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, Shmini 6

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Shmini 6

(Lev. 11:1-2:) “Then the Lord spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying […], ‘Speak unto the Children of Israel, saying, “These are the creatures that you may eat….”’” It is stated (...

Moses

Midrash Tanchuma, Shmini 12

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Shmini 12

And he said to them, "Approach and carry your brothers": And has it not already been stated, "And fire went out from in front of the Lord and consumed them?" Rather, blessed be the...

Torah

Midrash Tanchuma, Tazria 2

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Tazria 2

Another interpretation (of Lev. 12:2), “and bears a male”: This text is related (to I Sam. 2:2), “There is no holy one like the Lord, for there is none beside You.” What is the mea...

Torah

Midrash Tanchuma, Tazria 9

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Tazria 9

(Lev. 13:2), “When anyone has on the skin of his flesh.” This text is related (to Ps. 5:5), “For You are not a God who delights in wickedness. [This verse is] to teach you that the...

Judgment

Midrash Tanchuma, Tazria 11

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Tazria 11

(Lev. 13:2), “When anyone has on the skin of his flesh.” Why do the plagues come?50Cf. Lev. R. 17:3. Because of harlotry. And so you find in Jerusalem, that because they were absor...

Judgment

Midrash Tanchuma, Metzora 3

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Metzora 3

(Lev. 14:2:) “In the day of his cleansing.” [With what?]20Lev. R. 16:7. With (according to vs. 4) “two live clean birds.” How is his offering different from all [other] offerings? ...

Sacrifice

Midrash Tanchuma, Metzora 9

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Metzora 9

(Lev. 15:25:) “And when a woman has had a discharge of blood for many days.” Why a woman and not a man? Previously it applied to men and women. Thus it is stated (in Lev. 15:2), “W...

Torah

Midrash Tanchuma, Achrei Mot 1

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Achrei Mot 1

(Lev. 16:1:) “After the death of Aaron's two sons.” This text is related (to Eccl. 9:2), “Since everything [happens] to everyone, the same lot [falls] to the righteous and to the w...

Death

Midrash Tanchuma, Achrei Mot 4

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Achrei Mot 4

R. Ahawa bar Ze'era opened (with Job 37:1), “At this also my heart trembles and leaps from its place.” What is the meaning of “and leaps?”33PRK 26(27):5; Lev. R. 20:5. Jumps, as [S...

Job