2 myths
Myths, legends, and mystical writings about Folklore from across Jewish tradition.
2 myths on JewishMythology.com retell how Jewish tradition imagines folklore, 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.
Nebuchadnezzar hoped two silly riddles would break the boy, but Ben Sira answered with Jericho, the ark, and a king left strangely instructed.
After the Temple falls, Lilith takes a stolen seat in the ruined house, then enters a mother's room in Kurdish Jewish memory and is trapped.
