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It’s a question that’s sparked debate and contemplation for millennia. According to a fascinating passage in Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 191, even the angels were curious! The text tel...
The Yalkut Shimoni, a compilation of Midrashic teachings on the entire Hebrew Bible, offers us a glimpse into that world. In section 786, commenting on the Torah, we find a beautif...
The Yalkut Shimoni, a compilation of rabbinic teachings on the Hebrew Bible, offers a fascinating and poignant glimpse into the deaths of Aaron and Moses. Specifically, Yalkut Shim...
The Israelites certainly did as they stood poised to enter the Promised Land. “And they camped by the Jordan,” the Torah tells us (Numbers 22:1). But what exactly was this Jordan R...
The passage starts with a seemingly simple statement: "Just as the city accepts, so too its boundary accepts." Okay... but what does that even MEAN? Well, the rabbis immediately ra...
to the first word of Sifrei Bamidbar ("The Book of Numbers") and see what treasures we can unearth. That word is "Command" (צו, tzav in Hebrew). The Rabbis of old weren't satisfied...
It wasn’t just about hygiene; it was deeply connected to their relationship with the Divine. to a passage from Sifrei Bamidbar, a fascinating collection of legal interpretations on...
It wasn't just about personal cleanliness; it was about maintaining a state of holiness, a separation from anything that could defile the sacred space. And as we read in Sifrei Bam...
In the book of Bamidbar – Numbers, in English – we find a fascinating passage that deals precisely with this: the idea of sacred space, separation, and the surprising presence of t...
