6 myths
The marble looked like standing water. Akiva told them not to shout. Heaven does not forgive a lie about what sits in front of the eyes.
Elisha ben Abuya entered heaven and saw an angel seated on a throne. In heaven, no one sits. His mind drew one conclusion, and it cost him everything.
An angel held the chisel at creation, said a sect hidden in caves, and the rabbis who hunted the doctrine fought to bury it forever.
A hand reached to roll Ecclesiastes shut as heresy. The last clause dragged judgment into the young man's feast, and the scroll stayed.
Kohelet sounds like heresy until judgment returns in the last clause. The sages almost suppress the book, then keep it.
Rabbi Eliezer walked free from a governor's court, then trembled because a heretic's clever question in the marketplace had once pleased him.
