Parshat Bereshit

7,771 related texts · Page 726 of 864

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, Beshalach 15

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Beshalach 15

Thy right hand, O Lord (Exod. 15:6). This verse indicates that the Lord’s right hand is stretched out to receive repentant sinners. Though You set a time for the generation of the ...

Torah

Midrash Tanchuma, Beshalach 17

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Beshalach 17

The deeps were congealed (Exod. 15:8). He fashioned them into a kind of vault. In the heart of the sea (ibid.). Where is a man’s heart located? It is located just above two thirds ...

Torah

Midrash Tanchuma, Beshalach 22

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Beshalach 22

Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb (Exod. 17:6). The Holy One, blessed be He, said to him: Wherever you find the imprint of a man’s foot, there I stand b...

Torah

Midrash Tanchuma, Beshalach 27

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Beshalach 27

17:10–11). Could the hand of Moses actually wage war or cause a war to cease? This indicates that whenever the Israelites glanced upward and directed their hearts to their Father i...

Death

Midrash Tanchuma, Yitro 10

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Yitro 10

In the third month (Exod. 19:1). Scripture says elsewhere in allusion to this verse: Have I not written unto thee excellent things (shilshom) of counsels and knowledge (Prov. 22:20...

Torah

Midrash Tanchuma, Yitro 12

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Yitro 12

And God spoke all these words (Exod. 20:1). He spoke them all simultaneously. He causes death and restores life at the same time; He wounds and He heals simultaneously; He answers ...

Death

Midrash Tanchuma, Yitro 13

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Yitro 13

And the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace (Exod. 19:18). What furnace? Perhaps it is comparable to this furnace? Therefore Scripture says: And the mountain burned wi...

Torah

Midrash Tanchuma, Mishpatim 16

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Mishpatim 16

If thou at all take thy neighbor’s garment to pledge (Exod. 22:25). The Holy One, blessed be He, declared: How guilty are your sins before Me, yet I have been patient with you. And...

Torah

Midrash Tanchuma, Terumah 1

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Terumah 1

That they take for me an offering (Exod. 25:2). May it please our masters to teach us: What did they do with the surplus offering?1The surplus offering was from the funds contribut...

Death