is not in heaven" (Deut 30.12). What did he mean by this?--Said Rabbi Jeremiah: That the Torah had already been given at Mount Sinai; we pay no attention to a heavenly voice, because Thou hast long since written in the Torah at Mount Sinai, After the majority must one incline (Ex 23.2)

Rabbi Nathan met Elijah and asked him: What did the Holy One, Blessed be He, do in that hour?--He laughed [with joy], he replied, saying, "My sons have defeated Me, My sons have defeated Me."