Rabbah said: Seafarers told me: This wave that sinks a ship appears with a fringe of white fire at its crest, and we strike it with clubs on which is engraved, "I Will Be What I Will Be, Yah, the LORD of Hosts, Amen, Amen, Selah," and it subsides. Rabbah said: Seafarers told me: Between one wave and another there are three hundred parasangs, and the height of a wave is three hundred parasangs. Once we were going on a journey, and a wave lifted us until we saw the resting place of a small star, and it was as large to me as an area for sowing forty se'ah of mustard seed. And had it lifted us higher, we would have been scorched by its heat. And one wave called out to its fellow: "My fellow, have you left anything in the world that you did not wash away, so that I may come and destroy it?" The other said to it: "Go out and see the might of your Master: the breadth of a thread of sand, and I do not pass it, as it is said, 'Will you not fear Me, says the LORD; will you not tremble before Me, who placed the sand as a boundary for the sea, an eternal decree that it cannot pass' (Jeremiah 5:22)."
A Journey To The Stars
Bava Batra 73a
אָמַר רַבָּה, אִשְׁתַּעוּ לִי נָחוֹתֵי יַמָּא: הַאי גַּלָּא דִּמְטַבַּע לִסְפִינָה – מִיתְחֲזֵי כִּי צוּצִיתָא דְנוּרָא חִיוּוֹרְתָּא בְּרֵישָׁא, וּמָחֵינַן לֵיהּ בְּאַלְווֹתָא דַּחֲקִיק עֲלֵיהּ – ״אֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶהְיֶה יָהּ ה׳ צְבָאוֹת אָמֵן אָמֵן סֶלָה״, וְנָיַיח. אָמַר רַבָּה, אִשְׁתַּעוּ לִי נָחוֹתֵי יַמָּא: בֵּין גַּלָּא לְגַלָּא תְּלָת מְאָה פַּרְסֵי, וְרוּמָא דְגַלָּא תְּלָת מְאָה פַּרְסֵי. זִימְנָא חֲדָא הֲוָה אָזְלִינַן בְּאוֹרְחָא, וְדַלִּינַן גַּלָּא עַד דַּחֲזֵינַן בֵּי מַרְבַּעְתֵּיהּ דְּכוֹכְבָא זוּטָא, וְהַוְיָא לִי כְּמִבְזַר אַרְבְּעִין גְּרִיוֵי בִּזְרָא דְחַרְדְּלָא. וְאִי דַּלִּינַן טְפֵי – הֲוָה מִקְּלֵינַן מֵהַבְלֵיהּ. וְרָמֵי לַהּ גַּלָּא קָלָא לַחֲבֶרְתַּהּ: ״חֲבֶירְתִּי, שְׁבַקְתְּ מִידֵּי בְּעָלְמָא דְּלָא שְׁטַפְתֵּיהּ, דְּנֵיתֵי אֲנָא וּנְאַבְּדֵיהּ?״ אָמַר לֵיהּ: ״פּוֹק חֲזִי גְּבוּרְתָּא דְּמָרִיךְ, מְלָא חוּטָא חָלָא – וְלָא עֲבַרִי, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר: ׳הַאוֹתִי לֹא תִירָאוּ נְאֻם ה׳, אִם מִפָּנַי לֹא תָחִילוּ אֲשֶׁר שַׂמְתִּי חוֹל גְּבוּל לַיָּם, חׇק עוֹלָם וְלֹא יַעַבְרֶנְהוּ׳״.