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Women need perfumes, while men do not; dust of the ground remains the same no matter how long it is kept; flesh, however, requires salt to keep it in good condition
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For the souls of the departed must go through seven portals before they arrive in the heaven 'Arabot
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She made a compromise with her conscience
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Each day of creation brought forth three things: the first, heaven, earth, and light; the second, the firmament, Gehenna, and the angels; the third, trees, herbs, and Paradise; the fourth, sun, moon, and stars; and the fifth, fishes, birds, and leviathan
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Only on the Sabbath, when all creation rested, the beings on earth and in heaven, all together, broke into song and adoration when God ascended His throne and sate upon it.[100] It was the Throne of Joy upon which He sate, and He had all the angels pass before
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The penance which Adam and Eve laid upon themselves awakened misgivings in Satan
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On the third day after he had offered up this prayer, while he was sitting on the banks of the river that flows forth out of Paradise, there appeared to him, in the heat of the day, the angel Raziel, bearing a book in his hand
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In the moment when Adam took the book, a flame of fire shot up from near the river, and the angel rose heavenward with it
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Adam bade Eve go with Seth to the gates of Paradise and entreat God to have mercy upon him, and send His angel to catch up some of the oil of life flowing from the tree of His mercy and give it to his messengers
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Arrived at the gates of Paradise, Eve and Seth began to cry bitterly, and they besought God with many lamentations to give them oil from the tree of His mercy
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While Eve was on her knees in prayer, an angel came,[132] and bade her rise
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The interval between Adam's death and her own Eve spent in weeping
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The slaying of Abel by Cain did not come as a wholly unexpected event to his parents
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Adam was terrified, particularly by the flames of the ever-turning sword, which is on this earth
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In the Ge, the fourth earth, live the generation of the Tower of Babel and their descendants
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If it happened to be an edible, he was to prepare it and serve it with much ceremony
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While all these abominations defiled the earth, the pious Enoch lived in a secret place
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Trembling seized upon them, and they implored Enoch to set up a petition for them and read it to the Lord of heaven, for they could not speak with God as aforetime, nor even raise their eyes heavenward, for shame on account of their sins
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The impression made by the teachings of Enoch upon all who heard them was powerful
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He saw the fifteen myriads of angels who go out with the sun, and attend him during the day, and the thousand angels who attend him by night
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God called then one of His archangels who was more wise than all the others, and wrote down all the doings of the Lord, and He said to him, "Bring forth the books from My store-place, and give a reed to Enoch, and interpret the books to him." The angel did as
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Enoch was then sent to earth to remain there for thirty days to instruct his sons, but before he left heaven, God sent an angel to him whose appearance was like snow, and his hands were like ice
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When Enoch, under the guidance of the angel 'Anpiel, was carried from earth to heaven, the holy beings, the ofanim, the seraphim, the cherubim, all those who move the throne of God, and the ministering spirits whose substance is of consuming fire, they all, at
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the heavens concerning him, who was henceforth to be called Metatron in the celestial regions: "I have appointed My servant Metatron as prince and chief over all the princes in My realm, with the exception only of the eight august and exalted princes that bear
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Even the princes of the heavens, when they see Metatron, tremble before him, and prostrate themselves; his magnificence and majesty, the splendor and beauty radiating from him overwhelm them, even the wicked Samael, the greatest of them, even Gabriel the angel
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So far from observing his precepts, they pursued the evil inclination of their hearts, and perpetrated all sorts of abominable deeds.[8] Chiefly the fallen angels and their giant posterity caused the depravity of mankind
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The fall of Azazel and Shemhazai came about in this way
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They were born after a few days' pregnancy, and immediately after birth they could walk and talk; they themselves aided the mother in severing the navel string
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I will give thee a remedy that will help thee against him, for it was at My instance that he went to thee." Adam asked, "And what is this remedy?" God: "The Torah." Adam: "And where is the Torah?" God then gave him the book of the angel Raziel, which he studie
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In the year 1569 after the creation of the world, Noah divided the earth by lot among his three sons, in the presence of an angel
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f Noah and their children's children taken possession of the habitations apportioned to them, than the unclean spirits began to seduce men and torment them with pain and all sorts of suffering leading to spiritual and physical death
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Many perished in this manner, and the rest were punished according to the nature of their rebellious conduct
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His birth had been read in the stars by Nimrod,[7] for this impious king was a cunning astrologer, and it was manifest to him that a man would be born in his day who would rise up against him and triumphantly give the lie to his religion
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Thus Abraham was deserted in the cave, without a nurse, and he began to wail
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Wherefore art thou in fear by reason of a little child?
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This advice given by Satan the king accepted and followed
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The old woman had to pay for her zeal for the faith with her life
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Now the king was exceedingly wroth at Abraham, and ordered him to be cast into prison, where he commanded the warden not to give him bread or water.[28] But God hearkened unto the prayer of Abraham, and sent Gabriel to him in his dungeon
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Nimrod, however, was not to be turned aside from his purpose, to make Abraham suffer death by fire
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No water was needed to extinguish the fire
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Abraham went thence to his mother, and he spoke to her, saying: "Behold, my father has shown those unto me who made heaven and earth and all the sons of men
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An angel appeared unto Sarah while she was in the presence of the king, to whom he was not visible, and he bade her take courage, saying, "Fear naught, Sarah, for God hath heard thy prayer." The king questioned Sarah as to the man in the company of whom she ha
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His free-handed generosity availed naught
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of the kings, from which Abraham emerged victorious, happened on the fifteenth of Nisan, the night appointed for miraculous deeds.[94] The arrows and stones hurled at him effected naught,[95] but the dust of the ground, the chaff, and the stubble which he thre
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His victory was possible only because the celestial powers espoused his side
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While he was preparing these sacrifices, a vision of great import was granted to Abraham
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Being of the truly pious, "who promise little, but perform much,"[133] Abraham said only: "I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your heart, seeing that ye chanced to pass my tent at dinner time
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This communication, which was intended for Sarah and not for Abraham, to whom the promise had been revealed long before,[147] the angels made at the entrance to her tent, but Ishmael stood between the angel and Sarah, for it would not have been seemly to deliv
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