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The story starts, as so many do, with a commandment. God tells Saul, the first king of Israel, to utterly destroy Amalek. Wipe them out. Erase their memory from under heaven. A pre...
The passage begins with a seemingly innocuous statement: "And Solomon became allied by marriage to Pharaoh king of Egypt..." (Melachim I 3:1). But this simple line opens a floodgat...
It happens. But what if that silence has bigger consequences than you realize? The Yalkut Shimoni, a compilation of rabbinic commentary on the Hebrew Bible, has a fascinating, and ...
Our ancestors certainly did. Today we're diving into a fascinating story from Sifrei Bamidbar, a legal commentary on the Book of Numbers, that grapples with just that feeling of ex...
Today, we’re diving deep into the fascinating world of challah, that golden-brown braided bread we often enjoy on Shabbat and holidays, but with a twist. We're not just talking abo...
It can be a real head-scratcher. Today, let's dive into a fascinating passage from Sifrei Bamidbar, a collection of legal interpretations of the Book of Numbers, specifically focus...
It’s not as simple as drawing lines on a map! Sifrei Bamidbar, a collection of rabbinic legal interpretations on the Book of Numbers, sheds some light on this. We learn that when t...
Jewish tradition understands that feeling. It even has laws about it. Let's delve into a fascinating corner of Jewish law dealing with ritual impurity, or tumah, particularly as it...
We often think of them as a simple recap of the journey from Egypt, but the very first verse hints at something more. It begins by listing the places where Moses spoke to the Israe...
