2 myths
Myths, legends, and mystical writings about Divine Fire from across Jewish tradition.
2 myths on JewishMythology.com retell how Jewish tradition imagines divine fire, 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.
David left Solomon a throne and one brutal command: bring Joab's bloodguilt to judgment before it followed him beyond death.
On the Mishkan's eighth day two priests carried their own fire into the Holy of Holies, and a purer flame answered by burning them alive.
