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Our tale picks up with Daniel, the wise and righteous figure we all know, receiving a crucial task. According to Legends of the Jews, it was a divine charge, no less! He was instru...
There's a story told in Legends of the Jews – a masterful compilation by Rabbi Louis Ginzberg – about the aftermath of Daniel’s time and the legacy he left behind. It speaks of a h...
The legends certainly suggest it. Take Ezra, for example. He wasn't just a scribe, not just a leader bringing the Torah back to life after the Babylonian exile. He was, according t...
Our tradition teaches that wisdom isn't just something you're born with. It's something you actively seek, something you pray for, something you might even… fast for. The Midrash M...
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...
We stumble upon one such instance in Bamidbar Rabbah, specifically in chapter 6. It concerns the census of the Kehatites, a clan within the Leviim (Levites). The text points out so...
Our journey begins with a rather dramatic scene from Numbers 5:21, describing the ritual of the sotah, the woman suspected of adultery. The priest says, "May the Lord render you as...
This Midrash, or interpretive commentary on the Book of Numbers, opens with a verse about the nazir, someone who takes a vow to abstain from certain pleasures, like cutting their h...
Today, we're diving into a fascinating story from Bamidbar Rabbah 10, a section of the larger Midrash Rabbah, a collection of rabbinic homilies and interpretations of the Torah. It...
