3 myths
Myths, legends, and mystical writings about Humanity from across Jewish tradition.
3 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.

The angels voted. Love said yes, Truth and Peace said no. God overruled them, threw Truth to the ground, and created humanity anyway.

A woman went into labor in the brickyard at Shinar. She gave birth where she stood, tied the baby against her body with a sheet, and kept working.

The first man rose from earth to firmament. Angels mistook him for a second power, until God pressed him down to a creature's height.