Parshat Chukat

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The red heifer purification ritual, the deaths of Miriam and Aaron, Moses strikes the rock, and the bronze serpent. Numbers 19:1-22:1.

Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy 31

Midrash Aggadah Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy 31

AND Mosheh went into the tabernacle of the house of instruction, and spake these words unto all Israel, and said to them: I am the son of a hundred and twenty years this day. I am ...

DeathJudgment

Midrash Tanchuma, Lech Lecha 8

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Lech Lecha 8

And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel (Gen. 14:1). May it please our master to teach us whether a slave obtains his freedom if his owner assigns all his property to him as a ...

DeathJudgment

Midrash Tanchuma, Terumah 7

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Terumah 7

This is the offering which ye shall take of them: gold, etc. (Exod. 25:3). The gold corresponds to the kingdom of Babylon, as it is written concerning her: Thou art the head of gol...

Dreams

Midrash Tanchuma, Devarim 3

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Devarim 3

(Deut. 2:2-4:) “Then the Lord spoke unto me, saying, ‘You have had enough of going about this mountain; turn north. Now charge the people, saying, “You are passing through the terr...

Judgment

God's Omnipresence

Tree of Souls

And the answer, again and again, comes back to this: God is everywhere. It's right there in the scriptures. As it says, "His presence fills all the earth" (Isaiah 6:3). We're not t...

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The Face Of God

Tree of Souls

It’s a question that’s haunted mystics and theologians for millennia. And the answer, as we find in Jewish tradition, is both breathtakingly beautiful and terrifyingly destructive....

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God's Image

Tree of Souls

It’s a question that’s haunted mystics and theologians for centuries. And while Jewish tradition generally holds that no one can see God and live, there are whispers and echoes in ...

CreationAngelsMessiahTorah

The Face Of The Shekhinah

Tree of Souls

But what if I told you that, according to Jewish tradition, there is a way, a glimpse, perhaps, of the Divine Presence – the Shekhinah? The Shekhinah, a Hebrew word often translate...

CreationAngelsHeavenTorah

What Does The Earth Stand On?

Tree of Souls

I stumbled across a wild little story, and I just had to share it. It comes from Tree of Souls, Howard Schwartz's collection of Jewish folktales. It's a quick glimpse into a world ...

Moses