While my professor was telling us a "short" story (it took about half an hour to tell) I was reading in my Comparative Religion text book, and I came across a story from the Jewish Talmud. Basically it is a book of two types, legal material and narrative tales. (It was put together in 425 A.D.) I kept reading and I found this really cool story that was taken from the Talmud, enjoy! :-)
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Another time the Emperor said to R. Joshua B. Hananiah, "I wish to see your God." He replied, "You cannot see him." "Indeed," said the Emporer, "I will see him." He (Hananiah) went and placed the Emperor facing the sun during the summer solstice and said to him, "Look up at it." He replied, "I cannot." R. Joshua said, "If at the sun which is but one of the ministers that attend the Holy One, blessed be He, you cannot look, how then can you presume to look upon the divine presence?"
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