3 myths
Myths, legends, and mystical writings about Falsehood from across Jewish tradition.
3 myths on JewishMythology.com retell how Jewish tradition imagines falsehood, 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.
Refused at the ark for having no mate, Falsehood weds Wickedness to sneak aboard, and the flood meant to drown deceit carries the pair through.
Rabbi Elazar sentenced a man for an insult, then soaked sixty cloths a night until his pride dried into hard clarity.
A man locked his neighbor's silver in a chest and swore it was stolen. Confess first and he repays a fifth more. Wait for witnesses and he pays double.
