2 myths
Myths, legends, and mystical writings about Refuge from across Jewish tradition.
2 myths on JewishMythology.com retell how Jewish tradition imagines refuge, 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.
Jacob flees east from Esau, sleeps on the bare ground, and finds the place where a ladder connects earth to heaven in his own dream.
God banishes Adam instead of killing him on the spot, and Bamidbar Rabbah reads Eden's eastern gate as the first city of refuge ever opened.
