...righteousness comes from God alone, he referred to this gathering together of the waters as proof. "Who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth,...the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it, and prescribed for it my decree, and set bars and doors, and said, Hitherto...

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...upon itî Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner-stone thereof? Or who shut up the Sea with doors, when it brake forth as if it had issued out of the womb1? and brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, and said, Hitherto shalt thou...

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...the waters of the sea together as a heap: he lays up the depth in storehouses. Psalm 33:6-7 (God) . . .made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it. . . . Job 38:9 You have formed the earth and the world. Psalm 90:2 "...and let the dry land appear......

...we can only feel blindly of its hem. In making the thick darkness a swaddling band for the sea, God "set bars and doors" and said, "Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further." But have we come even that far? Have we rowed out to the thick darkness, or are we all playing pinochle...

...swaddling band for it.'" l. The complete passage quoted from in the Yetziratic Text runs as follows; "Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth,...the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it, and brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors. And said. Hitherto...