Parshat Ki Teitzei

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Seventy-four commandments covering family law, honest business practices, treatment of workers, and remembering Amalek. Deuteronomy 21:10-25:19.

Moses Speaks to God

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tehillim 1:5

to Midrash Tehillim, a collection of rabbinic interpretations on the Book of Psalms, and see what it has to say about the path we walk. The very first verse of Psalms – "Who did no...

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Rabbi Yochanan and the Lawgiver

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tehillim 1:14

Midrash Tehillim, a collection of rabbinic interpretations of the Book of Psalms, opens by exploring this very idea. It begins with the verse, "For they delight in the Torah of the...

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He's Song

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tehillim 2:10

Specifically, it grapples with the verse, "Ask of me and I will give you the nations." Seems pretty straightforward. Except… isn't the whole world already promised to God? As Psalm...

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Absalom's Journey

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tehillim 3:1

That’s the question that echoes in the opening of the third section of Midrash Tehillim, a collection of rabbinic teachings that beautifully unpack the Psalms. It begins by looking...

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Angels Attend to Moses and Nahaliel

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tehillim 5:1

The ancient rabbis certainly thought so. And they found echoes of this idea even in the seemingly simple words of the Psalms. Specifically, in Midrash Tehillim, a collection of rab...

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From Nothing to Everything and Daniel

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tehillim 11:6

It’s a question humanity has grappled with for millennia. Midrash Tehillim, a collection of rabbinic interpretations of the Book of Psalms, tackles this very question head-on in it...

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Songs of David

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tehillim 12:1

What holds a nation together? Is it military might? Economic prowess? Or something more… intangible? Midrash Tehillim 12, a collection of rabbinic teachings on the Book of Psalms, ...

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Death of David

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tehillim 13:7

King David knew that feeling well. Psalm 13, a cry for help, is raw with that vulnerability: "Lord, my God, look upon me and enlighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death..." ...

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Kingdom of David and Days

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tehillim 17:3

Like the rules just... don't apply the same way? That's a question King David wrestles with in a powerful passage from Midrash Tehillim, a collection of homiletic interpretations o...

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