7 myths
The throne of glory in Jewish mysticism: Ezekiel's vision, the chariot, and the seat of God above the highest heaven.
7 myths on JewishMythology.com retell how Jewish tradition imagines divine throne, 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.
God placed Abraham at the seventh firmament and told him to look down. He saw the heavens peeled back one by one below his feet.
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.
Metatron carried seventy names through heaven, but the name Youth kept the mighty angel tied to service, speed, and human memory.
He was a fugitive sleeping on a stone. Overhead, the angels were already praising God by his name, and what he saw woke him in fear.
In Babylonian exile, Ezekiel watches the sky tear open. Fire, wheels full of eyes, and four impossible creatures arrive bearing the throne of God.
Thirty thousand angels escorted Moses upward, and he was terrified. Qemuel met him at the first gate and told him he came from a place of defilement.
After Rephidim, Moses names shared trouble at the altar while God swears the divine name and throne stay incomplete until Amalek is erased.
