시편 68:5의 탈무드

⁹²Gen. rabba 12(9), 1(7). Babli 16a. Rebbi Yudan the Patriarch asked Rebbi Samuel bar Naḥman: What means that which is written, Prepare a way for the rider on clouds, His name YH, and jubilate before Him⁹³Ps. 68:5.. He told him, there is no place which does not have one appointed over its life⁹⁴An otherwise undocumented feminine of Greek m. βίος “life”.. And who is appointed over the lives of all? The Holy One, praise to Him. His name YH, His name: Βια. Rebbi Eleazar told him, your teacher⁹⁵R. Jonathan. was not explaining in this way, but {a parable} of a king who built a palace on a place of sewers, a place of dung heaps, a place which stinks. One who comes and says, this palace is at a place of sewers, a place of dung heaps, a place which stinks, does he not detract? So he detracts who says, originally the world was water in water⁹The original meaning of דרש “to investigate” has been changed into the later Amoraic-Medieval “to preach” and the interpretation of the Mishnah changed accordingly.. {A parable} of a king’s orchard and an observation deck built on it, to look at it but not to touch⁹⁶The orchard is the world, the observation deck is Scripture, which may be enjoyed but may not be used to gain knowledge of the working of the Creation; forbidding Gnosticism..