Divine voice

3 texts

The bat kol, the echo of prophecy that continued after the last prophets fell silent, and the voice from heaven that still speaks.

A Voice from Heaven Calls Abraham Out of Terah's House

Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha

Abraham was still speaking to his father Terah in the courtyard of the house when a voice came down from heaven. Not a whisper. Not an intuition. A voice, falling from the sky in a...

God Shows Abraham the Seven Firmaments from Above

Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha

A voice came from the midst of the fire. "Abraham, Abraham!" "Here I am." "Consider the expanses beneath the firmament on which you are now placed, and see that on no single expans...

The Rabbis Overrule God at the Oven of Akhnai

Talmud Aggadah Midrash Aggadah

The rabbis once overruled God—and God laughed. According to Bava Metzia 59b, the incident began with an argument about an oven. Rabbi Eliezer declared a certain oven ritually pure....