2 myths
Myths, legends, and mystical writings about Danger from across Jewish tradition.
2 myths on JewishMythology.com retell how Jewish tradition imagines danger, 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.
After thirteen years of Torah study in hiding, Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai emerged with eyes so fierce that everything he looked at caught fire.
A poor man rose to royal scribe by a maxim and a careful pen. Silence saved him from a queen's trap, and another man walked first into the death letter.
