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.

Midrash Tanchuma, Shemot 22

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Shemot 22

And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass (Exod. 4:20). This is one of the ten verses our rabbis altered when they translated the Torah into Greek for King Pto...

Midrash Tanchuma, Shemot 24

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Shemot 24

And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel (Exod. 4:29). He told them: The Holy One, blessed be He, has said: I have surely remembered ...

Midrash Tanchuma, Shemot 26

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Shemot 26

Another explanation of God thundereth marvelously with his voice (Job 37:5). When did the Holy One, blessed be He, perform these miracles with His voice? He did so at the time he w...

Midrash Tanchuma, Shemot 29

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Shemot 29

And Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord (Exod. 4:29). Moses began to reveal to him everything that the Holy One, blessed be He, had told him, and that he was to go perform t...

Midrash Tanchuma, Vaera 2

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Vaera 2

Therefore, say unto the children of Israel: “I am the Lord, and I will bring you out” (Exod. 6:6). The word therefore implies that an oath was involved, as it is said: Therefore I ...

Midrash Tanchuma, Vaera 10

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Vaera 10

See, I have set thee in God’s stead to Pharaoh, and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet (Exod. 7:1). Just as the lecturer sits and lectures, and the interpreter explains his wor...

Midrash Tanchuma, Vaera 12

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Vaera 12

When Pharaoh shall speak unto you (Exod. 7:9). Scripture says elsewhere: A fool spendeth all his spirit; but a wise man stilleth it within him (Prov. 29:11). That is, the fool says...

Midrash Tanchuma, Bo 1

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Bo 1

And the Lord said unto Moses: “stretch out thy hand toward the heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt” (Exod. 10:21). Scripture ...

Midrash Tanchuma, Bo 4

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Bo 4

Our sages of blessed memory said: The Holy One, blessed be He, followed the military tactics employed by kings when inflicting the plagues upon them. When the people of a province ...