Parshat Lech Lecha

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God calls Abraham to leave his homeland for Canaan. Covers Abraham and Sarah in Egypt, the separation from Lot, the war of the kings, and the covenant between the pieces. Genesis 12:1-17:27.

Guarding the Torah and Dead

Midrash Aggadah Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer 51:11

Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer, a fascinating collection of Jewish stories and interpretations, gives us a glimpse of just such a miraculous future. It speaks of a time when even the most ...

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Birth of Sarah and Miracles

Midrash Aggadah Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer 52:2

Today, let's talk about a detail tucked away in Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer, a fascinating early medieval text filled with stories and interpretations expanding on the Torah. Specifical...

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Nimrod Among the Fathers

Midrash Aggadah Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer 52:3

Our tradition wrestles with this too, offering some pretty powerful imagery to explain it. Consider this from Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer, a fascinating early medieval text filled with ...

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Jacob at the Dawn of Creation

Midrash Aggadah Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer 52:6

It's more than just good manners. It's a whisper echoing from a very, very old story. A story about Jacob, and a world without sickness as we know it. According to Pirkei DeRabbi E...

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Written and Oral Law of Cushite

Midrash Aggadah Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer 53:6

Who are they?" Well, the Cushites were an ancient people from the region of Cush, generally understood to be in modern-day Sudan and Ethiopia. They were often depicted as having da...

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Kingdom of Nebuchadnezzar and Jehoiachin

Midrash Aggadah Seder Olam Zutta 7:1

This chronicle gives us a timeline, a framework for understanding a critical period: the Babylonian exile and the events leading to the Second Temple era. The Seder Olam Zutta tell...

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Kingdom of Agripa

Midrash Aggadah Seder Olam Zutta 9:2

We're going to delve into a section of the Seder Olam Zutta, a lesser-known chronicle that attempts to piece together the timeline of Jewish leadership and events after the destruc...

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Day of Atonement and Sabbath

Midrash Aggadah Tanna DeBei Eliyahu Rabbah 2:1

Jewish tradition offers some pretty fascinating, and sometimes mind-bending, perspectives on this. to one found in Tanna DeBei Eliyahu Rabbah, a text filled with ethical and theolo...

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City of David and Honor

Midrash Aggadah Tanna DeBei Eliyahu Rabbah 26:1

Sometimes, that feeling is more than just a saying. According to a fascinating passage in Tanna DeBei Eliyahu Rabbah 26, the people of Israel are actually like a ship. But what kin...

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