Twelve Brothers — One Gone, One Too Young to Travel

Hebraic Literature (1901)Why Rosh Chodesh Was Given to the Women of IsraelThe Jewish calendar marks three pilgrimage festivals and twelve new moons. The Kitzur ShLaH explains that the three festivals correspond to the three patriarchs

Ein Yaakov, Rosh HashanahRabbi Eliezer How does He do it?This teaching in Ein Yaakov, the great anthology of Talmudic aggadah, follows a teaching of the school of Hillel about how divine judgment is weighed. The image

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on GenesisEsau's Five Transgressions on the Day Abraham DiedOf all the Targum's expansions, this one may be the darkest. Pseudo-Jonathan on (Genesis 25:29) describes the day Esau sold his birthright for a bowl of lentils

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Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on GenesisThe Idols Buried Beneath the Terebinth of Shechem"And they delivered into Jacob's hand all the idols of the people which were in their hands, which they had taken from the temple of Shekem, and the jewels that

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on GenesisReuben's Sin and the Holy Spirit's DefenseThe Torah gives us one sentence, and it is a scandal: Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine (Genesis 35:22). The sages could not bear to leave

Twelve Brothers — One Gone, One Too Young to Travel

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