8 passagesmedieval; trans. 1893Hebrew (medieval)unknown
Individual passages from Hebrew Visions of Hell and Paradise, indexed for close reading, source verification, and myth source-checking.
Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi was so beloved for his piety that when his hour came, the Holy One instructed the angel of death to grant him any wish he asked. The angel came and told him...
Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi described the entrance to Gan Eden as two gates carved from carbuncle, watched over by six hundred thousand ministering angels, every one of them shining wi...
Among the wonders Moshe reported from the heights was a river unlike any on earth, called Rigyon, a stream of pure fire that pours out from beneath the throne of glory. It is fed, ...
When Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi was asked to map the hidden country he had entered, he walked through Gan Eden and counted seven chambers, each a perfect square of vast measure, every...
Of all the chambers Rabbi Yehoshua described, the fifth is the most tender. Its walls shine with silver, gold, crystal, and bdellium, the river Gihon runs through its center, and a...
When Moshe had climbed through seven heavens and stood before the treasures of the Holy One, a final privilege was held out to him. The Almighty told him that two domains had been ...
Inside Gehinnom Moshe came upon crowds of the guilty in the grip of the angels of destruction, and the sight of their suffering was almost too much to bear. Some hung by their eyel...
Moshe walked deeper into Gehinnom and the punishments grew stranger and more measured. He found two figures hung upside down by their feet, their bodies blanketed in black worms so...
