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Endpaper 369 Since Yahweh, too, was unseen and unrepresented pictori- ally, residing in "Heaven," the inevitable question that arises is, Where was the abode of Yahweh? With so many parallels between Yahweh and Anu, did Yahweh, too, have a "Nib- iru" to dwell on? The question, and its relevance to Yahweh's invisibility, does not originate with us. It was sarcastically posed by a heretic to a Jewish savant, Rabbi Gamliel, almost two thou- sand years ago; and the answer that was given is truly amazing! The report of the conversation, as rendered into English by S.M. Lehrman in The World of the Midrash, goes thus: When Rabbi Gamliel was asked by a heretic to cite the exact location of God, seeing that the world is so vast and there are seven oceans, his reply was simply, "This I cannot tell you." Whereupon the other tauntingly retorted: "And this you call Wisdom, praying to a God, daily, whose whereabouts you do not know?" The Rabbi smiled: "You ask me to put my finger on the exact spot of His Presence, albeit that tradition avers that the distance between heaven and earth would take a journey of 3,500 years to cover. So, may I ask you the exact whereabouts of something which is al- ways with you, and without which you cannot live a moment?" The pagan was intrigued. “What is this?" he ea- gerly queried. The Rabbi replied: "The soul which God had planted within you; pray tell me where exactly is it?" It was a chastened man that shook his head negatively. It was now the Rabbi's turn to be amazed and amused. "If you do not know where your own soul is located, how can you expect to know the precise habita- tion of One who fills the whole world with His glory?" retorted: "And __ this God, daily, whose intrigued. "What is this?" he was ea- shook his head man be to Let us note carefully what Rabbi Gamliel's answer was: according to Jewish tradition, he said, the exact spot in the