Parshat Shoftim

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Laws of judges and officers, the king, the Levitical priests, true and false prophets, cities of refuge, and warfare. Deuteronomy 16:18-21:9.

Court of Solomon and Kings

Midrash Rabbah Kohelet Rabbah 4:1

King Solomon, the wisest of all men, certainly grappled with that question. And in the book of Ecclesiastes, or Kohelet, he gives us a glimpse into his own striving. The verse we'r...

Solomon

Court of Solomon of Kings

Midrash Rabbah Kohelet Rabbah 7:1

Kohelet, the book of Ecclesiastes, gives us a glimpse. In chapter 2, verse 7, it says, "I purchased myself slaves and maidservants and I had stewards. I also had great possession o...

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Kingdom of David and Nebuchadnezzar

Midrash Rabbah Kohelet Rabbah 15:3

That fear, that nagging doubt, echoes in the ancient words of Kohelet Rabbah, a rabbinic commentary on the Book of Ecclesiastes. It grapples with the seeming unfairness of life, th...

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Rabbi Meir and the King

Midrash Rabbah Kohelet Rabbah 17:1

The Book of Ecclesiastes, or Kohelet as it’s known in Hebrew, tackles this head-on. There's this passage that really hits home: "I hated all my toil that I toiled under the sun, as...

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Enosh and Creation of Simon

Midrash Rabbah Kohelet Rabbah 21:1

Specifically, Ecclesiastes 2:21 states: "For there is a man whose toil is with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with skill; yet to a man who has not toiled in it, he will leave it a...

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Proverbs of the King

Midrash Rabbah Kohelet Rabbah 4:1

The book of Ecclesiastes, or Kohelet as it's known in Hebrew, gets it. It’s a book that doesn't shy away from the complexities, the contradictions, the sheer messiness of being hum...

Solomon

Proverbs of the King and Rabbis

Midrash Rabbah Kohelet Rabbah 8:1

The Book of Ecclesiastes, or Kohelet as it's known in Hebrew, certainly thought so. And the Rabbis, plumbing its depths in Kohelet Rabbah, took that idea and ran with it. Consider ...

Solomon

David Before the King and Solomon

Midrash Rabbah Kohelet Rabbah 22:1

It’s a very human feeling, this sense of being limited to the present. The book of Ecclesiastes, or Kohelet, wrestles with this very idea. "I saw that there is nothing better than ...

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Kingdom of David and Yehuda

Midrash Rabbah Kohelet Rabbah 17:1

It all starts with a verse from Ecclesiastes (4:17): “Guard your feet when you go to the house of God, and draw near to heed. This is better than fools giving an offering, as they ...

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