Prenatal in Jewish Mythology

1 myth

The angel who teaches the soul Torah before birth and strikes it above the lip to make it forget, the legend of prenatal wisdom.

What does Prenatal mean in Jewish mythology?

The angel who teaches the soul Torah before birth and strikes it above the lip to make it forget, the legend of prenatal wisdom.

1 myth on JewishMythology.com retell how Jewish tradition imagines prenatal, 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.

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The Black Dog That Blocked Rabbi Ishmael's Mother Eight Times

A black dog blocked Rabbi Ishmael's mother eight times on the dark path from the bath. Then Gabriel came down to the door wearing her husband's face.

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