3 myths
Myths, legends, and mystical writings about Baruch from across Jewish tradition.
3 myths on JewishMythology.com retell how Jewish tradition imagines baruch, 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.
Babylon came to loot the scribe of Jeremiah, but the deadly grave, the gold-dusted grass, and the holy dead turned the robber into a Jew.
Standing over the graves, Baruch demands to know whether the dead rise in wounded bodies or transformed ones, and receives a precise answer.
A cloud rises from the sea and rains over the whole earth in twelve turns of black and bright water, each age a color the angel Ramiel must name.
