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We read about Adam and Eve having another son, Seth, and suddenly, he's the one carrying the torch, the one from whom humanity will descend. What gives? The Midrash of Philo, a fas...
Doors that can swing wide open into the most incredible stories. Take Enoch, for example. Genesis 5:22 tells us, "Enoch pleased God after he begat Methuselah, two hundred years.” O...
One fascinating perspective comes to us from a text known as The Midrash of Philo. Now, when we say "midrash," we're talking about a particular style of Jewish storytelling – a way...
The ones that make you stop and say, "Wait, what exactly does that mean?" I was pondering just such a detail the other day, specifically about Enoch. You know, the one who "walked ...
Philo of Alexandria, a Jewish philosopher living in Roman Egypt, certainly thought so. He delved into the numerical symbolism of the Torah, seeking hidden meanings within the seemi...
It’s easy to just chalk it up to ancient myths, but what if there's more to it? What if those numbers are telling us something deeper? That’s exactly what I was pondering when I st...
Day and night, up and down... Does it ever feel like there's a deeper meaning to it all? Well, let's dive into a fascinating little passage from The Midrash of Philo (specifically,...
Let's delve into a fascinating interpretation from the writings attributed to Philo of Alexandria, a Jewish philosopher from the first century. Our focus today is on a seemingly si...
You know, Enoch, the seventh generation from Adam? The one who, according to Genesis 5:24, simply "was not, for God took him." A verse so simple, yet so… strange. What does it even...
