6 myths
Myths, legends, and mystical writings about Anger from across Jewish tradition.
6 myths on JewishMythology.com retell how Jewish tradition imagines anger, drawn from the Hebrew Bible, Midrash, Talmud, Kabbalah, and later Jewish literature. Each story below synthesizes primary sources into a single narrative; follow any myth to read it, and from there into the source passages behind it.
Simeon and Levi razed a city for their sister. Jacob cursed their anger, not their deed, because the weapon was never theirs to carry.
On his deathbed, Dan told his children where the spirit that nearly made him a murderer had come from. It was older than any of them knew.
Dan spent his whole life thinking about the night a voice told him to take a sword and end his brother. He almost obeyed.
Moses shattered the first tablets at the Golden Calf, but the broken stone was not thrown away. The fragments traveled with Israel.
Moses struck the rock and the water came. A servant who delivers a message with fury on his face has misrepresented the king, and the king punishes him for it.
Doeg uses his tongue to destroy a city of priests, but David, trained as a shepherd, guards Torah and refuses to act in anger.
