Merkabah

Merkabah

Merkabah mysticism (or Chariot mysticism) is a school of Jewish mysticism centered on visions such as found in Ezekiel chapter 1, or in the hekhalot literature, concerning stories of ascents to the heavenly "palaces." The main corpus of the Merkabah literature was composed in Israel in the period 200–700CE, although later references to the Chariot tradition can also be found in the literature of Chassidei Ashkenaz in the Middle Ages. A major text in this tradition is the Maaseh Merkabah (Works of the Chariot).