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But what does it really mean? We find ourselves asking, what are we to make of the devastating phrase, "And everything which was on the dry land died?" (Genesis 7:22). Philo, the 1...
The Torah tells us (Genesis 8:10) that Noah waited seven more days and then released the dove again. But why? The Midrash of Philo tackles this head-on, asking a simple but profoun...
The Torah tells us Noah sent it out not once, but twice. The first time, it came back with an olive branch – a sign of hope! But the second time… nothing. It just... didn’t return....
Ever stumble across a verse in the Torah that just... sticks in your craw? A line that seems simple at first glance, but the more you chew on it, the more questions it raises? That...
Even Abraham, the patriarch of faith, had moments of doubt. Our question comes from the Midrash of Philo, an exploration of the Hebrew Bible through the lens of the writings of Phi...
What does it even mean? The verse appears in the context of the brit bein ha-betarim, the “covenant between the pieces.” God makes a covenant with Abraham, promising him descendant...
Our ancestor Abraham felt it too. The Torah tells us, in Genesis 15:12: "About the time of the setting of the sun a trance fell upon Abraham; and lo, a great horror of darkness cam...
The Torah, in its unflinching honesty, doesn't shy away from these tough questions. to one particularly weighty example. In Genesis 15:13, God tells Abraham – Avraham, the patriarc...
But let's dive into one fascinating perspective found in the Midrash of Philo, and see what it reveals about the soul's journey. Philo, a Jewish philosopher living in Alexandria ar...
