310 myths · Page 11 of 11
The tablets were already broken. Moses hit the ground with dust in his teeth and would not stand until the sentence on the camp softened.
Dust sat in his hair. Absalom had the counselor. David did not ask for a general blessing. He asked heaven to look at him and no one else.
Called twice at the bush, Moses later refuses an anonymous escort after the calf. He bargains for names until heaven confirms his goodly name and grants the…
She had not eaten in three days. The corridor narrowed toward the king's face. Behind her, Haman's silver already sat in the account.
Four men were handed the same rod. Abraham was played with until God said enough. Hezekiah pressed his face to the wall and got fifteen years.
Judah's mightiest king rose from his throne for every scholar, then met an impossible siege not with his sword but with one cry to heaven.
A newly dead man reaches the gates of Gehenna (afterlife of judgment), where a fierce angel decides who is scorched and who is spared across seven descending.
On the third day every plant rose to the lip of the soil and stopped, waiting beneath the ground for the first mouth that would know to ask heaven for rain.
Nehunya sent a prayer past every keeper to the beings who carry the Throne of Glory, and a horn answered from beyond the last firmament.
Six words of the Shema go up in full voice. The next line drops to a murmur, as if Israel were wearing stolen stones in a locked room.
