2 myths
Myths, legends, and mystical writings about Souls from across Jewish tradition.
2 myths on JewishMythology.com retell how Jewish tradition imagines souls, 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.
At the topmost point of heaven the Throne of Glory burns sapphire-blue, and above it Aravot keeps the dew of resurrection and the unborn locked away.
A year in the pyres burns the wicked to ash that the wind scatters, then their souls return and they rise blackened to confess the sentence.
