_Aspects, en passim_; Abelson, _Immanence of God_, p. 77 _et
seq._

(10) Mal. III, 16.

(11) Lam. III, 27.

4. R. Simeon (12) said, "If three have eaten at a table and have
spoken there no words of _Torah_, it is as if they had eaten of
sacrifices to dead idols, of whom it is said, 'For all their tables
are full of vomit and filthiness; the All-present is not (in their
thoughts)' (13). But if three have eaten at a table and have spoken
there words of _Torah_, it is as if they had eaten at the table of the
All-present, for Scripture says, 'And he said unto me, This is the
table that is before the Lord'" (14).

(12) Rabbi Simeon ben Yochai lived about the middle of the
second century C.E., and was a pupil of Akiba. See Danziger,
_ibid._, pp. 211-241. He was long thought to be the author of
the well-known kabbalistic work _Zohar_, which was, however,
probably written in the thirteenth century by Moses Shem Tob
de Leon. See the _Jewish Encyclopedia_, art. _Zohar;_ Graetz,
_History_, IV, p. 11 _et seq.;_ Schechter, _Studies_, I, pp.
18, 19, 133; and H. Sperling, in _Aspects of the Hebrew
Genius_, p. 165 _et seq._

(13) Isa. XXVIII, 8. The literal interpretation of [bli
makom] is, there is "no place" clean of defilement; but the
word [makom] being used to designate God (see above, chapter
II, n. 35), suggests the interpretation, "without mention of