74 passages in Rabbinic Midrash
Individual passages from Yalkut Shimoni, shown in source order. Page 2 of 2.
Rabbi Yehoshua of Sikhnin said in the name of Rabbi Levi: Great is peace for all blessings are sealed with peace: The reading of the Shema, "spreads the shelter of peace." The [sta...
[Ed. "Menorah" down below should probably be Menuda. "Chazar l'Suro", is the only time in Chazal that that form appears. It appears frequently, also in regard to converts, as Chaza...
“Take the staff…” (Bamidbar 20:8) This is what the scripture says “The staff of your might the Lord will send from Zion…” (Psalms 110:2) This is the staff which was in the hand of ...
Rabbi Shim'on ben Lakish, the third-century sage known as Resh Lakish, makes one of the boldest identifications in rabbinic literature: Pinhas is Elijah. Pinhas, the grandson of Aa...
The Yalkut Shimoni, the great medieval anthology that gathers midrashic comment verse by verse, reads the opening of the daughters of Tzelophchad with care. The Torah introduces th...
Parashat Masei These are the journeys of the children of Israel. The Lord said to Moses, "Write down the journeys that the Israelites have taken in the wilderness, so that they may...
Moses had the worst errand of his life. God told him to bring his brother up the mountain to die. He could not bring himself to say the words. Aaron said them for him. "My brother,...
In ancient Israel, a person who killed someone by accident did not go free. Neither was he executed. He ran for his life to one of six cities of refuge, and the roads that led ther...
Pray let me cross over. The word nah indicates that this is a request. the good land that is on the other side of the Jordan. This is what R’ Yehudah meant when he said that the la...
“They still bear fruit in old age” (Ps. 92:15). Rabbi Yehoshua ben Korḥa said: [The verse refers to] one who produces foolish behavior (nivim). There was an incident involving a ma...
Another explanation: And you will quickly perish (Deuteronomy 11:17), exile after exile. And thus do you find with the ten tribes, exile after exile. And thus do you find with the ...
3 The Staff of Your Strength G-d shall send forth from Zion. Which staff is this? This is the staff of Jacob about which it is said: "Because with my staff I crossed this Jordan." ...
“For you have not yet come…” (Devarim 12:9) this was said in order to permit private altars between the ‘resting place’ and the ‘inheritance’, because the resting place refers to S...
"From the kingship of the hypocritical man from the snares of the people" (Job 34:30) Abba Gurion, from Sidon, said five things in the name of Rabban Gamliel: (1) When lying judges...
See [Hen], God is beyond reach in His power (Job 36:22): Rav Berakhiah said, "It is in the Greek language [as hen means one]. It is as you say, One is our God: Exalted in His power...
This teaching is part of a series in which the sages set the triumphant words of Moses at the Exodus against the mournful words of Jeremiah at the fall of Jerusalem, drawing out ho...
The passage comes from a sustained midrashic exercise in the Yalkut Shimoni, the great medieval anthology that gathers earlier rabbinic comments verse by verse across the whole Bib...
This teaching continues the series in which the sages match the words of Moses at the redemption from Egypt against the words spoken over the exile from Jerusalem, so that each mar...
This teaching belongs to a series in which the sages set the words of Moses beside the words of Jeremiah, measuring the redemption from Egypt against the destruction of Jerusalem. ...
The midrash sets two departures of Israel side by side, and the contrast between them is meant to wound and to instruct. When Israel went out of Egypt under the leadership of Moses...
This teaching, like its companion, places two departures of Israel beside one another so that the height of the first throws the depth of the second into sharp relief. When Israel ...
This teaching is one link in the Yalkut Shimoni's chain of contrasts between the redemption from Egypt and the destruction of Jerusalem, an anthology device in which a verse celebr...
This account stands within the Yalkut Shimoni's extended series of contrasts between the Exodus from Egypt and the expulsion from Jerusalem, in which the anthology pairs a verse of...
This midrash from the Yalkut Shimoni places two departures side by side to expose how Israel's fortunes reversed across history. When the people left Egypt, freed from bondage at t...
This comment from the Yalkut Shimoni, the great medieval gathering of midrash on the books of the Bible, opens the scroll of Esther by pausing over its very first scene. The verse ...
He cast the pur - that is, the lot: Rabbi Chama bar Chanina said, "It was taught [that] when it fell out in the month of Adar, [Haman] rejoiced with great joy: He said, 'The lot fe...
