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Yes, you heard right. Avodah, worship, is the secret ingredient to creation itself. That’s the claim made in Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer, and it's a pretty bold one, isn't it? Rabbi Isa...
They’re a group shrouded in some mystery, especially when we try to fit them into the neat categories we often create for ancient peoples. The Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer, a fascinating...
The text from Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer, chapter 45, sheds some light. The Rabbi points out that "All the princes were not associated in the affair of the calf." Where do we see this?...
Jewish tradition has an answer, a fascinating and somewhat unsettling one, and it involves the very corners of the earth. Imagine the world as a sort of cosmic compass. According t...
It’s a theme that echoes throughout Jewish history, a bittersweet dance between redemption and exile. that a bit. The Yalkut Shimoni, a compilation of Midrashic teachings, highligh...
The story of Haman, the villain of the Purim story, is full of them. And according to the Yalkut Shimoni, a compilation of rabbinic commentary on the Bible, Haman's plot to annihil...
Specifically, we're looking at section 788 on the Book of Numbers, where the text grapples with a seemingly simple verse: "Every strike that takes a life requires witnesses" (Numbe...
Jewish tradition certainly grapples with this idea, especially when considering the long and often painful history of exile. In the Yalkut Shimoni, a compilation of rabbinic commen...
It’s not as simple as drawing lines on a map! Sifrei Bamidbar, a collection of rabbinic legal interpretations on the Book of Numbers, sheds some light on this. We learn that when t...
