3 myths
The great reversals of Jewish narrative: the slave who becomes viceroy, the condemned who are saved, and the hidden hand of God.
3 myths on JewishMythology.com retell how Jewish tradition imagines reversal, 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.
The king asked what a deserving man should receive. Haman assumed the question was about him and answered in detail. He was wrong.
Haman found Mordecai deep in Torah study and told him to rise. Then he confessed that Mordecai's prayers had defeated his ten thousand talents of silver.
A trusting man is cheated of his food and left to die in the desert, then overhears two demons trade the secret cures that make him rich.
