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Hekhalot Zutarti

היכלות זוטרתי

R. Akiva (pseudepigraphic) · 5th–9th century CE (contested); some material argued to be older

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Jewish mysticism and Kabbalah
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Shorter, denser and more magical than the Greater Palaces, turning on the disclosure of divine names. It carries the water vision: the warning that when the one who descends reaches the stones of pure marble he must not cry 'water, water'.

The same warning appears with R. Akiva in Hagigah 14b, one of the few visible points of contact between a Hekhalot text and a Talmudic passage.