2 myths
Myths, legends, and mystical writings about Theodicy from across Jewish tradition.
2 myths on JewishMythology.com retell how Jewish tradition imagines theodicy, 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.
The nations gave their gods armies, taxes, and the fat of sacrifices. Rabbi Yehudah said a reckoning was coming and the gods would have nothing to show for it.
Job took his cry for God's abode as an address and marched east, west, south, and north, while the presence stood unseen in the west.
