Moses Neither Ate Nor Drank Forty Days on High

Another interpretation of (Psalms 89:7) "For who in the skies can be compared to the Lord?" If your evil inclination comes to say to you, "Who was offering sacrifices to the Holy One, blessed be He, before the world was created?" — [say to it:] Behold, Moses went up to the firmament and spent there a hundred and twenty days. Let it tell you whether they were offering sacrifices to the Holy One, blessed be He. And not only that, but he was accustomed to eating, yet once he went up to Me, [he saw that there is no eating or drinking on high]; he neither ate nor drank, [as it is said (Exodus 34:28): "And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he ate no bread and drank no water."]