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.

Adonibezek's Legacy

Book of Jasher Jasher 91

We read about the conquest of Canaan in the Book of Joshua, but the story doesn't quite end there. The Book of Jasher, a non-canonical Jewish text that fills in some of the gaps in...

PatriarchsJosephHoly LandShabbat

Avot DeRabbi Natan 15

Midrash Aggadah Avot DeRabbi Natan 15

THEY EACH SAID THREE THINGS. R. ELIEZER SAID: LET THE HONOUR OF YOUR FELLOW BE DEAR TO YOU AS YOUR OWN; BE NOT EASILY MOVED TO ANGER; REPENT ONE DAY BEFORE YOUR DEATH.LET THE HONOU...

Torah

Avot DeRabbi Natan 18

Midrash Aggadah Avot DeRabbi Natan 18

Likewise1This passage links up with the dictum in Aboth 2:11 (Sonc. ed., II, 8, p. 18) where Rabban Joḥanan b. Zakkai recounts the distinctive qualifications of his five foremost d...

Torah

Avot DeRabbi Natan 19

Midrash Aggadah Avot DeRabbi Natan 19

‘Aḳabya b. Mahalalel said: Whosoever takes four things to heart1Cf. Aboth 3:1 (Sonc. ed., p. 26) where the more popular version reads: ‘Consider three things’, etc., omitting the t...

Torah

Avot DeRabbi Natan 20

Midrash Aggadah Avot DeRabbi Natan 20

R. Ḥananiah, the deputy High Priest,1In Aboth 3:2 (Sonc. ed., p. 27) there is a different saying attributed to ‘R. Ḥanina, the deputy High Priest’, and in III, 5 (Sonc. ed., III, 5...

Judgment

Avot DeRabbi Natan 22

Midrash Aggadah Avot DeRabbi Natan 22

R. ḤANINA B. DOSA SAID: HE WHOSE FEAR OF SIN COMES BEFORE HIS WISDOM, HIS WISDOM SHALL ENDURE; [BUT HE WHOSE WISDOM COMES BEFORE HIS FEAR OF SIN, HIS WISDOM SHALL NOT ENDURE,] as i...

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Avot DeRabbi Natan 27

Midrash Aggadah Avot DeRabbi Natan 27

R. JOSE SAID: HE WHO HONOURS THE TORAH IS HIMSELF HONOURED BY MANKIND, as it is stated, For them that honour Me I will honour, and they that despise Me shall be lightly esteemed.11...

Judgment

Avot DeRabbi Natan 34

Midrash Aggadah Avot DeRabbi Natan 34

WITH TEN TRIALS DID THE HOLY ONE, BLESSED BE HE, TEST OUR FATHERS,1According to the MSS. and Aboth 5:7 (Sonc. ed., V, 4, p. 60) the statement is reversed: ‘With ten trials did our ...

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Avot DeRabbi Natan 38

Midrash Aggadah Avot DeRabbi Natan 38

SEVEN KINDS OF PUNISHMENT COME UPON THE WORLD FOR SEVEN CARDINAL TRANSGRESSIONS. IF SOME GIVE THEIR TITHES AND OTHERS DO NOT, THERE COMES A FAMINE THROUGH DROUGHT.1Aboth 5:11 (Sonc...

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