43 myths · Page 2 of 2
Two women claim one living infant before Solomon's throne. He calls for a sword to split the child, and the true mothers cry stops the blade.
The real king wandered from study house to study house saying he had once ruled Israel. People beat him with a reed and set porridge in front of him.
Rabbi Yishmael measured the neck in myriads, then reached a head no mouth could name. Speech broke before the brightness around the throne.
God clothes the Messiah in light at His right hand, Abraham falters at the left, and the heavens open so Israel can see there is no other.
When the calf rose in the camp, Moses darkened like a blind man. Angels closed in to kill him, and God opened a crack beneath the throne.
Seals for the right and left open the palaces. Guardians seize the climber and hand him to Shebhoriel before the robe of Names.
After the shroud is knotted, a righteous soul slips under the purple-blue Throne of Glory and waits for resurrection in the dark of sapphire.
A man fasts, immerses, and sinks into the Merkavah (divine chariot). Seven palaces test him with fire and ice until he falls before a throne he may only behold.
A king married off his daughter and could not bear the empty hall, so he cut a window so they could still meet face to face.
A descender to the chariot climbs through gates of fire to the Throne and learns the world was not hammered but poured out of beauty and light.
At the seventh palace his knees gave out. The guardians stood taller than towers, and behind the last door was a roar that turned out to be singing.
One by one the letters climb before the Throne, each boasting of the holy word it carries, and each turned away for the sin its own name also spells.
Rabbi Ishmael went up through the palaces to see a face and found weather instead, wrath rising over the earth and angels who cancel what heaven signed.
