Prince of the Torah
(§297) Rabbi Ishmael said: Thus said Rabbi Akiba to me in the name of Rabbi Eliezer the Great: Our fathers had not taken it upon themselves to put one stone on top of another in the Temple of YHWH [cf. Haggai 2:15] until they compelled and obliged the King of the universe and all His servants to reveal to them the secret of the Torah: how it is…
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Work of the Chariot
Ma‘aseh merkavah, §544-546
(§544) Rabbi Ishmael said: I asked of Rabbi Akiba the prayer that one recites {when he ascends to the Merkavah,} {and I asked of him} the praise of RWZYY, Lord, God of Israel—who knows what it is? He…
3 Enoch
3 Enoch 1:1-1:4; 3:1-4:5
Rabbi Ishmael said: When I ascended to the height to behold the vision of the chariot, I entered six palaces, one inside the other, and when I reached the door of the seventh palace I paused in prayer…
Seal of the Chariot
Ḥotam ha-merkavah
. . . the stake, at the top of which the fabric of the world was tied. Then the top of the stake struck the weave of the web [on which the] world in its completeness stands. And it split it…
Chapters of the Fathers according to R. Nathan
Avot de-Rabbi Natan, Chapter 14
R. Yoḥanan ben Zakkai had five students. He gave names to each of them. He called Eliezer ben Hyrcanus a cemented cistern that does not lose a drop, a tarred pitcher that…
Measure of the Divine Body
Shi‘ur komah
Blessed art Thou, O Lord, our God, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, the great, mighty and awesome God, the exalted God, the Creator of heaven and earth. You are He Who is the…
Book on the Eclipses of the Moon and the Sun
Chapters 1, 2, 4, 9
In the name of God, I begin Māshāʼallāh’s Book on the Eclipses of the Moon and the Sun, the Conjunctions of the Planets, and the Revolutions of the Years. It has 12 chapters. [ . . . ]
First chapter…