3 myths
Myths, legends, and mystical writings about Wind from across Jewish tradition.
3 myths on JewishMythology.com retell how Jewish tradition imagines wind, 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.
Solomon flew on a carpet 60 miles wide and praised his own power. The wind dropped 40,000 men until the king learned one word again.
A min boasts that no one commands the wind. A rabbi walks him into an open field, prays, and the air goes dead still.
Rabbi Yochanan and Resh Lakish argue where clouds begin, while the wind circles and the stars keep the moon's night watch.
