Parshat Shemot

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The Israelites' enslavement in Egypt, the birth of Moses, Moses at the burning bush, and God's call to liberate His people. Exodus 1:1-6:1.

Jordan River in David's Court

Other Texts Sifrei Devarim 357:16

We know he wasn't destined to cross the Jordan River, to set foot in that land flowing with milk and honey. But what did God show him in those final moments? The book of Sifrei Dev...

King DavidHoly Land

Eber and Noah of Jubilee

Apocrypha Book of Jubilees 8:13

It's a fascinating read, full of details you won't find anywhere else in the Torah. The Book of Jubilees, sometimes called Lesser Genesis, presents itself as a revelation given to ...

Noah & Flood

Targum Jonathan on Exodus 3

Midrash Aggadah Targum Jonathan on Exodus 3

But Mosheh was keeping the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the rabba of Midian; and he had led the flock to a pleasant place of pasturage which is behind the desert, and had com...

Targum Jonathan on Exodus 8

Midrash Aggadah Targum Jonathan on Exodus 8

And the Lord said to Mosheh, Lift up thy hand with thy rod over the rivers, over the trenches, and over the canals, and I will bring up the frogs upon the land of Mizraim. And Ahar...

Targum Jonathan on Numbers 31

Midrash Aggadah Targum Jonathan on Numbers 31

And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Take retribution for the children of Israel from the Midianites; and afterward thou shalt be gathered to thy people. And Moses spake with th...

Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy 26

Midrash Aggadah Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy 26

AND when you have entered into the land, which the Lord thy God giveth you for an inheritance, and you possess and dwell in it; you shall take of the earliest first fruits which ar...

Seder Olam Rabbah 5

Midrash Aggadah Seder Olam Rabbah 5

All seven days was the Holy One, praised be He, speaking with Moses at the thornbush,1R. Eliyahu from Vilna explains that the statement "all seven days" is based on a simple comput...

Midrash Tanchuma, Noach 14

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Noach 14

And he planted a vineyard (Gen. 9:20). Noah was one of four men who introduced four things. Noah introduced planting, as it is written: And he planted a vineyard; cursing when he s...

Midrash Tanchuma, Chayei Sara 6

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Chayei Sara 6

And Abraham took another wife (Gen. 25:1). Scripture states elsewhere: Though thy beginning was small, yet thy end shall greatly increase (Job 8:7). This verse alludes to Moses. R....