Psalm 139:15

Hebrew Bible

14 I will give you thanks because your deeds are awesome and amazing. You knew me thoroughly; 15 my frame* was not hidden from you, when I was made in secret and sewed together in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw me when I was inside the womb. All the days ordained for me were recorded in your scroll before one of them came into existence. 17 How difficult it is for me to fathom your thoughts about me, O God! How vast is their sum total.

Genesis Rabbah 24:2

Aggadah
Rabbinic

... Rabbi Tanchuma in the name of Rabbi Banayah and Rabbi B’rakhyah in the name of Rabbi Elazar said: In the time that the Holy One created Adam Harishon, as a golem He created him, and he was set up from one end of the world and unto its other end—that’s what is written: “Your eyes saw my golem.”

 Notes and References

"... 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 ..."

Orlov, Andrei A. Golem’s Education: Descent Pedagogy in the Apocalypse of Abraham (pp. 1-34) Marquette University, 2024

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