Adam's Radiant Heel That Outshone the Sun

[Another interpretation of (Ecclesiastes 8:1): "Who is like the wise man?" This is Adam the first man, for it is written concerning him, "You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom" (Ezekiel 28:12). "And who knows the interpretation of a word?" — for he explained the names for all the creatures, as it is said, "And Adam called names to all the cattle" (Genesis 2:20). "A man's wisdom lights up his face" — Rabbi Levi said in the name of Rabbi Shimon ben Menasya: the round of the heel of Adam the first man would dim the sphere of the sun. And do not be astonished at this, for by the way of the world a man makes two platters, one for himself and one for a member of his household; whose does he make beautiful — is it not his own? So too Adam the first man was created for his own use, and the sphere of the sun for the use of the creatures. Is it not all the more so that the round of his heel would dim the sphere of the sun? And if his heel was like this, the radiance of his face all the more so.]