At midnight R. Abba and the rest of the comrades rose to be occupied in [the study of] Torah. R. Abba said- from here on let us say words to crown the righteous in the Garden of Eden, for now is the time that the Holy One, blessed be He, and the righteous in the Garden of Eden listen for the voices of the righteous who are on earth.

Translated by Elliot Wolfson in “Forms of Visionary Ascent and Ecstatic Experience,” in Gershom Scholem’s Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism 50 Years After 209-235. Edited by J. Dan and P. Schafer, Tubingen- J. C. B. Mohr, 1993.