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Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer, for those unfamiliar, is a fascinating early medieval text, a midrash, that weaves together biblical narrative, legend, and ethical teachings. It's a treasu...
Moses certainly did. In the Book of Numbers – Bamidbar in Hebrew – we find him at a breaking point. The Israelites are complaining, constantly. He’s exhausted. He cries out to God,...
The very first verse throws us a curveball: "These are the words which Moses spoke..." (Deuteronomy 1:1). Seems simple enough. But wait a minute. Didn't Moses write the entire Tora...
It turns out, quite a bit. The Sifrei Devarim, a collection of early rabbinic legal interpretations on the Book of Deuteronomy, gives us a peek into the anxieties of Moses himself....
We often associate it with age, with experience, with the learned. But what if I told you that wisdom, true Torah wisdom, can flow from the most unexpected sources? Sifrei Devarim,...
Did Moses, standing there on Mount Sinai, suddenly become a zoologist specializing in every creature under the sun? It's a question that's bothered scholars for centuries, and it p...
We're looking at laws concerning who can and cannot enter the congregation of Israel. It's a topic that might seem distant, but it raises profound questions about forgiveness, coll...
Because "you were a stranger in his land." It sounds simple enough, but Rabbi Elazar ben Azaryah digs deeper. The Egyptians, let's be real, weren’t exactly acting out of pure altru...
Our tradition is full of fascinating interpretations of seemingly simple phrases. Take, for instance, the verse in Deuteronomy (32:2), "Let my teaching drop as the rain." The Sifre...
