ליטעראַטור פֿון בית שני אויף בראשית 18:27

[30] And the watchful pen of Moses has recorded this my soul’s condition in his memorial of me. For Abraham, he says, drew near and said, ‘Now I have begun to speak to the Lord, and I am earth and ashes’ (Gen. 18:27), since it is just when he knows his own nothingness that the creature should come into the presence of his Maker.

[161] And then they that have come to Him recognize His blessedness and their own meanness; for Abraham when he drew nigh to God straightway knew himself to be earth and ashes (Gen. 18:27).

[214] Let us see in what way this is true. When the great High-priest was about to perform the public services enjoined by law, the holy word required that he should in the first place sprinkle himself with water and ashes (Ex. 29:4)  as a reminder to him of himself—for even that wise one, Abraham, when he was on his way to intercede with God, spoke of himself as earth and ashes (Gen. 18:27)—in the next place that he should put on the tunic reaching to the feet, and over it that which he has entitled the embroidered or variegated breastplate (Ex. 29:5), a representation and copy of the shining constellations.