Circumcision in Jewish Mythology

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Myths, legends, and mystical writings about Circumcision from across Jewish tradition.
Myth 5 min

Zipporah Laid the Circumcision Blood at the Destroyer's Feet

At a roadside inn, Zipporah cut her son with a stone and dropped the flesh at an angel's feet so Moses could live to reach Egypt.

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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

God handed Abraham a secret too heavy to speak, hidden in five doubled letters and one small word, and it traveled his blood down to Egypt.

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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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