4 myths
Myths, legends, and mystical writings about Hatred from across Jewish tradition.
4 myths on JewishMythology.com retell how Jewish tradition imagines hatred, 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.
Before the armies engaged, Esau spoke words designed to close every door. He named himself as the boar and did not apologize for it.
Gad pulled a lamb out of a bear's mouth and had to put it down. Joseph went home and told their father the handmaids' sons were eating the herd.
The princes of Moab were still asleep under his roof. Balaam was out in the cold before dawn, tightening the girth with his own hands.
Two men stopped speaking. Three days of silence out of hatred, and the law no longer called their next collision an accident worth exile.
