20. The spirit of the person is raised up by two appointees. As it enters, it approaches a pillar of glowing flame that stands there, covered in the air of the wind that blows in that pillar. And now many that are raised up there... (MISSING HERE)... Since for all who study Torah and have new insights about her, the matters are immediately written and recorded for those members of that Yeshivah. Then all the members of the Yeshivah come to see him and those two appointed MENTIONED ABOVE exit and raise him up above to the Yeshivah of the firmament. He immediately approaches that pillar, MENTIONED ABOVE, where he is dressed IN THAT GARMENT MENTIONED ABOVE.
21. AFTER DRESSING IN THOSE GARMENTS, he enters into the Yeshivah and THE MEMBERS OF THE YESHIVAH observe him. If the matters OF NEW INSIGHT are appropriate, happy is he, since all the members of the session will adorn him with many laurels. If it is something else, MEANING TO SAY THAT IT DOES NOT FOLLOW THE PATHS OF HOLINESS, woe to him, to that embarrassment and shame. He is pushed outside and goes to stand next to the pillar MENTIONED ABOVE, until they bring him in for trial and judgment. May the Merciful One save us.
22. There are others that are raised up there when the Holy One, blessed be He, is in a disputation with the members of the Yeshivah, WHETHER THE ITEM IS PERMISSIBLE OR PROHIBITED. They say, Who shall decide THE LAW? Here is so-and-so, THE WISE MAN FROM THIS WORLD, let him come and determine this matter, HOW TO CARRY OUT THE LAW. Then they raise THAT WISE MAN up, there, and he decides by evidence that legal dispute between the Holy One, blessed be He, and the members of the Yeshivah. There are others that are raised up there for trial and are judged there, to be refined and purified.
23. Rabbi Yosi said to him, If so, IT WOULD SEEM that a person leaves and departs this world without trial. If he does depart by trial, THAT IS, HE ALREADY WAS JUDGED ABOVE, why then is he on trial a second time IN THE YESHIVAH OF THE FIRMAMENT? He replied to him, That is the way I was taught and so I heard. Surely a person who departs from this world is judged. However, prior to entering the presence of the righteous, he is raised for A SECOND trial for a decision in that Yeshivah of the firmament.
24. AT THE YESHIVAH OF THE FIRMAMENT stands the appointee of Gehenom to prosecute. Happy is the one who was found guiltless in that trial. If not, that appointee of Gehenom takes him when they hand him over to him and slings him downward, like someone who hurtles a stone with a sling, as it is written: "And the souls of your enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the hollow of a sling..." (I Shmuel 25:29). The appointee throws him into Gehenom and he receives his punishment corresponding to his sentence.
25. Come and see: "And he showed me Joshua the High Priest standing before the angel of Hashem" (Zecharyah 3:1) means that they have raised him up above for trial in the Yeshivah of the firmament, after he was gone from the world. "Standing before the angel of Hashem:" That is the same youth, MEANING THE ANGEL METATRON, THAT IS CALLED 'YOUTH,' who is the head of the Yeshivah IN THE YESHIVAH OF THE FIRMAMENT. And he pronounces the sentence over everything.