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Jewish tradition has a fascinating way of showing us that sometimes, just sometimes, we need a little divine… addition. Let’s turn to a text called Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer, a wonder...
Not just any rod, but the rod. A rod created in the twilight of creation itself, before the first Shabbat. Rabbi Levi, a sage from the Talmudic period, tells us its story, a story ...
That's the situation Moses faced in a powerful story found in Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer (chapter 45). The story opens with a terrifying decree: God, in his anger, sends not one, but f...
Jewish tradition wrestles with these questions constantly, and one particularly fascinating perspective comes from Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer, a collection of stories and interpretatio...
But that's precisely the reading we find in Tanna DeBei Eliyahu Rabbah, a fascinating early rabbinic text. The verse in Genesis (3:24) tells us God "drove out" (ויגרש, vayegaresh) ...
It’s more than just historical happenstance. According to a beautiful passage in the Yalkut Shimoni, a compilation of rabbinic commentary on the Bible, there’s a deeper, cosmic rea...
We know the story: fleeing from his brother Esau, he rests his head on a stone and has this incredible vision. But the Yalkut Shimoni, a compilation of Midrashic teachings, offers ...
It all starts with the phrase "this good mountain and the Lebanon." This isn't just any mountain, you see. It's the mountain. Everyone, it seems, calls it that. Abraham calls it a ...
The Sifrei Devarim, an ancient rabbinic commentary on the Book of Deuteronomy, often finds meaning by looking closely at the names we find in the Torah. Take, for instance, the sto...
