5 myths
The great theological questions of Jewish thought: the nature of God, the problem of evil, free will, and the meaning of chosenness.
5 myths on JewishMythology.com retell how Jewish tradition imagines theology, 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.
Standing before his children with thirty days left on earth, Enoch says the face of God lives in every human face and insulting any person insults the original.
The angel moved from the front of the camp to the rear, set itself between Israel and Pharaoh's chariots, and a different Name rode with it.
Every time the Torah says YHVH it invokes mercy. Every time it says Elohim it invokes judgment. Moses used both together, and Sifrei Devarim asked why.
Abraham stood before Sodom and argued that justice had rules. Job sat in ashes and said the righteous and wicked were all swept away.
A Yemeni scholar received an argument that divine agents deserve worship. His response used the sun, the moon, fire, and Sinai to show why the logic collapsed.
