10 myths
Each story names the sources it was written from.
He asked for a face no living body could survive. God gave him a cave, a covering hand, and the air after the Presence had gone.
God told Moses to give some of his glory to Joshua, not all. The rabbis built the entire theology of succession from that one missing word.
Moses comes down blazing and does not know it. Glory clings from the cave, from the gap between hands on the tablets, and from leftover ink on the pen.
He was three, in a house stocked with gods. On Friday he set a cooked dish aside for a Sabbath nobody had commanded yet.
Joshua cuts Amalek's ranks below while Moses' arms fail on the hill, and Aaron and Hur hold them skyward until the enemy breaks at dusk.
Builders shaped foundation stones for a house still incomplete. Then the throne of glory hung between altar and inner room. Faces hit the floor.
The calf was still cold metal behind him. Moses would not march the people on a rumor of protection. He asked Heaven for a name.
In Potiphars house Joseph prays under his breath. The Egyptian demands to see his God. Joseph points at the sun and asks who can stare at a mere servant.
Storm-driven sages poured ocean water that never overflowed, and Rabbi Yehoshua told Hadrian to look at noon light he could not bear.
Unlike jealous kings, the King of Glory shared staff, whirlwind, throne, and even name, binding Israel to Heaven through Moses the joiner.
