3 myths
Myths, legends, and mystical writings about Glory from across Jewish tradition.
3 myths on JewishMythology.com retell how Jewish tradition imagines 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.
Rabbi Shimon tells his son that the rainbow carries husks over a hidden brightness. Until those husks are stripped away the Messiah will not come.
God told Moses to give some of his glory to Joshua, not all. The rabbis built the entire theology of succession from that one missing word.
Moses asked to see God's glory and was given a cave, a hidden Name, a procession of angels, and the trace left after God passed.