Midrash Aggadah

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Midrash Aggadah texts, a body of rabbinic literature devoted to the narrative, ethical, and homiletical interpretation of the Hebrew Bible. These works illuminate Scripture through stories, parables, and theological reflection.

Seder Olam Rabbah 1

Midrash Aggadah Seder Olam Rabbah 1

Chapter 1 From Adam to the Flood was 1656 years, and this is their enumeration: Adam 130, Seth 105, Enosh 90, Kenan 70, Mahalalel 65, Jared 162, Enoch 65, Methuselah 187, Lamech 18...

Seder Olam Rabbah 2

Midrash Aggadah Seder Olam Rabbah 2

Chapter 2 Our forefather Jacob was 63 when he was blessed. Ishmael died at that time as is written, "Esau saw that Isaac had blessed...Jacob listened to his father...Esau saw [the ...

Seder Olam Rabbah 3

Midrash Aggadah Seder Olam Rabbah 3

The judgment of the wicked in Gehinnom lasts twelve months, as it says “And it shall be from new moon to new moon…” (Yeshayahu 66:23) R’ Yochanan ben Nuri says: from Pesach until A...

Seder Olam Rabbah 4

Midrash Aggadah Seder Olam Rabbah 4

The Flood was all of twelve months,1R. Eliyahu from Vilna explains that according to Seder Olam a year about which no details are given is a simple, regular year of 354 days follow...

Seder Olam Rabbah 5

Midrash Aggadah Seder Olam Rabbah 5

All seven days was the Holy One, praised be He, speaking with Moses at the thornbush,1R. Eliyahu from Vilna explains that the statement "all seven days" is based on a simple comput...

Seder Olam Rabbah 6

Midrash Aggadah Seder Olam Rabbah 6

On the seventh day after the Ten Commandments Moshe went up on the mountain, as it says "The Presence of the LORD abode on Mount Sinai, and the cloud hid it for six days..." (Shemo...

Seder Olam Rabbah 7

Midrash Aggadah Seder Olam Rabbah 7

"And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation. And thou shalt put therein the ark of ...

Seder Olam Rabbah 8

Midrash Aggadah Seder Olam Rabbah 8

"And the Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year..." (Numbers 1:1).1Guggen...

Seder Olam Rabbah 9

Midrash Aggadah Seder Olam Rabbah 9

Chapter 9 They [the Israelites]--the entire congregation--came to the wilderness of Tzin in the first month, and the nation settled there, and Miriam died there and was buried ther...