2 myths
Myths, legends, and mystical writings about Humanity from across Jewish tradition.
2 myths on JewishMythology.com retell how Jewish tradition imagines humanity, 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 Adam existed, the angels debated whether humans deserved to live. God ended the deadlock by burying Truth in the earth.
At the Tower of Babel, a dropped brick drew weeping from the workers. A dead worker drew nothing. This is what empire looks like inside.
