2 myths
Myths, legends, and mystical writings about Divine Unity from across Jewish tradition.
2 myths on JewishMythology.com retell how Jewish tradition imagines divine unity, 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.

Samael does not seize power. He is given it. The gap sin creates is the only space Samael enters, and God is the one who opens the door.

Before the first day, God held a whole world of pure patterns. Then the visible universe was pressed out of that invisible plan.