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Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer, a fascinating and sometimes enigmatic text, sheds light on this very question. It tells us that the sun marks the days, and the moon the nights, their cycle...
Like the calendar is just... off? Well, our ancestors in Egypt felt that way too. And it all ties into a fascinating, and often overlooked, concept: the Jewish calendar and the pra...
Our ancestors grappled with this too. And the way they dealt with it, according to ancient texts, is pretty darn fascinating. We're talking about intercalation, a process of adding...
Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer, in chapter 8, touches on just that. It paints a picture of a world where the connection to the Holy One, blessed be He, isn't always a given. It suggests th...
And one of the most fascinating pieces of that puzzle is the concept of intercalation – adding an extra month to the calendar in certain years to keep our lunar calendar aligned wi...
Today, let's dive into one tiny slice of that abundance: the birds. Specifically, how Jewish tradition imagines their creation on the fifth day of… well, Creation! Pirkei DeRabbi E...
God is bringing forth life in abundance, filling the waters with all kinds of fish, male and female, both clean and unclean. But how do we tell the difference? How do we know what’...
Rabbi Eliezer certainly did. to one of his intriguing interpretations from Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer, chapter 9. It all starts with a seemingly straightforward verse from Genesis 1:20...
In chapter 9, we find a surprisingly vivid image comparing rivers to the people of Israel. : rivers, in their natural course, are a blessing. As the text says, "All rivers flowing ...
