"... Some Jewish legends relate that Adam, in his state as a lifeless mass, or a golem, was uniquely educated by the deity. This divine instruction included a comprehensive vision of the entire human history. (A reference to this vision may be hinted already in Psalm 139:15-16, where a possible reference to Adam’s golem coincides with the revelation about all days of humankind: “My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes beheld my unformed substance. In your book were written all the days that were formed for me, when none of them as yet existed.”) Later Jewish mystics often received a similar vision on the heavenly curtain Pargod, which showed them the course of human history together with all its generations and leaders. According to Scholem, “even before Adam has speech and reason, he beholds a vision of the history of Creation, which passes before him in images.” Genesis Rabbah 24:2 underlines the comprehensiveness of this revelation when it tells that the first-formed beheld every generation and its sages, judges, scribes, interpreters, and leaders ..."