43 myths · Page 2 of 2
Two students reached Arav with one request. Hanina put his head between his knees. The prayer came back fluent, so the boy would live.
Abraham prayed, and a foreign king's house filled with infants. Sarah walked home with silver and empty arms until the angels refused to keep quiet.
Thirty thousand angels escorted Moses upward, and he was terrified. Qemuel met him at the first gate and told him he came from a place of defilement.
The voice that called him out of the fire was his father's voice, and Amram had been dead for years. Moses answered it before he knew who was speaking.
Ezekiel was a priest of a temple that no longer stood, sitting by a canal in the wrong country. The sky came open over Babylon anyway.
David shouted at heaven to stand up five times and got nothing back. Then God named the one harm that would get Him off the ground.
God's throne stood five hundred years above the seventh heaven. He left it all and asked freed slaves for scraps of wool so He could live among them.
All Israel lined the path when Moses walked to the Tent. Then God told him to go back to the camp, and he said no.
Aaron would not step toward the altar. He still saw the calf in the bronze. Moses took his brother's hand and pulled him forward.
Job took his cry for God's abode as an address and marched east, west, south, and north, while the presence stood unseen in the west.
At the Western Wall she does not leave. Tradition places the Divine Presence at the northern corner, waiting for eyes trained by a life of Torah.
A king married off his daughter and could not bear the empty hall, so he cut a window so they could still meet face to face.
Armed angels came down to the Sea and God sent them home. Moses remembered that, and would not take one as escort into Canaan.
