In Kabbalistic cosmology, Sandalphon presides over the tenth sefirah, Malkhut (Kingdom), and the terrestrial realm of Assiah. Described in the Talmud as towering by a five-hundred-year journey above other angels with feet set upon earth, he serves as the heavenly co-brother (synadelphos) to Metatron. He captures the spoken prayers of all nations, binds them into garlands, and adjures them upward to crown the Holy One.
“Talmud Chagigah 13b establishes his immense height exceeding his peers by a 500-year journey, while the Zohar and Cordovero's Pardes Rimonim integrate him into the Sephirotic tree as the angel of Malkhut and spiritual counterpart to Metatron.”
Domains of Authority
Sphere of Operation
What does this entity do?
Operational Scope
At what scale does it govern?
Sephirotic Correspondence
Where does it sit on the Tree?
Native to Kabbalistic canon — shown here because this variant belongs to it.
Iconography & Implements
Objects, vestments, and marks borne in Kabbalistic tradition — and what each one signifies.
Woven crowns of mortal supplication carried upward to the Throne.
Radiant garland of gathered prayers set upon the divine head.
Immeasurable stature exceeding fellow angels by a five-hundred-year journey.
Binding threads anchoring the towering angel to the world of action.
