159 myths · Page 6 of 6
Thieves replaced his gift to Rome with dirt, and when the emperor opened the box, Nahum said what he always said: this too is for good.
Beruriah's father had been burned alive for teaching Torah, and her sister was in a Roman brothel, so she told her husband to go and bring her back.
Hanina ben Dosa heals sick sons, lights vinegar, and survives poverty while heaven bends to meet his unbroken confidence.
A beadle crosses the stone-hurling Sambatyon on Shabbat to reach the lost tribes, nearly dies for it, and returns with help for Polish Jewry.
A city has twenty days before a king destroys it. On day seventeen, an old man rides to Tiberias for Rabbi Meir and the road folds overnight.
A drowned man tells Akiva about the bread he once gave away. A snake on a killing errand lets Meir run ahead and stop it.
The rabbis called the victories over Sihon and Og equal to the Red Sea. The weapon God used was not fire or flood but two divine hornets.
Joshua went to war for people who had deceived him, and God rewarded his integrity by freezing the sun in the sky until the battle was won.
A lone Sabbath traveler is guarded by a bear while his companions die; a pious cow refuses to plow for a new master on the holy day.
