Merkabah

Merkabah is a school of early Jewish mysticism that flourished between 100 BCE and 1000 CE. It is centered on visions of the heavenly palaces and the Throne of God, such as those found in the Book of Ezekiel chapter 1. The main corpus of the merkabah literature was composed in the period 200–700 CE, although later references to the Chariot tradition can also be found in the literature of the Chassidei Ashkenaz in the Middle Ages. A major text in this tradition is the Maaseh Merkabah (Hebrew: מַעֲשֵׂה מֶרְכָּבָה maʿăśē merkāvā, "Work of the Chariot").