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Specifically, the verse in Chapter 7, verse 20: "For there is not a righteous man upon the earth, who does good, and does not sin." Is it saying that everyone messes up, regardless...
King Solomon, wisest of all men, apparently felt that too. Ecclesiastes 7:23 reads, "All this I attempted with wisdom; I said: I will become wise, but it is far from me." What does...
The Book of Kings tells us that Solomon "spoke three thousand proverbs" (I Kings 5:12). But wait a minute... when we actually read through the Bible, how many proverbs do we find a...
Sometimes, the explanations seem… unexpected, even poetic. to a passage from Kohelet Rabbah, a collection of rabbinic interpretations on the Book of Ecclesiastes, where we explore ...
Today, we’re diving into a story from Kohelet Rabbah, a collection of rabbinic interpretations of the Book of Ecclesiastes, where we see just such a situation unfold. The story cen...
The book of Ecclesiastes, or Kohelet in Hebrew, certainly thought so, at least in one rather pointed verse. "I find more bitter than death," it says, "the woman whose heart is snar...
Kohelet Rabbah, a fascinating collection of rabbinic interpretations on the Book of Ecclesiastes, dives deep into this, exploring the nature of suffering and strength. It starts wi...
The passage centers on a verse describing a certain kind of woman – a figure that becomes a symbol for temptation itself: "Whose [heart] is snares and nets." (Ecclesiastes 7:26). W...
They saw echoes and connections everywhere, even in the way the Bible phrases things. Take the book of Ecclesiastes, or Kohelet as it’s known in Hebrew. It’s full of these little l...
