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Not just for a little while, but potentially… forever. What would you do? How far would your trust in the divine stretch? That’s the kind of situation Abraham faced, according to P...
It's a story of hope, of revival, and a reminder that even in the darkest valleys, life can spring anew. Rabbi Joshua ben Ḳorchah, a sage whose words echo through time, paints a vi...
One that even Moses, the great lawgiver, wrestled with. Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer, in chapter 44, tells a story that illuminates this very struggle. Rabbi Phineas shares a fascinating...
Our ancestors in the wilderness did the same thing, and, according to Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer, it didn't go so well. The story goes that the Israelites, fresh out of Egypt, started ...
Our story begins with the verse from Ecclesiastes (3:11): "He has made everything beautiful in its time." The Yalkut Shimoni, a compilation of Midrashic interpretations, uses this ...
The ancient Israelites knew that feeling intimately. The Yalkut Shimoni, a fascinating collection of Midrashic interpretations of the Hebrew Bible, sheds light on the Exodus story ...
The tradition grapples with this question in fascinating ways, especially when you bring the sea into the equation. The Yalkut Shimoni, a compilation of rabbinic commentary on the ...
It’s a question that’s resonated throughout Jewish history, and the answer, surprisingly, is all about perspective. Our tradition teaches us that the way we count time is intimatel...
Our ancestors certainly did. Today we're diving into a fascinating story from Sifrei Bamidbar, a legal commentary on the Book of Numbers, that grapples with just that feeling of ex...
