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It’s a universal feeling, and it echoes through the ages, even finding its voice in the ancient stories of our people. Imagine the scene: The Jewish people are in exile, far from t...
Turns out, it does! And like any good friend, it’s got some warnings mixed in with the… well, potential for celebration. This all comes to light in a fascinating passage from Midra...
Bamidbar Rabbah, the rabbinic commentary on the Book of Numbers, dives right into this question with a surprisingly poetic starting point. The verse we're looking at is "The Lord s...
That's the situation the sons of Kehat found themselves in, in the Book of Numbers. Our story begins in Bamidbar Rabbah, specifically section 5, which delves into the passage about...
In the Book of Numbers, Bamidbar, we read about how the Kehatites, a family within the tribe of Levi, had the unique and profoundly important task of carrying the Ark of the Covena...
It wasn't just about following instructions; it was about life and death. A fascinating passage in Bamidbar Rabbah 5 delves into the story of the sons of Kehat, whose job it was to...
Leprosy, for example, wasn't just a disease. According to some Jewish traditions, it could be a sign of something deeper, a consequence of wrongdoing. But what wrongdoing specifica...
to a fascinating passage from Bamidbar Rabbah 9, a midrash, or interpretation, on the Book of Numbers. This passage grapples with the laws surrounding a wife suspected of infidelit...
There’s a fascinating passage in Bamidbar Rabbah – that's the collection of rabbinic interpretations on the Book of Numbers – that dives right into this, focusing on the case of th...
