According to grandpa Yacov, Adam's soul preceded creation and its spirit inhabited the world and touched all that the Almighty created thereafter. Upon the completion of creation, Adam's body was fashioned to house the soul that witnessed the whole process of creation. Whenever a newborn comes into our world, a part of the primal soul settles in it, making it its temple, exactly in the same way the Divine made the Holy of Holies its home in the Temple in Jerusalem.

I came to know my soul before I was born. Before my conception, archangel Michael and Gabriel carried me around to see the world from one end to the other. In the morning, the righteous gathered around the Almighty and great grandpa Avraham and my father told me: 'This is the place where the pious reside!' In the evening, the Angels of Destruction took my soul to hell and said: 'This is the place where the wicked burn!'

Between the morning and the evening, the angels carried my soul around and showed me where I was destined to live and where I was to die and the whole life I was to live on earth after I am born. At the end of the day, the angel took me back to my mother's womb and said: 'Forget all that you have seen and make your life on earth worth your while!' When the time came for me to be born I cried for all that I have seen and learnt escaped me as if I knew nothing from before.