There is much Aggadic material relating to this topic. Much of this has been collected in popular form in Legends of the Jews, by Louis Ginzberg; see particularly Chapter I: The Creation of the World discussing esoteric and mystical concepts such as Paradise, and the "higher" Gan Eden.
There is much Aggadic material relating to this topic. Much of this has been collected in popular form in Legends of the Jews, by Louis Ginzberg; see particularly its first chapter discussing esoteric and mystical concepts such as Paradise, and the "higher" Gan Eden.
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Chapter I: The Creation of the World
its first chapter