Oral Torah in Jewish Mythology

3 myths

Each story names the sources it was written from.

Myth 5 min

Moses Entered the Tent and the Law Began

The mountain had gone quiet. Israel had tablets and no way to live them. Moses walked into the Tent, and God called him by name.

SinaiTorahMosesOral TorahKabbalah
Myth 4 min

Shammai Drove the Stranger Away and Hillel Proved the Point With Aleph

A non-Jew demanded the whole Torah in one lesson. Shammai refused. Hillel accepted and then reversed the alphabet to win the argument.

ConversionTorahShammaiHillelOral TorahTorah LawTrustDivorce
Myth 5 min

Akiva Converted His Jailers and Smuggled the Law Past the Bars

She came into the cell to break the old man on the floor. He kept the fasts the prison could not stop. She left belonging to his God.

Rabbi AkivaHadrianic PersecutionMartyrdomConversionOral TorahRoman PrisonYochanan Ben Nuri