49 myths · Page 2 of 2
The noblewoman wanted more than baskets. Rav Kahana asked for a moment to prepare himself, then climbed the stairs she had not meant him to use.
Denounced for hiding twelve thousand students from the poll-tax, Rabbah ran through the marshes of Babylonia until heaven itself summoned him.
He paid four hundred coins and crossed the sea for one forbidden night, then his own fringes rose up and slapped him off the bed.
A Roman emperor dares the sages to prove scattered dust can live, and they answer with clay, shattered glass, and a grain of wheat.
The rabbis counted six fires that break the rules of burning. Then a mountain of flame found David asleep in a forest and refused to consume him.
Trayanos told the two bound brothers to beg God for a rescue like the one in Nebuchadnezzar's furnace. They said no. They were not that righteous.
Come, the merchant said, and I will show you where earth and the sky kiss. Rabbah followed him past the last caravan road.
A blind man and a lame man strip the kings figs, then each blames the other. The soul tries the same defense and learns it grew up at court.
No human hand could reach the dead master in the wilderness, so heaven posted a canopy of motionless birds to guard his body until his students came.
A man stood under a tree on the far bank, looking at nothing. He never saw the frog swimming toward him, or the passenger balanced dry on its back.
For twelve months Noah feeds every beast on its own clock, never sleeping, until the night he comes late and the lion mauls him in the dark.
Ridya stands the size of a young ox, his lower lip split open, hooves resting on nothing. Rabbah swore he watched him tell the sky to drip its water down.
A rabbi begged Elijah to show him who in the loud market had earned Paradise. The prophet pointed at two clowns, and holiness turned over.
In a drought fast, Rav Yehuda barely began the rite of removing a shoe before the sky opened, while later sages cried and the clouds stayed shut.
He walked to his uncle's door certain the dream meant death. Rabbi Ishmael looked at the terror and called the falling limbs a harvest.
The heretic pointed at Ameimar's belt as if one body could be two kingdoms. Water still had to pass through a single skin.
Hooligans bait Rabbi Meir until he prays for their deaths. Beruria stops his mouth mid-curse, flips one word in a psalm, and forces mercy to finish the verse.
He woke with iron on his tongue and a silent king in the doorway. Three men by the study door spoke the night into a shape he could walk.
Et (את) marks the object of a Hebrew verb. Shimon HaAmsoni read every et as an inclusion until fear of God left nothing else to add.
