Parshat Bereshit

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Covers the creation of the world in six days, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, the first sin, Cain and Abel, and the generations from Adam to Noah. Genesis 1:1-6:8.

Midrash Tanchuma, Noach 1

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Noach 1

[These are the generations of Noah (Gen. 6:9).] May it please our master to instruct us concerning the number of transgressions for which women die during childbirth. Thus have our...

Noah & Flood

Midrash Tanchuma, Noach 2

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Noach 2

These are the generations of Noah (Gen. 6:9). R. Tanhuma the son of Abba began the discussion of this subject with the verse: The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he t...

Noah & Flood

Midrash Tanchuma, Vayakhel 8

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Vayakhel 8

And Bezalel made the ark of acacia-wood (Exod. 37:1). Because it was known to Him-who-spoke-and-the-world-came into-being that Israel will sin at Shittim, the Holy One, blessed be ...

Noah & Flood

Midrash Tanchuma, Kedoshim 2

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Kedoshim 2

(Lev. 19:2:) “You shall be holy, for I am holy.” The Holy One, blessed be He, said to Israel, “Before I created My world, the ministering angels praised My name through you and san...

Adam & EveHoly Land

Midrash Tanchuma, Nasso 16

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Nasso 16

(Numb. 7:1), “So it came to pass on the day that Moses had finished.” Rav says, “Every place where it is stated, ‘So it came to pass (wayehi),’ [is referring to] something new”; bu...

Adam & EveMoses

Daniel's Night Vision

Tree of Souls

The prophet Daniel had such a dream. It's recorded in the Book of Daniel, and it's a vision that’s puzzled and inspired readers for centuries. "As I looked on," Daniel recounts, "t...

CreationAngelsHeavenPatriarchs

God's Crown Of Prayers

Tree of Souls

Jewish tradition offers a stunningly beautiful image: Our prayers, all of them, rise up and become a crown for God. The image comes to us from several sources, each adding its own ...

CreationAngelsHeavenAdam & Eve

The First Being

Tree of Souls

It’s a question that's haunted philosophers and theologians for millennia, and Jewish tradition definitely has some answers. At the very heart of it all, there is ONE God. Absolute...

CreationAngelsHeavenTorah

The Hidden God

Tree of Souls

Where is God? Have you ever stopped to truly consider that question? It seems simple, almost childlike. But the deeper you delve, the more mysterious it becomes. The mystics of our...

AngelsHeavenAdam & EveNoah & Flood