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A moment of pure creation, bringing something from absolutely nothing. What was that feeling like? What was God's immediate reaction? Well, our tradition grapples with this very qu...
The scene: Rabbi Akiva, a towering figure of Jewish wisdom, is being interrogated by the wicked governor, Tinneus Rufus. Rufus, dripping with imperial arrogance, poses a deceptivel...
The Torah tells us, "The Lord God formed the man of dirt from the ground and He breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul" (Genesis 2:7). But what...
The Torah tells us, “[The Lord God formed the man] of dirt [afar]” (Genesis 2:7). But Bereshit Rabbah, that treasure trove of rabbinic interpretations on the Book of Genesis, tease...
We read in Genesis 4:8, "Cain said to Abel his brother. It was when they were in the field. Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him." But… what was that conversation r...
We often think of God as all-knowing, all-seeing, but the Rabbis in Bereshit Rabbah, a collection of early Jewish interpretations of Genesis, dare to imagine a divine experience of...
It’s a question that's been wrestled with for centuries, and it pops up in the most unexpected places in Jewish tradition. : Do we receive blessings because of our ancestors' good ...
It’s a question that’s haunted humanity for millennia. Is there any rhyme or reason to it all? Our sages grappled with this, too, and in Bereshit Rabbah, a collection of rabbinic i...
Today, we're diving into a fascinating passage from Bereshit Rabbah 36, a midrashic commentary on the Book of Genesis, which grapples with this very dilemma, using the story of Noa...
