Stories & Legendsסיפורים ואגדות
Aggadot, parables, lives, and wonder-tales gathered from across the five wisdom traditions — the Talmud, Midrash, Zohar, and Hasidic masters; the Greek and Roman world; the Fathers of the Church; the Islamic tradition; and the Buddhist canon. Search by a name, animal, place, or theme.
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- Nero's arrows fall on Jerusalem from every directionTalmud, Gittin
- The oven of Akhnai and Israel's great disputesTalmudic tradition
- The frogs of Egypt multiply in Pharaoh's chambersZohar
- The mystical wall Alexander built against Gog and MagogZohar tradition
- R. Yehoshua ben Chananyah debates the wise men of AthensTalmud, Bekhorot
- Rabbah bar bar Chana's giant fish in the seaRebbe Nachman
- The redemption of the exiled tribes beyond the SambatyonYalkut Shimoni
- David humbled by a frog's reproof at the riverbankZohar