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What happened next? Well, Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer, a fascinating and often imaginative work of aggadah (Jewish storytelling and folklore), gives us a glimpse. Rabbi Eliezer tells us...
The Jewish tradition has never shied away from asking the big questions, and when it comes to the end of days, well, let's just say things get pretty interesting. One fascinating g...
It sounds gross, I know, but stay with me. There’s a fascinating passage in Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer (chapter 54) that throws light on the number seven and its significance in Jewish...
But that's precisely the reading we find in Tanna DeBei Eliyahu Rabbah, a fascinating early rabbinic text. The verse in Genesis (3:24) tells us God "drove out" (ויגרש, vayegaresh) ...
Even something as seemingly straightforward as who inherits what can have fascinating, and sometimes surprising, origins in Jewish thought. to one such discussion from the Yalkut S...
The Yalkut Shimoni, a compilation of rabbinic teachings on the Bible, brings together a fascinating idea in its section on Torah, specifically paragraph 251. It quotes R’ Yehoshua ...
Talk about pressure! This fascinating scenario comes to us from the Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 745, a compilation of rabbinic teachings and interpretations of the Hebrew Bible. It pai...
Today, we're diving into a fascinating passage from the Yalkut Shimoni, a collection of rabbinic teachings on the Torah, specifically section 787. It's a real grab bag of topics, f...
The verse we're looking at comes from the Book of Numbers (Numbers 35:11), where God commands the Israelites to designate cities of refuge: "And you shall designate for yourselves ...
