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.

Midrash Tanchuma, Vayishlach 10

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And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came from Padan-aram (Gen. 35:9). May it please our master to teach us: What is the punishment meted out to one who does not permit the p...

Judgment

Midrash Tanchuma, Vayeshev 1

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Vayeshev 1

And Jacob sat in the land (Gen. 37:1). Whenever Scripture uses the expression and he sat (also translated “and he dwelt”), it connotes misfortune: And Israel sat in the land of Egy...

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Midrash Tanchuma, Vayeshev 2

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37:3). The “son of his features” (ikunim, playing on zikunim, “old age”), for he resembled his father very closely. R. Ishmael said: He was called the son of his old age because Jo...

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Midrash Tanchuma, Vayeshev 3

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Vayeshev 3

And Joseph was brought down into Egypt (Gen. 39:1). May it please our master to teach us whether one may recite the Havdalah prayer at the expiration of the Sabbath with a light us...

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Midrash Tanchuma, Vayeshev 4

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Vayeshev 4

And Joseph was brought down into Egypt (Gen. 39:1). Scripture states elsewhere in reference to this verse: Come and see the works of God; he acts circuitously in His doings toward ...

Death

Midrash Tanchuma, Vayeshev 5

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Vayeshev 5

And it came to pass after these things (Gen. 40:1). May our master teach us which men are counted among the most faithful. Thus did our master teach us: There are three men who are...

Torah

Midrash Tanchuma, Vayeshev 6

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Vayeshev 6

And it came to pass after these things (Gen. 40:1). Scripture states elsewhere in reference to this verse: And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and ne...

Death

Midrash Tanchuma, Vayeshev 7

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Vayeshev 7

His master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph (Gen. 38:7). Scripture states elsewhere in allusion to this verse: Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and they that indulge ...

Joseph

Midrash Tanchuma, Vayeshev 8

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Vayeshev 8

But he refused, and said unto his master’s wife (Gen. 39:8). Scripture states elsewhere in reference to this verse: Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord (Jer. 17:7). You fi...

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