The Ways of Metatron

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Te Ways of Metatron(Hilchot Metatron)A Book of Enoch

by Eleazar of Worms

First English EditionTranslation by Jonathan M Stein Esq



Editors Note

ldquo And although the Holy One Blessed be He is not seen we must believe that He isrdquoEleazar of Worms Sod Ha-Yichud

e material you are holding in your hands contains the first published English translation of ldquoe Ways ofMetatronrdquo (Hilchot Metatron in Hebrew) by Eleazar of Worms (Eleazar Rokeach [1176-1238 CE]) On thesurface this selection recounts the circumstances of the Biblical Patriarch Enoch ben Jaredrsquos ascent to Heavenand ldquotranslationrdquo into the Angel Metatron along with other biographical anecdotes ldquodictatedrdquo by Metatronhimself Like an iceberg however most of the substance is below the surface us I have endeavored to provide my readers with a translation that is less idiomatic and more a rendering of the biblical Hebrew sourcematerial (as much as that is possible)Come and seehellip

e canonized TaNaKh (Jewish Bible) has very little to say about Enoch

And Jared lived a hundred and sixty two years and he begot Enoch And Jared lived a983040er he hadbegotten Enoch eight hundred years and he begot sons and daughters And all the days of Jared werenine hundred and sixty two years and hedied And Enoch lived sixty five years and he begotMethuselah And Enoch walked with God a983040er he had begotten Methuselah three hundred years andhe begot sons and daughters And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty five years AndEnoch walked with God andhe was no longer for God had taken him(emphasis added)Bereishit (Genesis) 518-24

What happened to Enoch Of Jared and the other Patriarchs mentioned in this genealogy it is stated that theydied But Enoch ldquo was no longer for God had taken himrdquo It does not speak of his death per se is linguistic

quirk lead to much speculation ldquoBooks of Enochrdquo treatises on Enoch his fate and his secrets were rumored tobe existent ndash such books were referenced in and by sources such as the Zohar the writings of Rabbi ChaimVital (1543-1620 CE) and Epistles from the Christian Bible Dr John Dee (1527-1608 CE) special advisorto Queen Elizabeth I was so infatuated with Enoch and Enochrsquos fabled secrets that he spent the greater part ofthe 1580rsquos attempting to uncover them byhellip ldquoother ldquomeans

In 1773 James Bruce a famous Scottish traveler returned to Europe from Ethiopia with three copies of whatlater became known as I Enoch (written in the Gersquoez [Ethiopic] language) one of which is currently preservedin the Bodleian Library at Oxford e antiquity of I Enoch (Second Temple Period) was confirmed by thediscovery of Aramaic fragments at Qumran in 1948 However the Qumran fragments represent but a smallfragment of the greater Ethiopic work and are largely damaged and unreadable us the bulk of the content

of the original remains a mystery A Second Book of Enoch (2 Enoch or ldquoe Secrets of Enochrdquo) wasdiscovered in various Slavonic manuscripts dating from 1300 to 1700 Although earlier Coptic fragments wereidentified in 2009 no existent Aramaic fragments have been discovered It should be noted that Aramaicmanuscripts are an important gauge of Second TempleJewish Antiquity because Aramaic was the ldquolayrdquolanguage of the period (as opposed to the formal Biblical Hebrew of scripture) and the most likely language tobe employed by Jewish sources of that period



3 Enoch is most salient for the purposes of the instant work 3 Enoch appears to be originally written inHebrew and exists in MS Oxford Oppenheimer 556 (thebasisfor Hugo Odebergrsquos 1928 English translation)However Gershom Scholem ndash well known for his academic scholarship on the Kabbalah ndash inOrientalistische Literaturzeiung 33 (1930) showed that that MS 556 is unreliable Portions of this manuscript appear in theVaticanrsquos collection V228 and New YorkEMC 255 Note that I cite Scholem for his scholarship only ndash he wasempathically not a ldquomysticrdquo nor does he claim to have ever practiced any of the material he critiqued

Rabbi Eleazarrsquos materials translated herein appear in British Museum Margoliouth MS 737 and are written inBiblical Hebrew clearly re-copied from earlier source material It can thereby be deduced that this material is ofthe greatest antiquity available to us today (for these Enochian materials) e authenticity andusefulness (forthe Kabbalist or mystic) of this work is implicit due to the mere fact that it was selected by Rabbi Eleazar foruse and dissemination in his closed esoteric circle of Kabbalists ndash the Hassidei Ashkenaz is material has notbeen available in English ndash until now

e material - e Ways of Metatron ndash is a small selection that tracks the core portions of 3 Enoch andincludes additional materials in the form of Baraitas (external Mishnayot) Scholars will certainly be intriguedby the use of language ndash in comparison to the other manuscripts and Odebergrsquos English work ndash and the

supplemental materials supplied by Rabbi Eleazar e same applies to contemporary self-styled mystics of theldquoWestern Traditionrdquo I suggest reading the material several times and meditating on the deeper meaningstherein It should also be noted that this selection is representative of materials existent in the pre-ZoharicldquoKabbalahrdquo

For the novice this translation ndash due to its length and content ndash provides an excellent introduction to the Jewish esoteric schools of antiquity in contrast to the contemporary Zohar based (and I use this attributionloosely) teachings calling itself ldquoTHE Kabbalahrdquo prevalent in pop culture (think ldquoMadonnardquo)

So without further ado I present you with the first published English translation of ldquoe Ways of Metatronrdquo

__________________________

Jonathan M Stein Esq ndash Editor

July 21 2011

NB Bracketed text and text in parensare not part of the text and have been added for explanation and ease ofreading



Te Ways of Metatron(Hilchot Metatron)

הלכ מטט

Said Rabbi Ishmael I asked the minister Metatron to write down everything that was written about the headof angels (lsquosar hapnimrsquo lit in modern Hebrew lsquominister of interiorrsquo) I said to him what is your name[Metatron] said I have seventy names against seventy nations in the world like the name of my King but myKing calls me youngster (also could be ldquoYouthrdquoor ldquoLadrdquo)

Said Rabbi Ishmael I asked Metatron since you are being called by God in seventy names and you are greaterthan all ministers and higher than all angels and wiser than all servants and [more] honored than all hostsand dearer than all soldiers in kingship and in honor and in greatness why do they call you youngster inHeaven

Said [Metatron] because I am Enoch ben (ldquoson ofrdquo) Jared that when the generation of the Flood sinned andtransgressed in deeds and said to God leave us and knowing your path we do not wish [to follow] God raisedus (lit probably speaking of himself in the plural) from among those [victims of the Flood] on Earth to be a witness in Heaven of [the deeds] for every living soul in the world so that none will saylsquomerciful and cruel He (God) is what sin have these people [of the flood generation] done And if they havesinned their sons anddaughters their horses and mules and their livestock and property and every animal thathas been in the world what sin have they done so that they were killed with them and God has vanished themfrom the worldrsquoerefore the Holy One Blessed be He raised me to Heaven in front of their eyes to be a witness about themin the world to come and God placed me as a minister and a ruler of the ministering angels At the time Heraised me to Heaven three angels from those of Aza and Azael (these are the ldquofallen angelsrdquo spoken of in I

Enoch) came and were there [viciously] denouncing me saying to the Holy One Blessed be HelsquoMaster of the Universe were not those prior [Angels who came to] to you ([sic] literally) right in saying not tocreate a human being God answered saying to them I did [create Man] and will suffer and escape Once they[the angels] saw me [Enoch] they asked Him what is the nature of this [being] who came up to the sky Is henot from the sons of the sons of these who were punished in the Flood His place is here in HeavenGod answered [to the angels] what is your place that you interrupt my words I want him more than you allto be a head of the angels in Heaven [Upon this] all promptly stood and welcomed me bowed to me and saidblessed are you and blessed are your parents that God wanted (alternatively ldquodesiresrdquo) you and because I amsmall among them and young in years they call me ldquoyoungsterrdquo

Said Rabbi Ishmael Metatron head of the angels told me [that] on the day God expelled Adam fromParadise [the] Divine spirit (the Shechina or Divine Presence) was present on a cherub (compare to the Holy

Ark where the same dwelled between two Cherubim (Keruvim) on the cover of the Ark (the ldquoMercy Seatrdquo)Generally the two Cherubim there are thought to be or represent Metatron and Sandalphon) under the Treeof Life and the ministering angels were gathering coming and going down groups and groups from Heavenbands and bands droves and droves to do Godrsquos will throughout the whole world and Adam and Eve [were]sitting [outside the Gates of the Garden] there to look upon the brightness of the Divine spirit since thebrightness of the Divine spirit traverses the entire world from end to end and [is] even 365 thousand timesbrighter in the sun [because for] anyone who embraces (alternatively ldquousesrdquo) the brightness of the Divine spirit



there are no flies and no mosquitoes on him and he is not sick and feels no sorrow and no harm[ful thing] candamage him and no longer [can] even the angels rule him And when the Holy One Blessed be He got out ofEden to the [lower] garden (lit) and from the [lower] garden to Heaven and from Heaven to the [higher]garden all were looking at the brightness of the Divine spirit and were not damaged until the arriv[al of] thegeneration of Enoshe head of all idol worshipers in the world What the generation of Enoshe was doing was walking from the end of the world to its end each and everyone collecting silver gold and gemstones and

pearls in the mountains and in the hills (a deeper meaning here could be that they were collecting these thingsfor occult purposes and use) and [they] were idol-worshiping with the Four World-Winds (winds of the world) and were positioning him (Enoshe) within the Four World-Winds of paganism measured as 1000 parasangs and were bringing down the sun and moon stars and zodiac-signs and putting all in front of themto their right and to their le983040 to serve them in the same way that they served God in the past (acts of sorcery)as it written (Kings A 22 19) ldquohellipand all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his le983040rdquoAnd how did they have the power to get them down Because Aza and Azael were teaching them witchcra983040[that enabled them to do these things] if it was not so they would not be able to get them down

And at the same time the ministering angels colluded [together] to put a prosecutor in front of God tellinghim ldquoMaster of the Universe what [business] do you have with human beings as it is written (Psalm 8 4) lsquohellip

what is man (in Hebrew Enoshe) that thou art mindful to himrsquo And it is not written what is Adam (Hebrewa man a human being) but what is Enoshe (Hebrew a man a human being) since he (Enoshe) was the headof paganism Why did you leave the holy heavens which are full with your honor that high and glorified theyare and the raised chair that is at the height of heavenrsquos plains and you came and went with human-beings idol- worshipers that compared you with paganism [and] now you are on earth what is your place with earth- walkers and idol-worshipersrdquo God immediately removed the Divine spirit from earth then the serving angelsand hosts battalions and plainsrsquo soldiers 1000 droves and hosts came and took the trumpets and grabbed theshofars in their hands and circled the Divine spirit in songs and singing to heaven as written (Psalm 47 5)rdquoGod is gone up with a shoutrdquo

Said Rabbi Ishmael Metatron head of the angels told meAt first when God wanted to raise me up to heaven He sent a ministering angel Anfiel who took me fromamong them (people on Earth) before their eyes and put me on a big cherub and in a fire-vehicle and fire-horses and honor-servants and raised me with the Divine spirit to heaven and when I arrived to heaven there were animals (ldquoChayotrdquo - a class of Angels seen in Ezekielrsquos vision) and cherubs and ministering angels and wheels and fire-servants (ldquoSeraphimrdquo or ldquoburningrdquo Angels ibid) up there and they smelled my smell from faraway 5000 and 3600000 (lit 360 ten-thousand) parasangs and they all saidlsquowhat is the smell of this mortal-drop and what is the reason for this whiteness-drop (sic) coming up to heavento serve among those carved from sparks of fire (lit spark-carved)God answers and tells themServants of my host my cherubs and my ministering angels do not oppose this since all human-beings le983040 me

and my great kingdom and turned and worshiped idols I removed my Divine spirit from among them andraised it back to heaven and this [Enoch] is the only thing I took from my world under the whole sky

Said Rabbi Ishmael Metatron head of the angels told meWhen God took me from among the Flood generation [he] raised me in the wings of the Divine spirit to thesupreme heaven and entered me into great palaces at the height of heaven where there [is] the honor of theDivine spirit large carriages of fury and soldiers of rage and angels of fire and cherubs of torch and angels ofember and servants of flame and flashes of lightning and angels of sparklemdashand placed me [there] to serveeveryday in front of His-honorrsquos chair



Said Rabbi Ishmael Metatron head of the angels told meBefore God placed me [in Heaven] to serve the honored chair [He] opened for me the Holy One Blessed beHe 600 thousands gates of wisdom and 300 thousand [gates] of sense and 300 thousand of life and 300thousand of cunning and 300 thousand of Divine spirit and 300 thousand of bravery and strength and 300thousand of grace and kindness and 300 thousand of love 300 thousand of Torah and 300 thousand oflivelihood and 300 thousand of humility and 300 thousand of fear-of-sin From that moment on God added

to me wisdom upon wisdom sense upon sense cunning upon cunning knowledge upon knowledge mercyupon mercy and Torah upon Torah and love upon love kindness upon kindness and delight upon delightand humility upon humility and bravery upon bravery and power upon power and strength upon strengthand brightness upon brightness and beauty upon beauty and appearance upon appearance I was honored andglorified in all these fine and remarkable virtues more than any one in heaven

Said Rabbi Ishmael Metatron head of the angels told meAll of this God did for me [he made me] a chair like the chair-of-honor and prize upon prize of the chair-of-honor that all kinds of brightness and glory of the world are fixed in it and put the chair at the entrance of theseventh hall and sat me on it and the announcement about me [and my elevation] went out into heavenssaying

Metatron my [Godrsquos] servant I made him a minister and a ruler over all my kingdomrsquos ministers and [over] allheavenrsquos members except for eight ministers and honored angels the greats and the awe-inspiring who werecalled YrdquoH (as the Hebrew letters ) as the name of their king and every angel and every minister who has aיthing to say will go to him [Metatron] and to him will speak and everything he will tell you in My name you will observe (maintain respect) and do because [as you are now] a minster of wisdom and minister of sense I[God] gave you to learn the wisdom of heaven and of earth and the life of this world and this of the world tocome and I [God] also nominated him [Metatron] on all the hoards of the plainrsquos halls and of all life-treasuresI have in heaven

Said Rabbi Ishmael Metatron head of the angels told me

God revealed to me the spring of all Torah mysteries and all wisdom secrets and all depths of the uprightTorah and all the laws of nature are known to me as they are known to their Creator and I watched to look atdeep-enigmas and at wonder-secrets before a man thinks ndash I know and before he does somethingclandestinely ndash I see and there is nothing either in the height or in the depth that is hidden to me

Said RabbiIshmael Metatron head of the angels told meOut of [the] love that God loved me [with] more than any [other] angel in heaven he made me pride-clothing(sic) in which all kinds of glories are fixed and dressed me and made me a coat in which all kinds of brightnessand splendor are fixed and raised me and made me a kingdom-crown in which 49 gemstones are fixed andtheir light is like the sun and their brightness spreads in four heaven-plainrsquos winds and in seven heavens and infour winds and tied it to my head and called me lsquolittle Godrsquo (ldquoLittle Ha-Shemrdquo ) in front of all theיה

entourage-of-heaven as it says (Exodus 2321) rdquohellip for my name is in himrdquo

Said Rabbi Ishmael Metatron head of the angels told meSplendor in all heaven since God took me to serve the honor-chair and the carriagersquos (Merkava) wheels and allof the Divine spiritrsquos guarantors [and] promptly my flesh turned into a fire-flame and my tendons [turned]into burning hot fire and my bones into broom-ember and my eyelids into sparkles and my eye-wheels intofire-torches and my head-hair into flame-blazes and all my organs into burning fire-wings and all my body-height into a blazing fire to my right hewers of fire-flames and to my le983040 torches-burners and my



surroundings are floating in a tempest-wind and a storm and a voice of noise in noise in front of and behindme

Up to here we wrote a few Braitas (Aramaic external Mishna) of Merkavah

Know that Metatron is called asmitetor which is a leader as in Bereshit Rabba (see Albeck section 5 starting

ldquolet the water under heaven gather together onto one placerdquo) let the water gather God became a mitetor to the water meaning a leader hence the name Metatron means leader of the world and singing song (Hebrewron)everyday and of him it was said (Exodus 23 21) ldquoBeware of him and obey his voice provoke him nothellipfor myname is in himrdquo Shadrsquorsquoai (literally guard of Israelrsquos doors) in Metatron (equal in gematria) and more my nameis in him replace the [Letter]Kof of in him (the Hebrew wordכ קב) in ndash do not say ndash Blessed is His name

and it will be and Shadrdquoai is hisש and take from my [God] name [the letter]Yod and it will beש[Metatronrsquos] Rabbirsquos [God] name And why is Metatron as (like) Shadrsquoai Because he is [the one who] testifies[to] God [as to] that (or whom) is worth[y] to worship and glorify as it is in (before the) Merkabah e youngster Metatronbows down to God and goes under (to the foot of) the chair-of-honor andpraisesand saysBlessed is He י (all are Hebrew letters representing permutations of theי י היי

Divine name) each and every day and the youngster praises (God) three times a day His stature is the entire world [the] crown on his head 500 thousand upon 500 thousandparasangs Israel his name and the crown thegemstone between its beams lights as far as 300 thousand upon 300 thousand and his body looks like an arcsurrounded by home-fire (lit) and the name of the Great (the Great name of God) is engravedin his heart formy (Godrsquos) name is in him And the voice hits and exhausting his power in the place where the name isengravedand from there hear the ministering angels and from there it explodes ldquoIs not my word like asfireand like a hammer that breaketh the rock in piecesrdquo (Jeremiah 23 29) to that it was said (Exodus2321) ldquoBeware of him and obey his voice provoke him nothellipfor my name is in himrdquo at is (Ibid 22) ldquoBut ifthou shalt indeed obey his voice and do all that I speakrdquo and it is written (Ezekiel 1 28) ldquohellip and I heard a voiceof one that spokerdquo

In Rabbi Akivarsquos alphabet 70 names has he Metatron and [also] the name ldquolittle Godrdquo as he that will walkamong us and it did not say you will walk [among us] but he will walk and he stands as it is written (Kings A22 19) ldquohellipI saw the Lord sitting on his throne and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right-handand on his le983040rdquo But where it is written that he is sitting it is only a semblance of sitting he looks as-if he issitting since he is the judge of them all

Said Rabbi Ishmael Metatron head of the angels told meAt first I was sitting on a great chair at the entrance of the seventh hall andjudged all of heavenrsquos-members withthe authorization of God and allotted greatness and kingdom and Rabbinate and splendor and praise andtiara and crown and honor and all the ministering angels were standing above me to my right and to my le983040 when I was sitting in the assembly-of-heaven by the authorization of God And when Elisha ben (son of)Abuya came he was late to look at the viewing of the carriage (Merkavah) and was looking at me and wasfearing me and shocked by me and his soul is rushing (NB as is the case in several other places the authorchanges tenses in mid-sentence) to flee out of him as a result of [his] fear of me my reverence and my awe thathe saw me sitting on the chair as a king and the ministering angels are standing by me and all the ministers ofheavenrsquos-kingdoms aretying crowns and surrounding me at that time he [Elisha] opened his mouthand saidldquofor sure there are two authorities in heavenrdquo Promptly a Bat Kol (lit a voice metaphorically a HeavenlyVoice) came out [from] before the Divine spirit and said Return you naughty sons apart from another encame at the command of God Anfiel Hrsquo the minister-angel the honored magnificent wonderful pleasant



awesome and admired ndash and brought 60 pulsas (from the Aramaic lit lashes) of fire [against Metatron] andthey (the pulsas) stood me straight-up on my feet (knocked Metatron up onto his feet)

In Rabbi Akivarsquos alphabet (God) gave to Metatron who is Enoch ben (son of) Jared all the hoards andassigned him all the treasure I (God) have in every heaven and the key to each one is in his (Metatron) hands I(God) appointed him to [be] a minister of all the ministers and I made him a servant of my honored chair to

curl and to take care of the holy animals (the Chayot Angels) and to tie crowns to their heads and angels ofsplendor to surround them honor glory and splendor to dress them and sparks of radiance to grab in handsbrightness and radiance of flame-angels (Seraphim) with which to proudly wrap and flashes of light tostrengthen from and at every gate to prepare for Him a seat when he is sitting on his chair [besides the presence] of the glory of my (Godrsquos) chair of the glory of my honor in honor and respect to increase my honorin heavens in its height in all the highs is 70000 parasangs and I increased his honor from the glory of myhonor and theradiance of his eyes is as the brightness of the chair of honor (the Divine ldquoronerdquo)

Te crown of his kingdom 500 by 500 parasangs and I (God) granted him (Metatron) from my glory and mysplendor from my honor which is on the chair of honor and I called him in my name ldquolittle Godrdquo head ofangels and knower of secrets and each and every secret I told him as beloved-one and each and every secret I

informed him when I set him to sit at the entrance of his hall as a judge of all my entourage in heaven Andevery minster I put in front of him to get permission to do his (the ministerrsquos) will

70 names I (God) took from mine and called him (Metatron) by them to increase his honor and respect And70 ministers I gave to his command at any language To degrade superiors to earth and to li983040 up despisers toheaven and to strike kings and to beat counts and to rise kings and counts ldquoAnd he changeth the times andthe seasons removeth kings and setteth up kingsrdquo (Daniel 2 21) to give wisdom to every world-wise andsense and knowledge to every knowing and I appointed him to reveal secrets and to teach the laws ldquoSo shallmy word be that goeth forth out of my mouth it shall not return unto me void but it shall accomplish that which I pleasedhelliprdquo (Isaiah 55 11) I did not [say] ldquowas saidrdquo but ldquoaccomplishedrdquo to teach that each and everything and each and every word that came out of Godrsquos mouth Metatron head of angels steps forwards and performs it and maintains the commands o983040heHoly One Blessed be He

And each and everyday Metatron sits [for] three hours in heaven and writes down (records) all the souls offetuses who died in their mothersrsquo intestine (sic) and of the sesucking breasts who died on their mothersrsquobreasts and of schoolchildrenwho died on theTorah and he brings them under the chair of honor and seatsthem by classes-classes bands-bands group-group around him and teaches them Torah and wisdom Aggadas(A type of Rabbinic literature lit legends) and rumors and completes their book of studies as it says (Ibid 289) ldquoWhom shall he teach knowledge And whom shall he make to understand doctrine em that are weaned from the milk and drawn from the breastsrdquo

And 70 names has Metatron faithful youngster little God and he called Zganzgael (contains the consonantsand sounds of - gnazim- Hebrew for hoards andגנזי - el- Hebrew for God) since all the treasures ofא wisdomare given to him and all of them were open to Moses may he rest in peacein Mount Sinai until hestudied them in 40 days when Metatron studies Torah in 70 aspects of 70 languages Prophets in 70 aspects of7 languages [the] Writings in 70 aspects of 7 languages [and] since [a983040er the] 40 days were over he (Moses)forgot all at once God called him (Metatron) the gorgeous minister of Torah (Metatron) and gave him all ofthem (that he forgot) as a present like it was before as it says (Deuteronomy 10 4) rdquohellip and the Lord gave



them unto merdquo And a983040er that was valid what was said (Malachi 3 24) rdquoRemember ye the law of Moses myservanthelliprdquo

Said Rabbi Ishmael Metatron head of the angels told meOut of lots of love and great mercy God loved me more than all heavenrsquos-members he (God) wrote with hisfinger with a flame-pen and tied to my head-crown letters in which [the] heaven and earth were created (see

theSefer Yetzirah) letters in which seas and rivers were created letters in which stars and zodiac-signs werecreated and lightning and winds and thunder-snow and hail storm and tempest letters in which all the valuesof the world and all the laws of nature were created and each and every letter is flying occasionally like the sightof lightning occasionally like the sight of the torches occasionally like the sight of the fire-flames occasionallylike the sight of the rise of the sun in its glory and the moon and the stars

Said Rabbi Ishmael Metatron head of the angels told meWhen the Holy One Blessed be He tied this crown to my head moved all the ministers-of-soldiers that are inthe upper plains and all heaven and even ministers-of-gods and ministers-of-angels and ministers-of-emissaries that are greater than all the ministering angels who are serving the honored chair [even they] weremoved and are shivered by me when they see [me] and even minister Samael head of all Accusers who is

greater than the ministers of all heavenrsquos-kingdoms fears me and is outraged by me And even the angels of fireand the angels of hail and the angels of wind and the angels of fury and the angel of rage and the angels ofnoise and the angels of snow the hail and the rain and the angel of the day and the angel of the night and theangel of the moon and the angel of the sun and the angel of the stars and the angel of the zodiac-signs whichrule the world under their hands (the signs) [all of these] are moving and are out raging and are frightened byme see me and are falling on their faces and cannot look at me because of [the] glory and splendor andbrightness and radiance and beauty and gleam of the light of my crown-of-honor that is on my head

Metatronis a minister upon all ministers and stands ahead of anyone who were [to be] raised [up] by God andhe (Metatron) enters under the chair of honor and he has a great seat of light up (in heaven) and he brings asilent fire and makes theears of animals not to hear the voice of speech

When Moses rose to heaven and suffered 121Taaniths (lit fasts) until the springs of flashes were opened tohim and he saw that his heart is like the heart of a lion and saw hosts-sects there around him to burn him and[when] Moses asked for mercy for Israel and [then] later asked mercy for himself and [the one]who is incharge of the carriage (Merkabah) opened the windows above the heads of the cherubs and 1800 advocates ofIsrael went out and Metatron head of angels with them they received Mosesrsquo prayer and set it at the head ofGod ldquoHear O Israel the Lord our God Lord is Onerdquo (Shema Yisrael) [they] rejoiced and were happy from theface of the Divine spirit (Shechina) and she (the Divine spirit) told to Metatron who are these and to whomdo they give all this honor and respect as it says (Nahum 23) ldquoin the greatness of Israel God is aliverdquo At thattime Akatriel YrdquoH Hrsquo (ה ) turned and said to Metatron head of angels

Whoever asks for God do not deny his request hear his prayerand fill his needs be them (the needs) many orfew Promptly said Metatron to Moses son of AmramDo not fear demand your needs proudly and bravely since the skin of your face shines from the end of the world to its end said MosesCould it be that I am guiltySaid Metatron head of angels to MosesReceive this oath that is not a breaking of a treatyand his name called Metatron that became a metator (Greek or Latin the one who sits on the chair of honor)



shows what God wanted for his angels that he will be ahead [of them] and he Metatron is a Rabbi and ateacher of the good children it is Metatron the matron of the evil that is not Benai (sons of) Osnardquot Mshgardquochthat are mentioned in Masechet Nedarim And why [is it that] he made Metatron a (אס משג)governor of all heavenrsquos-members Because when he (Metatron as Enoch) saw the Flood generation sin hebuilt a house extant to his place (ie a place for him to go into physical isolation) and there was the place where he prayed and where he studied and he was not walking inside the world and Enoch (Metatron) was

worshiping God and dismissedhim in a great shout rose God in a shout with the Divine spirit Hrsquo () in ashofar-voice (Psalm 476) to inform that [the] pious are prior to [the] ministering angels ldquoto this time it shallbe said to Jacob and Israel ldquoWhat hath God wroughtrdquo (Numbers 23 23) And so found Kilar these will befrom within etc



Te Ways of Metatron(Hilchot Metatron)A Book of Enoch

by Eleazar of Worms

First English EditionTranslation by Jonathan M Stein Esq



Editors Note

















__________________________


July 21 2011





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July 21 2011





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July 21 2011





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The Ways of Metatron