3 myths
Myths, legends, and mystical writings about Parenting from across Jewish tradition.
3 myths on JewishMythology.com retell how Jewish tradition imagines parenting, 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.
A man gathering firewood in the forest was dead. He burned in Gehinnom (afterlife of judgment) because of a shared sin, and only his son's voice in the.
Six months in the womb, then three months hidden in the house. By the time Egypt came looking for a newborn boy, the child was already a season old.
A young man lets his face warm toward dangerous friends. The road they take steals his mothers joy and turns Torah study into dust under his heels.
