In that hour, three of the ministering angels—Uzzah, Azzah, and Azael—came forth and brought charges against me in the high heavens, saying before the Holy One: Didn’t the first ones rightly say before you, “Do not create humankind!” The Holy One blessed be He answered and said to them, “I have made and I will hear; I will carry and deliver” (Isa 46:4b).
As soon as they saw me, they said before him: “Lord of the universe! What is this one that he should ascend to the height of the heavens? Is he not one from among the sons of those who perished in the days of the Flood? What is he doing in the Raqia (i.e., the Firmament)”?
Again, the Holy One blessed be He answered and said to them: “What are you, that you enter and speak in my presence? I delight in this one more than in all of you, and thus he will be a prince and ruler over you in the high heavens!”
Right away, all stood up and went out to meet me, prostrated themselves before me and said: “Happy are you and happy is your father, for the Creator favors you. And because I am small and a youth among them in days and months and years, therefore they call me Na‘ar.”
