Parshat Emor

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Laws for the priests, the festivals and holy days of the Jewish calendar, and the incident of the blasphemer. Leviticus 21:1-24:23.

Simon Maccabeus Remembered

Apocrypha The Book of Maccabees I 14:23

Sometimes, history throws us these little gems that remind us we’re all more connected than we realize. And that's exactly what we find in the Book of Maccabees. The Book of Maccab...

Prophecy

Cosmic Origins and Noah

Philo The Midrash of Philo 10:1

The Torah tells us (Genesis 8:10) that Noah waited seven more days and then released the dove again. But why? The Midrash of Philo tackles this head-on, asking a simple but profoun...

CreationHolidays

Targum Jonathan on Leviticus 2

Midrash Aggadah Targum Jonathan on Leviticus 2

But when a man will offer the oblation of mincha before the Lord, his oblation shall be of flour, and he shall pour oil upon it, and put incense thereon, and bring it to the priest...

Torah

Targum Jonathan on Leviticus 4

Midrash Aggadah Targum Jonathan on Leviticus 4

And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with the sons of Israel, saying: When a man hath sinned inadvertently against any of the commandments of the Lord (in doing) what ough...

Sacrifice

Targum Jonathan on Leviticus 16

Midrash Aggadah Targum Jonathan on Leviticus 16

And the Lord spake with Mosheh, after that the two sons of Aharon the high priest had died (or, the priests the two elder sons of Aharon had died) at the time of their offering ext...

Sacrifice

Targum Jonathan on Leviticus 23

Midrash Aggadah Targum Jonathan on Leviticus 23

And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with the sons of Israel, and say to them, The orders of the time of the Festivals of the Lord, which you shall proclaim as holy convoc...

SacrificeHolidays

Targum Jonathan on Numbers 28

Midrash Aggadah Targum Jonathan on Numbers 28

And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Instruct the children of Israel, and say to them: The priests may eat of My oblation the bread of the order of My table; but that which you ...

SacrificeHolidays

Targum Jonathan on Numbers 29

Midrash Aggadah Targum Jonathan on Numbers 29

And in the seventh month, the month of Tishri, on the first of the month you shall have a holy convocation, you may not do any servile work; it shall be to you a day for the soundi...

SacrificeHolidays

Midrash Tanchuma, Bereshit 4

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Bereshit 4

In the beginning God created (Gen. 1:1). May it please our master16Many yelammedenu (“may our master teach us”) passages are included in Midrash Tanhuma, and for this reason our te...

Creation