Editing Time travel (section)

=== Abrahamic religions ===
One tradition in Judaism has [[Moses sees Rabbi Akiva (Menachot 29b)|Moses transported by God to the study hall of Rabbi Akiva]], where he is perplexed by the later evolution of the faith. Another Talmudic story concerns [[Honi HaMe'agel]], a miracle-working sage of the 1st century BC, who was a historical character to whom various myths were attached. While traveling one day, Honi saw a man planting a [[carob]] tree and asked him about it. The man explained that the tree would take 70 years to bear fruit, and that he was planting it not for himself but for the generations to follow him. Later that day, Honi sat down to rest but fell asleep for 70 years; when he awoke, he saw a man picking fruit from a fully mature carob tree. Asked whether he had planted it, the man replied that he had not, but that his grandfather had planted it for him.<ref name="Talmud">Babylonian Talmud Taanit 23a [http://www.mechon-mamre.org/b/l/l2803.htm Hebrew/Aramaic text at Mechon-Mamre] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809103228/http://www.mechon-mamre.org/b/l/l2803.htm|date=2020-08-09}}</ref><ref name="ChoniLATimes2000">{{cite news |author=Margaret Snyder |date=August 29, 2000 |title=Community Commentary |url=https://www.latimes.com/socal/glendale-news-press/news/tn-gnp-xpm-2000-08-29-export45571-story.html |access-date=November 10, 2022 |newspaper=[[The Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref>

In Christian tradition, there is a similar story of "the [[Seven Sleepers]] of [[Ephesus]]", which recounts a group of early Christians who hid in a cave circa 250 AD, to escape the persecution of Christians during the reign of the [[Roman Empire|Roman]] emperor [[Decius]]. They fell into a sleep and woke some 200 years later during the reign of [[Theodosius II]], to discover that the Empire had become Christian.<ref>Benko, Stephhen (1986). ''Pagan Rome and the Early Christians'',
Indiana University Press. {{ISBN|978-0253203854}}</ref><ref name="Saint Rip">{{cite web |last1=Thorn |first1=John |title=Saint Rip |url=http://www.nyfolklore.org/pubs/voic36-1-2/st-rip.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171018210936/http://www.nyfolklore.org/pubs/voic36-1-2/st-rip.html |archive-date=18 October 2017 |access-date=21 June 2017 |website=nyfolklore.org |publisher=Voices: The Journal of New York Folklore}}</ref> This Christian story is recounted by [[Islam]] and appears in a [[Sura]] of the [[Quran]], Sura [[Al-Kahf]].<ref>[http://irebd.com/quran/english/surah-18/ Quran Surah Al-Kahf]</ref> The version recalls a group of young monotheists escaping from persecution within a cave and emerging hundreds of years later. This narrative describes divine protection and time suspension.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Yahya |first1=Farouk |title=Chapter 8 Talismans with the Names of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus/Aṣḥāb al-Kahf in Muslim Southeast Asia |chapter=Talismans with the Names of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus/Aṣḥāb al-Kahf in Muslim Southeast Asia |url=https://brill.com/edcollchap/book/9789004529397/BP000009.xml?language=en |website=Brill |publisher=Malay-Indonesian Islamic Studies |access-date=December 7, 2023 |date=December 5, 2022|pages=209–265 |doi=10.1163/9789004529397_010 |isbn=978-90-04-52939-7 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Cave of the Seven Sleepers |url=https://madainproject.com/cave_of_the_seven_sleepers |website=Madain Project |access-date=December 7, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Blakeley |first1=Sasha |title=The Seven Sleepers |url=https://study.com/academy/lesson/seven-sleepers-story-significance.html |website=Study.com |access-date=December 7, 2023 |date=April 24, 2023}}</ref> 

Another similar story in the Islamic tradition is of [[Uzair]] (usually identified with the Biblical [[Ezra]]) whose grief at the [[Destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians]]  was so great that God took his soul and brought him back to life after Jerusalem was reconstructed. He rode on his revived donkey and entered his native place. But the people did not recognize him, nor did his household, except the maid, who was now an old blind woman. He prayed to God to cure her blindness and she could see again. He meets his son who recognized him by a mole between his shoulders and was older than he was.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Renda |first=G'nsel |year=1978 |title=The Miniatures of the Zubdat Al- Tawarikh |url=http://kilyos.ee.bilkent.edu.tr/~history/Ext/Zubdat.html |journal=Turkish Treasures Culture /Art / Tourism Magazine}}</ref><ref>Ibn Kathir, Stories of the Prophets, translated by Shaikh muhammed Mustafa Gemeiah, Office of the Grand Imam, Sheikh al-Azhar, El-Nour Publishing, Egypt, 1997, Ch.21, pp.322-4</ref>