Circumcision in Jewish Mythology

65 myths · Page 3 of 3

Myth 5 min

Zipporah Laid the Circumcision Blood at the Destroyer's Feet

The inn doorway filled until the lamp flame bent. Moses hit the boards. Zipporah already had a river stone cold in her hand.

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Parshat Tazria 5 min

Akiva Told Rome Why God Leaves the World Unfinished

Summoned before Rome's ruler and governor, Rabbi Akiva flings a fortune in medicine to the pigs and shows why God left the world unfinished.

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Parshat Beshalach 6 min

Pharaoh Read Evil in a Star and Fell in the Pit He Dug

Pharaoh read a star named Evil rising to bleed Israel, but God turned the omen into covenant blood and the sea took the man who dug the pit.

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Parshat Lech Lecha 6 min

The Secret Abraham Carried and the Word That Freed Egypt

Abraham fell on his face when God gave him a password no one else knew. Serah bat Asher, a girl in Egypt, would be the last to hold it.

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Myth 5 min

Joshua Pressed All Israel Between the Poles of the Ark

Joshua marched the whole nation into the hand's breadth between the Ark's two poles, and the small space held the many while the Jordan stood still.

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