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The story in Genesis, as we all know, tells of a serpent who tempts the woman, leading to the eating of the forbidden fruit and the expulsion from paradise. But the ancient sages w...
We read it, we move on. But what if there's a whole universe of meaning packed into those few simple words? That's where midrash comes in. Midrash, from the Hebrew root darash, mea...
Philo, the 1st-century Jewish philosopher from Alexandria, grappled with this very question in his own way. In what we call "The Midrash of Philo," he argues that Adam must have be...
Turns out, there's more to it than just a quick wardrobe fix. Our sages saw layers of meaning woven into that very first act of covering up. In The Midrash of Philo, we find a fasc...
We all know the story: the serpent, the forbidden fruit, the expulsion. But what about that strange line in Genesis 3:8, "They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden...
We often focus on the sin, the temptation, the immediate consequences. But what about their reaction? How did they feel, and how did they act immediately after? There's a curious d...
To blend into the pre-Creation wilderness and hope nobody noticed. But no. They hid "in the middle of the trees of the Paradise" (Genesis 3:9). In the very place they committed the...
But did you ever notice something strange about how they pointed those fingers? The man, Adam, he's quick to say, "The woman gave me of the tree, and I did eat." He throws Eve righ...
Philo, a Jewish philosopher who lived in Egypt during the Roman era, tried to harmonize Greek philosophy with Jewish scripture. The text we're looking at here – let's call it Midra...
