Talmud zu Könige II 3:11

³²Babli 53a. The entire Yerushalmi text is copied there by R. Ḥananel. Rebbi Joḥanan in the name of Rebbi Hoshaia: one adds a limb to it. ³³The text is parallel to Sanhedrin 11:6, Notes 68–69. He lifted his eyes and looked at him. He told him, why are you looking at me? Do I need you that you enjoy it? Thirteen years he went and came before his teacher even though he did not need him. Rebbi Samuel in the name of Rebbi Zeˋira: Was it not enough for him to have paid his respects to his teacher since anybody who pays his respects to his teacher is as if he paid his respects to the Divine Presence. Rebbi Berekhiah, Rebbi Jeremiah in the name of Rebbi Ḥiyya bar Abba. It is written³⁴Ex. 33:7. and Moses would take the Tent, etc. How far away was it? One mil³⁵2’000 cubits. Ex. rabba 45(4).. It is not written “and it was that anybody asking Moses” but and it was that anybody asking the Eternal. From here that anybody visiting his teacher is as if he was visiting the Divine Presence. Rebbi Ḥelbo, Rebbi³⁶Read: Rav. Ḥuna in the name of Rav: It is written³⁷1K. 17:1. The verse continues: By the Living Eternal … before Whom I stood., Eliahu from Tisbe said, etc. Was not Eliahu the ruler³⁸Greek τύραννος, ὁ (Arukh טרן 3). of the prophets? But it teaches that all the time he was standing before his teacher Aḥiyya from Shilo it was as if he stood before the Divine Presence. Rebbi Ḥelbo in the name of those of the House of Shilo: Even when Eliahu wanted water for his face Elisha would put it on his hands. What is the reason? Here is Elisha ben Shafaṭ³⁹2K. 3:11., it is not written here “who studied Torah”, but who poured water on Eliahu’s hands. It is written⁴⁰IS. 3:1.: The lad Samuel was serving the Eternal before Eli. Did he not only serve Eli? But this teaches that all service which he rendered before his teacher Eli was as if he rendered if before the Divine Presence. Rebbi Ismael stated⁴¹Ex. 18:12. Mekhilta dR. Ismael Yitro Parašah 1 (ed. Horovitz-Rabin p. 196).: And Aaron and all the Elders of Israel came to eat bread with Moses’s father-in-law before god. Did they eat before God? But from here that anyone who receives a friend⁴²In editio princeps of Mekhilta: Sages; similarly Babli Berakhot 64a. is as if he received the Divine Presence.