2 myths
Hidden things in Jewish tradition: concealed wisdom, divine hiddenness, secret teachings, and the limits of what human beings are permitted to know.
2 myths on JewishMythology.com retell how Jewish tradition imagines mystery, 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.
Six hundred thousand people backed away from Sinai saying the voice would kill them if it spoke again. Moses was told to come closer.
Elders break a heifer in a barren valley, and worms rise from the rite to crawl straight toward a living murderer.
