The tanna Rabbi Meir draws a comparison of tekhelet to the sea, the heavens and the Divine Throne. R. Meir portrays tekhelet as a means of linking to and receiving the Shekhinah. Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan interpreted this as a powerful meditative technique to transfer one’s thoughts and awareness to heavenly domains. He speculated that this was used as a technique in mystical ascent to the Heavenly realms culminating in perception of the Divine Throne.
