Parenting in Jewish Mythology

3 myths

Each story names the sources it was written from.

Myth 4 min

Rabbi Yochanan Ben Zakkai Taught a Dead Man's Son the Barekhu

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.

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Parshat Shemot 5 min

Jochebed Hid Moses Before Pharaoh's Watchers Could Count

The watchers came on the month the ledger named. They found a daughter, a small son, and no baby. The infant was already on the river.

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Myth 5 min

When a Son Walked the Road of Evil Friends

He smiled before he meant to. The friends had already taken the lane. His mother kept a lamp and a plate he would not eat.

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