3 myths
Myths, legends, and mystical writings about Fear of Heaven from across Jewish tradition.
3 myths on JewishMythology.com retell how Jewish tradition imagines fear of heaven, 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.
Jacob survived Laban, crossed the Jordan alone, and built two camps. Then he heard Esau was coming with four hundred men and was genuinely afraid.
A scoffer said heaven never gave him understanding for study. The teacher asked who taught him to weave nets, and the man wept.
Et (את) marks the object of a Hebrew verb. Shimon HaAmsoni read every et as an inclusion until fear of God left nothing else to add.
