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The Yalkut Shimoni, a massive compilation of rabbinic commentary on the entire Hebrew Bible, offers a fascinating glimpse. In its section on Torah portion 405, it says something qu...
Take, for example, the beginning of the book of Numbers (Bamidbar in Hebrew), where we find a meticulous accounting of the Israelites' travels in the wilderness. It seems a little…...
Today, we're going to explore a passage from the Yalkut Shimoni, a compilation of rabbinic literature that sheds light on a particular verse about cities of refuge. The passage we'...
The Torah provides a fascinating and compassionate solution: cities of refuge, places where an unintentional manslayer could flee and find sanctuary. But how did these cities work,...
The Yalkut Shimoni, a vast collection of rabbinic commentary on the Hebrew Bible, compiled sometime in the 13th century, hints at just such a thing. Specifically, the commentary on...
The passage begins with God speaking to Moses, commanding him to instruct the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone afflicted with tzara'at (often translated as leprosy, tho...
The ancient rabbis certainly did. And in the Sifrei Bamidbar, a mishnah of legal commentary on the Book of Numbers, they explore this very idea, using the story of the Israelites i...
We often think of religious laws as strict commandments, but sometimes, the texts reveal a surprising amount of individual agency. Take, for instance, this passage from Sifrei Bami...
Our story today comes from Sifrei Bamidbar, a collection of legal interpretations on the Book of Numbers. We’re looking at Bamidbar (Numbers) 7:6: "And Moses took the wagons and th...
