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, Beshalach 6

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Beshalach 6

And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart (Exod. 14:4). This was said because his heart was undecided whether to pursue them or not. And I will get Me honor upon Pharaoh and upon all his h...

Midrash Tanchuma, Beshalach 7

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Beshalach 7

And I will get me honor upon Pharaoh (Exod. 14:4). This verse tells us that whenever the Holy One, blessed be He, exacts retribution from the nations, His name is exalted in the wo...

Midrash Tanchuma, Beshalach 8

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Beshalach 8

And he took six hundred chosen chariots (Exod. 14:7). Whose beasts drew the chariots? If you should say they belonged to the Egyptians, has it not already been said: And all the ca...

Midrash Tanchuma, Beshalach 10

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Beshalach 10

And lift thou up thy rod (Exod. 14:16). Ten miracles were performed in their behalf at the sea. The sea was split asunder for them, and became a kind of vault, as it is said: Thou ...

Judgment

Midrash Tanchuma, Beshalach 15

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Beshalach 15

Thy right hand, O Lord (Exod. 15:6). This verse indicates that the Lord’s right hand is stretched out to receive repentant sinners. Though You set a time for the generation of the ...

Midrash Tanchuma, Beshalach 17

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Beshalach 17

The deeps were congealed (Exod. 15:8). He fashioned them into a kind of vault. In the heart of the sea (ibid.). Where is a man’s heart located? It is located just above two thirds ...

Midrash Tanchuma, Beshalach 19

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Beshalach 19

And they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water (Exod. 15:22). Some say that the water they had taken with them, from between the rocks, was exhausted by that time. ...

Midrash Tanchuma, Beshalach 20

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Beshalach 20

Then the Lord said unto Moses: “Behold, I will cause to rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may prove them whet...

Midrash Tanchuma, Yitro 1

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Yitro 1

18:1). Scripture states elsewhere in reference to this verse: And so I saw the wicked buried, and they came into their rest; but they that had done right went away from the holy pl...