Tradition teaches that Rabbi Yossi said: — The Shechinah has never descended below, nor did Moses and Elijah ever ascend on high; for it is said (Ps. cxv. 16), " The heavens, even the heavens, are the Lords; but the earth hath he given to the children of men.w True, it is written, he admitted (Exod. xix. 20), "And the Lord came down upon Mount Sinai; but that, he remarked, was ten handbreadths above the summit. And true, too, is it written (Zech. xiv. 4), " And His feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives; ■ but that, too, he added, is ten handbreadths above it. And so, in like manner,