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It’s in Genesis 2:2: "God completed [vayechal] on the seventh day." But wait a minute! Didn't God finish creating everything on the sixth day? The sages of the Midrash grappled wit...
The verse in question? Genesis 2:3: "God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on it He rested from all His labor that God created to make." But what does it mean that...
And in Bereshit Rabbah, one of our most beloved collections of Midrash – stories that expand upon the Hebrew Bible – we find a fascinating perspective. Rabbi Yehoshua ben Korḥa off...
The ancient rabbis grappled with this question, diving deep into the creation story. And as we find in Bereshit Rabbah, the classic midrashic commentary on Genesis, they came to so...
The ancients certainly did. Take clouds, for example. We see them drift across the sky, maybe bringing rain, maybe just shading the sun. But did you know that the rabbis saw in clo...
Our tradition grapples with this very duality, especially when it comes to understanding the creation of humanity. In Bereshit Rabbah, a collection of rabbinic interpretations of t...
Why "the man" instead of just "man"? It seems to be alluding to someone specific… but who? Well, according to a fascinating interpretation in Bereshit Rabbah, a collection of ancie...
The Book of Genesis touches on this very question, and the Rabbis of the Midrash, never ones to shy away from a good debate, certainly had opinions. Our story comes from Bereshit R...
The ancient rabbis did! And they weren't shy about asking some pretty direct questions. Let's take a peek into a fascinating passage from Bereshit Rabbah, a collection of rabbinic ...
