2 myths
Myths, legends, and mystical writings about Hidden Light from across Jewish tradition.
2 myths on JewishMythology.com retell how Jewish tradition imagines hidden light, 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.
Before light or stars, God hid the Messiah beneath His throne, and the adversary who came searching found only his own ruin written in the glow.
God burned the angels who doubted man, then folded a pure light beneath His Throne for the Messiah and a star to time the end.
