35 myths · Page 2 of 2
Haman built the gallows and went to bed happy. Nobody else in the world slept. In the cave at Hebron, Abraham turned over in the ground.
A trapped bird teaches Rabbi Shimon ben Yochai that Heaven speaks every pardon and every snare, and he walks out to purify Tiberias.
On a Shushan roof he waited for the Lion. The thirteenth of Adar looked safest. He never asked who hung the stars he trusted.
A doe too narrow to give birth, a raindrop that will not touch its neighbor, and all creation praising God in a silence louder than any voice.
She came carrying everything she had watched go wrong and demanded an accounting. The Intellect refused to comfort her and asked about lack.
