5 myths
Each story names the sources it was written from.
The carob tore its roots out of the yard and flew. Rabbi Joshua told the walls to stay out of the argument. They froze halfway down.
When thieves stole Rabbi Pinchas ben Yair's donkey, it refused to eat for three days rather than touch untithed grain.
Two sons of Aaron decided law with Moses present, and fire answered. A later student learned the same danger when a master timed his death in a week.
Rabbi Yochanan handed the eulogy to Reish Lakish. He called the dead man a garden that God walked into. Yochanan chose shrouds neither white nor black.
A feverish youth wastes for a woman of his town. The sages refuse every cure that would spend her dignity to buy his recovery.
