6 myths
Myths, legends, and mystical writings about Divine Glory from across Jewish tradition.
6 myths on JewishMythology.com retell how Jewish tradition imagines divine glory, drawn from the Hebrew Bible, Midrash, Talmud, Kabbalah, and later Jewish literature. Each story below synthesizes primary sources into a single narrative; follow any myth to read it, and from there into the source passages behind it.
Enoch's angelic guides abandon him at the threshold of the tenth heaven. He falls to the ground in terror. Then God calls him to come closer.
Pharaoh told Egypt he was a god who felt no human needs. Every morning he went down to the Nile alone to keep it up. One morning Moses was standing there.
Zoharariel approaches the throne on his knees, shaking, while other angels tremble and the measure of his garment exceeds all bounds.
Jeremiah climbs the bloodied road and finds a woman weeping in black over empty cradles, and she is the burned land herself, the one God keeps His glory for.
Pharaoh boasted through Ezekiel's mouth that he made himself, so God handed a runaway shepherd the one glory earthly kings kill to guard.
Emboldened after Sinai, Moses begged to see God's glory, so God hid him in the rock and stretched His own Word over the stone as it swept past.
