The People Believe and Bow When They Hear God Has Remembered

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on ExodusGod Heard Every Hebrew Scream From the Kilns"And He said, The oppression of My people who are in Mizraim is verily manifest before Me, and heard before Me is their cry on account of them who hold them in

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on ExodusKeep the Brick Quota - Pharaoh's Punishment for Idle ClamorPharaoh's response to the slaves' religious request is to tighten the screws. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan preserves the logic with cruel precision: the (same) number

Mekhilta DeRabbi Shimon Ben YochaiMy Anger Shall Burn and the Five Forms of Punishment"My anger shall burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows and your children fatherless" (Exodus 22:23). The sages mapped the thre

Hebraic Literature (1901)Jacob's Prayer Against the Desires of the Wicked EsauRav Yitzchak asked: what did David mean when he wrote, Grant not, O Lord, the desires of the wicked; further not his wicked device, lest they exalt themselves.

The Exempla of the Rabbis (1924)The Wicked Man Who Earned Paradise in One HourGaster's exemplum No. 348 preserves a Jewish folk tale about the strangest accounting in the heavenly court. A wicked man died and was brought before the Holy O

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on GenesisThe Generation of Enosh Invents Idolatry by God's NameThe Torah says, about the generation of Enosh, "then men began to call upon the name of the Lord." The Targumist reads this exactly the opposite way. Targum Pse

The People Believe and Bow When They Hear God Has Remembered

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