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Zohar 1:94b

Jewish Mysticism
Thus it was that on that day the colleagues (havrayya’) saw the face of the Shekhinah and they were encompassed by fire. The face of R. Abba was burning like a flame from the joy of Torah. It has been taught- that whole day none of them left the house and the house was bounded by smoke. Amongst themselves they were innovating words of Torah as if on that very day they had received the Torah on Mount Sinai.

Translated by Elliot Wolfson in Through a Speculum that Shines- Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism, Princeton- Princeton University Press, 1994.

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