4 myths

Before the world began, angels sanctified God's Name through Israel, then rejected Adam, Noah, and Abraham until Jacob arrived.

Shoulders touched, babies fussed, elders leaned on staffs. A woman there understood she would be tested at the loom and the oven, not only at the altar.

The spirit living in the spring had never hurt anyone. A stronger one came that wanted to, so the old one went looking for a rabbi.

Hadrian stopped on the road to mock an old man planting fig saplings. Three years later the old man walked into camp with a basket.