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Louis Ginzberg - Legends of the Jews
Identifier
001829
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Marc Chagall
A description of the experience
Louis Ginzberg - Legends of the Jews
In Paradise stands the tree of life and the tree of knowledge, the latter forming a hedge around the former. Only he who have cleared a path for himself though the tree of knowledge can come close to the tree of life, which is so great that it would take a man five hundred years to travel the distance equal to the diameter of the trunk, and no less vast is the space shaded by its crown of branches. From beneath it flows forth water that irrigates the whole earth