2 myths
Myths, legends, and mystical writings about Sun and Moon from across Jewish tradition.
2 myths on JewishMythology.com retell how Jewish tradition imagines sun and moon, 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.
Before the sun rises each morning it approaches God and waits, its eyes dimmed by divine presence, until it receives permission to shine.
In the months of Tammuz and Av, a psalm about protection becomes a map of demons that own the daylight heat and the moonlit dark.
