On My Right Michael, On My Left Gabriel: Angels in Ancient Jewish Culture by Mika Ahuvia

Author:Mika Ahuvia
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of California Press

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Jewish Mystics and the Angelic Realms

Early Mystical Sources

Said Rabbi Ishmael: Which are the hymns recited by one who wishes to behold the vision of the Merkavah (the divine throne-chariot), to descend in peace and to ascend in peace?

The greatest thing of all is that they [the angels] are bound to him, lead him, and bring him into the palace chambers of the seventh heaven, and place him to the right of the throne of his glory, and sometimes he stands opposite T‘TzS, the Lord, the God of Israel, in order to see everything that they do before the throne of his glory and to know everything that will occur in the world in the future.

—OPENING OF HEKHALOT RABBATI

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