4 passagesc. 11th century CEHebrew / AramaicCC-BY
Individual passages from Midrash Konen, indexed for close reading, source verification, and myth source-checking.
It even shows up in our ideas about Gehenna. Gehenna. It’s a loaded word. Often translated as "Hell," it’s really more complex than that. It’s a place of purification, of reckoning...
There's this beautiful image tucked away in the Midrash Konen (found in Beit ha-Midrash (rabbinic interpretive commentary) 2:25), this idea that "the wings of heaven are tied to th...
Midrash Konen turns to The Gates Of Gehenna. Gehenna, sometimes translated as Hell, isn't exactly a picnic. It's described as being in the north of the world, in what Midrash Konen...
We walk on solid ground, sure, but Jewish tradition sometimes whispers of other worlds, hidden realities layered beneath our own. Imagine: not just dirt and rock, but entire ecosys...
