Compare Matthew 23:36 and Midrash Lekach Tov

"... the relationship between God and the people of Israel in their formative years is imagined in rabbinic texts as one in which feeding—perhaps the quintessential form of quotidian caregiving—is a complex site where frustration, nurture, love, and burden all coexist, much as they do for human caregivers. The manna of Exodus 16 is likened to mother’s milk, the Israelites’ first food after their “birth” as a nation: “Just as the breast is the primary food for the baby, and all other food is secondary, so too the manna was primary and all other food was secondary” (Pesikta Zutarta [Midrash Lekach Tov], Bamidbar Beha’alotekha). The rabbis imagine the manna itself in maternal terms, but just as importantly, they invoke the fraught activities of feeding and being fed. As if to forestall the fantasy of ever-harmonious synchronicity between nursing mother and suckling child, biblical and midrashic narratives do not envisage feeding as a site of pacific mutual exchange; they recognize the gap between the infant’s experience of being fed and the parent’s physical and emotional experience of feeding. The manna is associated with God’s munificence and nurture, but it simultaneously signifies the challenges of nurturing and the learning curve required for the divine parent: when Israel devours too much milk-manna at the wrong time, God draws limits (Exodus 16:28), just as a breastfeeding mother helps her baby learn to take milk, and learns how to give it, in the early days of their relationship ..."