4 myths
Myths, legends, and mystical writings about Trees from across Jewish tradition.
4 myths on JewishMythology.com retell how Jewish tradition imagines trees, 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 Adam was expelled from the Garden, God let him count the trees first. He carried out thirty kinds and planted them in the world outside.
Before Haman drove a single nail, God called a council and asked the trees of creation which one would volunteer as the instrument of Haman's destruction.
A builder on a beam answers how the world was made, and the waters revolt, the trees grow proud, and God tears the deep apart with one finger.
The teacher who watched Ben Sira answer every letter of the alphabet in sequence said creation's natural orders had changed, and Ben Sira told him he was wrong.
