Another thing, I will bless the Lord. As for this soul, no one knows its place and where it is situated. So too, the Holy One, blessed be He, no creation knows His place, even the divine beasts that are positioned at the Throne of Glory do not know His place and where He is situated. And what do they say?
"Blessed be the glory of the Lord from His place." (Ezekiel 3:12) There was a story about a man who asked Rabbi Gamliel, "In what place is He situated?" He replied, "I do not know." The man said to him, "Is this your prayer and wisdom, that you pray before Him every day and yet you do not know where He is situated?" Rabbi Gamliel said to him, "You ask me about a matter that is distant from me by a five hundred year journey.
Yet, I will ask you about one matter that is with you day and night. Tell me, in what place is it situated?" The man said to him, "Who is it?" Rabbi Gamliel replied, "It is the soul that is situated within you.
Tell me in what place it is situated." The man said to him, "I do not know." Rabbi Gamliel said to him, "May the spirit of that man perish, for what is this that is situated within you and you do not know its place? Yet, you ask me about a matter that is distant from me by a five hundred year journey?"
The man said to him, "If that is so, then they do well who prostrate themselves to His work, for they behold Him at all times." Rabbi Gamliel said to him, "You see His work, but they do not see you. And the Holy One, blessed be He, beholds His work, but His work does not behold Him, as it is stated: 'For man may not see Me and live' (Exodus 33:20). Know that this is what happened to Ezekiel, for when he saw His likeness, his soul departed from him, as it is stated: 'And I saw, and I fell upon my face' (Ezekiel 1:28)."