4 myths
Avodah, the service of God: from the sacrifices of the Temple to the prayers that replaced them and the inner devotion of the heart.
4 myths on JewishMythology.com retell how Jewish tradition imagines worship, 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.
God pierced a hole into Gehinnom (afterlife of judgment) that morning to make the heat unbearable. Then He told the angels they were all going down to visit a.
A Samaritan stopped him on the road with a question about the Flood, and the rabbi had nothing. The man holding his reins asked for permission to speak.
Holofernes marches with fire and orders to cut down sacred groves so every tongue will call Nebuchadnezzar by the name above all names.
Take your son, your only son. Abraham answered with two names until Heaven spoke Isaac, then walked three days past a river Satan raised.
