. 5); at Sodom (Gen.
xviii. 21); in Egypt (Exod. iii. 8); at the Red Sea (Ps. xviii. 9); on
Mount Sinai (Exod. xix. 20); into the Temple (Ezek. xliv. 2); in the
pillar of cloud (Num. xi. 25). It will descend in the days of Gog and
Magog, for it is said (Zech. xiv. 4), "And His feet shall stand in that
day upon the Mount of Olives" (the tenth is omitted in the original).

Ibid.

The Shechinah made ten gradual ascents in passing from place to
place:--From the cover of the ark to the cherub (2 Sam. xxii. 11);
thence to the threshold of the house (Ezek. ix. 3); thence to the
cherubim (Ezek. x. 18); thence to the roof of the Temple (Prov. xxi. 9);
thence to the wall of the court (Amos vii. 7); thence to the altar (Amos
ix. 1); thence to the city (Micah vi. 9); thence to the mount (Ezek. xi.
23); thence to the wilderness (Prov. xxi. 9); whence the Shechinah went
up, as it is said (Hosea v. 15), "I will go and return to my place."

_Avoth d Rab. Nathan_, chap. 34.

Ten different terms are employed to express the title of
prophet:--Ambassador, Faithful, Servant, Messenger, Seer, Watchman, Seer
of Vision, Dreamer, Prophet, Man of God.

Ibid.

Ten distinct designations are applied to the Holy Spirit:--Proverb,
Interpretation, Dark, Saying, Oracle, Utterance, Decree, Burden,
Prophecy, Vision.

Ibid.

Ten are designated by the term Life or Living:--God, the law, Israel,
the righteous, the garden of Eden, the tree of life, the land of Israel,
Jerusalem, benevolence, the sages; and water also is described as life,
as it is said (Zech. xiv. 8), "And it shall be in that day that living
water shall go out from Jerusalem."

Ibid.

If there are ten beds piled upon one another, and if beneath the
lowermost there be any tissue woven of linen and wool (Lev. xix. 19), it
is unlawful to lie down upon them.

_Tamid_, fol. 27, col. 2.

Alexander of Macedon proposed ten queries to the elders of the
south:--"Which are more remote from each other, the heavens from the
earth or the east from the west?" They answered, "The east is more
remote from the west, for when the sun is either in the east or in the
west, any one can gaze upon him; but when the sun is in the zenith or
heaven, none can gaze at him, he is so much nearer." The Mishnaic
Rabbis, on the other hand, say they are equidistant; for it is written
(Ps. ciii. 11, 12), "As the heavens are from the earth, ... so is the
east removed from the west." Alexander then asked, "Were