2 myths
Myths, legends, and mystical writings about Responsibility from across Jewish tradition.
2 myths on JewishMythology.com retell how Jewish tradition imagines responsibility, 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.

He went back and forth across the Jabbok all night moving his own freight, like a bridge. One of the things he carried over was a locked box.

A passenger set a drill to the planks under his own seat. Why do you care, he said to the hands grabbing his arm. Water was already beading at the bit.