Talmud sobre Job 37:2

R. Levi in the name of Bar Nazira¹²⁶Name from the parallel in the Midrash. The text here has ר׳ בזירה, an otherwise unknown person.: Thirty-six hours did Man enjoy the light that was created on the First Day of Creation¹²⁷The vanished light of the Creation is reserved for the just in the future world (Babli Ḥagigah 12a). Psalm 139 is ascribed to David in the Book of Psalms, but in all of talmudic literature it is taken to describe the experiences of Adam., twelve on Friday, twelve in the night of Sabbath, and twelve during the day of Sabbath; in this light Adam saw from one end of the world to the other. In this unending light, the entire Creation started singing God’s praise as it is said (Job 37:2), “All under the heavens sing to Him, His light is on the corners of the world.” When the Sabbath ended, darkness came. Adam was afraid that this was what was said (Gen. 3:15): “You will crush its head and it will crush your heel;” certainly it will crush me, so he said (Ps.139:11), “But the darkness will crush me.” R. Levi said: At this moment the Holy One, praised be He, let him find two flintstones that he knocked against each other¹²⁸In the Babli (Pesaḥim 54a), the discovery of man-made fire is called “a heavenly inspiration.” and made fire; that is what is said (Ps. 139:11), “Now the night is light for me,” and he praised the Creator of the illuminating fire. Samuel says: Therefore we give praise for the [man-made] fire at the end of Sabbath because that was the time of its first production.