God's decision was controverted by the Academy in heaven, and the matter in debate was finally settled by a Rabbi, who had to be summoned from earth to heaven expressly to adjudicate in the case.
Bava Metzia, fol. 86, col. 1.
The classical student will recognize in this a parallel to the Greek myth in which the Olympian divinities refer their debate in the matter of the apple of discord to the judgment of Paris. May there not in both fables lie a dim forefeeling of the time when Justice shall transfer her seat from the skies, so that whatever her ministers bind on earth may be bound in heaven?
God will bear testimony before all the nations of the earth that His people Israel have kept the whole of the law.
Avodah Zarah, fol. 3, col. 1.
God is occupied for twelve hours every day in study, at work, or at play.
Ibid., fol. 3, col. 2.
God does not act without first consulting the assembly above; as it is said (Dan. iv. 17), "This matter is by the decree of the watchers and the demand of the word of the Holy One," etc.
Sanhedrin, fol. 38, col. 2.