3 myths
Myths, legends, and mystical writings about Twelve Patriarchs from across Jewish tradition.
3 myths on JewishMythology.com retell how Jewish tradition imagines twelve patriarchs, 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.
He sat up on the bed in his sons' house in Egypt and kissed each of them on the mouth. Then he told them his liver had never once moved for his brother.
The brothers spread a meal beside the pit. One of them could not swallow anything, so they made him the guard and he watched the sale.
On the Mount of Olives, Naphtali watched his brothers race to seize the sun and moon. His two visions mapped the whole future of Israel and its exile.
