8 myths
Jehoiakim sat in the winter house and fed Jeremiah's columns to the brazier. Three officials begged him to stop. No one in the room tore his clothes.
The brothers held out a coat stiff with goat blood. Jacob named it his son's. Twenty-two years later the sackcloth was still on him.
The people carry two names, Jacob and Israel. Lamentations uses only Jacob when it describes ruin, and Resh Lakish wanted to know why.
A rabbi enters a Roman prison to test a captive child with a verse, and what the boy answers changes the course of a life.
The richest woman in Jerusalem lays carpets from her door to the Temple so her feet never touch the ground, until one day they must.
A mother once gave her son's weight in gold to the Temple. When Jerusalem starved, the siege turned that gift inside out.
Yohanan was in the water when the bandit came after him. He offered his sister if the man would study. The weapons stayed on the bank.
Nebuchadnezzar's arrows all turned toward Jerusalem. When his army arrived it found blood in the Temple courtyard still boiling after centuries of waiting.
