“R. Simeon said- I raised my hands in prayer to the supernal Holy One so that these matters would be revealed by me in the world as they are hidden in my heart.”

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.