2 myths
Myths, legends, and mystical writings about Rabbah Bar Bar Chana from across Jewish tradition.
2 myths on JewishMythology.com retell how Jewish tradition imagines rabbah bar bar chana, 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.
Bava Batra remembers Rabbah bar bar Chana on seas where one dead fish destroyed sixty cities, and fiery waves could only be calmed by the Name.
A caravan merchant guides Rabbah past giant sleepers and a mourning Sinai to the window where the turning sky pockets his basket of bread.
