Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Hours of the Day - Source Texts

Talmud Bavli Sanhedrin 38b

Rebbi Yochanan ben Chanina says: There were 12 hours to the day.

  • 1st Hour: His dust was gathered
  • 2nd Hour: He was made into a Golem (a lifeless form)
  • 3rd Hour: His limbs were stretched out
  • 4th Hour: A Neshamah was thrown into him
  • 5th Hour: He stood on his legs
  • 6th Hour: He called names (i.e. he named all the animals)
  • 7th Hour: Chava was made for him
  • 8th Hour: They went up to bed as 2 and came down as 4
  • 9th Hour: He was commanded not to eat from the tree
  • 10th Hour: He sinned
  • 11th Hour: He was judged
  • 12th Hour: He was sent off on his way

Vayikra Rabba 29:1

  • 1st Hour: Hashem decided to create Man (literally, it came up in thought)
  • 2nd Hour: He (Hashem) sought advice of the ministering angels
  • 3rd Hour: He brought together the dust
  • 4th Hour: He bound it together
  • 5th Hour: He wove it
  • 6th Hour: He made it into a Golem (a lifeless form)
  • 7th Hour: He blew a soul in to him.
  • 8th Hour: He brought him to Gan Eden
  • 9th Hour: He was commanded
  • 10th Hour: He sinned
  • 11th Hour: He was judged
  • 12th Hour: He went on his way (i.e. out of Gan Eden)

Pirkei D'Rebbi Eliezer Chapter 11

  • 1st Hour: He brought together the dust of Adam
  • 2nd Hour: He bound it together
  • 3rd Hour: He wove it
  • 4th Hour: He threw a Neshamah in to him
  • 5th Hour: He stood him up on his legs
  • 6th Hour: He called names
  • 7th Hour: Chava was made for him
  • 8th Hour: They were commanded about the fruits of the tree
  • 9th Hour: They went up to the bed 2 and came down 4
  • 10th Hour: He brought him to Gan Eden and he went against His command
  • 11th Hour: He was judged
  • 12th Hour: He was expelled

3 comments:

  1. The sixth day will see Moshiach. At the third day, Dor HaMidbar failed. One day later, almost 1,000years, the generation of Zerubavel failed. One day later, day five, there was no chance. That is the message of Erev Boker, two thousand three hundred. Instead, after Paras, Yavan, and Rome, Yismael was given the Land in the merit of his mila.

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  2. I was looking everywhere for this timeline, thank you for posting it here! Great blog btw, so glad I stumbled across it... will have to give it more attention in the future.

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