2 myths
Myths, legends, and mystical writings about Theft from across Jewish tradition.
2 myths on JewishMythology.com retell how Jewish tradition imagines theft, 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.
When the silver cup turned up in his sack, his brothers called Benjamin a thief. He answered with a question about the kid of the goats.
Robbing one coin is equal to killing, says Vayikra Rabbah. Saul's erasure of Nov shows what happens when a king mistakes the reach of power for justice.
