36 myths · Page 2 of 2
Heretics pressed R. Simlai on plural God-words. He answered with singular verbs. Akiva filled every et (את), the direct-object mark, with a whole world.
A student skips the simple passages for flashier law until the Sifrei warns that empty Torah is empty only because he emptied it.
Summoned before Rome's ruler and governor, Rabbi Akiva flings a fortune in medicine to the pigs and shows why God left the world unfinished.
In seven palaces of fire the chariots pass the sanctus upward, but the whole burning host must wait in silence until Israel sings the first note.
Rabbi Akiva ascended into the Power and came back with a census of heaven's bridges, rivers of fire, and the vast parasangs guarding the road to God.
Et (את) marks the object of a Hebrew verb. Shimon HaAmsoni read every et as an inclusion until fear of God left nothing else to add.
