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, Emor 20

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Emor 20

(Lev. 23:40:) “And you shall take for yourselves on the first day.” After all the wisdom which is ascribed to Solomon (since according to I Kings 5:11), “He was the wisest of all p...

SolomonWisdom

Midrash Tanchuma, Emor 21

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Emor 21

(Lev. 23:40:) “And you shall take for yourselves on the first day,” and even on the Sabbath.95See Lev. 30:8; PRK 27:8. [Indeed] during the time that the Temple was standing, [the p...

Shabbat

Midrash Tanchuma, Behar 1

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Behar 1

(Lev. 25:14:) “When you sell property to your kinsman.” This text is related (to Prov. 28:22), “An evil-eyed person moves quickly after wealth, [and he does not know that loss will...

Death

Midrash Tanchuma, Behar 2

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Behar 2

(Lev. 25:25,35:) “And when your relative becomes poor and sells some of his property […]. And when your relative becomes poor, and his strength fails.” This text is related (to Pro...

Torah

Midrash Tanchuma, Behar 3

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Behar 3

(Lev. 25:25:) ”When your relative becomes poor and sells some of his property, then his redeemer shall come.” Who is his redeemer? I am He, as stated (in Jer. 50:33-34), “The Child...

Torah

Midrash Tanchuma, Bechukotai 2

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Bechukotai 2

(Lev. 26:3:) “If you walk in My statutes….” This text is related (to Hos. 9:17), “My God will reject them because they did not heed Him….” The Holy One, blessed be He, said, “I hav...

Torah

Midrash Tanchuma, Bechukotai 6

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Bechukotai 6

Another interpretation (of Lev. 27:2), “When anyone explicitly vows”: The nations say (in Micah 6:6-7), “With what shall I come before the Lord, bow myself before God on high, [….]...

Torah

Midrash Tanchuma, Bamidbar 6

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Bamidbar 6

(Numb. 1:1:) “Then the Lord spoke unto Moses.” Fortunate are you, Moses!25Numb. R. 1:6; cf. Lev. R. 1:1. Six hundred thousand were present with the priests, the Levites, and the el...

Moses

Midrash Tanchuma, Bamidbar 10

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Bamidbar 10

(Numb. 2:2:) [“The Children of Israel shall camp,] each with his standard, under the banners for their fathers' houses….” This text is related (to Ps. 20:6), “Let us shout for joy ...

Torah