Sanhedrin, fol. 65, col. 2.

    In the Jerusalem Talmud, Sanhedrin, chap. 7, we read that, by
    the means above mentioned, a Rabbi created pumpkins, melons, and
    real deer and roes.

There is a living creature in heaven which by day has “Truth” upon its forehead, by which the angels know it is day; but in the evening it has “Faith” on its forehead, whereby the angels know that night is near.  Each time the living creature says, “Bless ye the blessed Lord,” all the hosts above respond, “Blessed be the blessed Lord forever.”

Kitzur Sh’lh, fol. 42. col. 2.

Truth and faith are the essentials of religion, which are thirteen in number:—­

1.  God exists, and there is no period to His existence.  The philosophers call it absolute existence, but the majority of Kabbalists term it “endless,” which, by Gematria, is “light”; and again, by Gematria, is “Lord of the Universe.”  He is the cause of causes and the causing of causings, and from or by His existence all beings, spiritual and material, derive their existence.

2.  He is one, and there is no unity like His, etc.

3.  He has no bodily likeness, and is not corporeal.

4.  He is first of everything, absolute beginning; as it is said, “I am the First and I am the Last” (Isa. xliv 6), and there is no beginning to His beginning.

5.  None but Himself is to be worshiped and prayed to.

6.  The gift of prophecy He has given to men esteemed and glorified by Him.

7.  None arose like unto Moses, etc.

8.  A law of truth He gave; this is the law from heaven, “In the beginning” unto “in the sight of all Israel.”  Also its comment received orally is likewise “a law (given) unto Moses from Sinai.”

9.  God will not change or alter His law forever.  He will never change the law of Moses our Rabbi—­peace be unto him!  The law will suffer no addition or diminution (but it will abide even), as the prophet Malachi sealed it with the seal of the prophets in ending his words (Mal. iv. 4), “Remember ye the law of Moses My servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel.”  Formerly the law was in a garment of light, but in consequence of sin, the law became materialized in a garment of skin, in the same proportion as man became materialized in a body of flesh.  In the future, after the redemption, however, the law will have the garment of light restored, and the Messiah will preach the law in terrible mysteries, such as no ear has ever heard, and it will appear to us as a new law.  But the law will not be altered, or made new, as the nations of the world say.  Jer. xxxi. 30-33.

10.  He observeth and knoweth all our secrets, etc.

11.  There are rewards and punishments in the future, etc.

12.  He will send at the end of days our Messiah from the seed of David to redeem His people Israel from among the nations, and restore to them the kingdom.