2 myths
Myths, legends, and mystical writings about Teachers from across Jewish tradition.
2 myths on JewishMythology.com retell how Jewish tradition imagines teachers, 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.
Twelve thousand of his students died in the seven weeks between Passover and Shavuot. Akiva was left with seven men, and he told them why the others died.
A newborn clamps on the world as if it could be owned. A corpse opens empty palms. Wisdom, Ben Sira says, still grows in the belly of the faithful.
