42 myths · Page 2 of 2
God answers a request for a sample of the World to Come by pointing at Shabbat, then doubles wick-light and bread.
In a roaring market Elijah refuses the scholars and points first to a prison warder, then to two jesters who buy Paradise with laughter.
With nothing for the Sabbath, Rabbi Shimon ben Halafta prays until heaven drops him a jewel, and his wife warns what a borrowed treasure will cost.
The sages counted the kings and commoners shut out of eternity, and almost wrote Solomon among them, until fire drove them from the benches.
Jonadab ben Rechab bound his whole line with one oath against wine, and their dry tents outshone Israel while the cup bit like a serpent.
In the sealed dark of the womb God keeps the child from spilling, but an adulterer tells Him to step aside and the Shekhinah, the Divine Presence, draws back.
The dead rise still blind and lame so none can call them strangers, then are healed in the open while the Levite harp gains three new strings.
Before light or sea, the name and spirit of the King Messiah waited among God's treasures, sealed until the age when he judges the poor with righteousness.
At the end of days the nations are tried beside their idols, and when the carved gods fly out of the flame, angels go up after them with chains.
The world aged into ruin, Gog came up against Jerusalem, and the survivors burned his spears for seven winters before the dancing started.
Two schools fought over the order God assembles a body in, and the winner found the resurrection hiding in the tense of Job's complaint.
Rabbi Joshua ben Levi found two marble pillars wrapped against the cold in Rome, and a living man a few steps away under reed mats.
