In the beginning,
two thousand years before the heaven and the earth,
seven things were created:
the Torah written with black fire on white fire,
and lying in the lap of God;
the Divine Throne,
erected in the heaven which later was over the heads of the Hayyot;
Paradise on the right side of God,
Hell on the left side;
the Celestial Sanctuary directly in front of God,
having a jewel on its altar graven with the Name of the Messiah,
and a Voice that cries aloud, "Return, ye children of men."
--the Haggadah
