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It might seem harsh at first glance, but let's dig into the story behind it, as told in Bamidbar Rabbah (7) – a collection of rabbinic interpretations on the Book of Numbers. The v...
His story, recounted in Bamidbar Rabbah (Numbers Rabbah) 18, is a wild ride of ambition, rebellion, and some seriously bad consequences. So, "Korah took…" That's how the story begi...
Sometimes, the explanations seem… unexpected, even poetic. to a passage from Kohelet Rabbah, a collection of rabbinic interpretations on the Book of Ecclesiastes, where we explore ...
The verse in question, from Leviticus 14:4, describes a ritual for purifying someone who has been healed from a skin disease: “The priest shall command, and one shall take for the ...
We all know the story in broad strokes: the expulsion from Eden, the toil, the hardship. But what about the details? Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer, a fascinating early medieval Jewish tex...
The ancient rabbis certainly did. And in the Sifrei Bamidbar, a mishnah of legal commentary on the Book of Numbers, they explore this very idea, using the story of the Israelites i...
Specifically, we're going to look at Numbers 19:18, which deals with purification rituals. The verse says, "And a clean man shall take..." Now, Sifrei Bamidbar immediately pounces ...
In Jewish law, this creates a state of ritual impurity, or tumah. It's a pretty unsettling thought, isn’t it? So, how do we atone for this accidental transgression? Well, Sifrei Ba...
We often picture Moses, Moshe Rabbenu, as this towering, almost superhuman figure. The one who parted the Red Sea, who received the Torah on Mount Sinai. But the truth, as Jewish t...
