Zohar 3:127b (Idra Rabba)

 

R. Simeon sat and wept, and said- Woe if I reveal! Woe if I do not reveal. The comrades who were there were silent. R. Abba rose and said to him- If it pleases the master to reveal, as it is written, “The secret of the Lord is with those who fear Him” (Ps. 25- 14), and these comrades are fearers of the Holy One, blessed be He, and they have already entered the assembly of the Tabernacle, some of them have entered and some of them have departed.

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.

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