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to a fascinating comparison between Abraham and Jacob, two of our patriarchs, and see what Bereshit Rabbah 11 has to tell us. The key? Shabbat. Yes, that's right, the Sabbath. Rabb...
Why "the man" instead of just "man"? It seems to be alluding to someone specific… but who? Well, according to a fascinating interpretation in Bereshit Rabbah, a collection of ancie...
Why does Genesis 3:16 say, "To the woman He said: I will increase your suffering and your pregnancy; in pain you shall give birth to children, and your desire shall be for your hus...
We often think of God as all-knowing, all-seeing, but the Rabbis in Bereshit Rabbah, a collection of early Jewish interpretations of Genesis, dare to imagine a divine experience of...
In the book of Bereshit, Genesis, we find two such words used to describe key figures: tamim and haya. What do they really mean? , because the Rabbis of old sure had some fascinati...
Specifically, Bereshit Rabbah 30 dives deep into the nuances of "walking with God" by comparing Noah to another biblical giant: Abraham. Rabbi Yehuda offers a beautiful analogy. Im...
Why do bad things happen to good people? It’s a question that’s haunted humanity for millennia. Our tradition grapples with this head-on, not offering easy answers, but rather invi...
The Torah gives us glimpses, but it's in the rabbinic stories, the aggadah, that we really get a sense of the spiritual climate. One story, found in Bereshit Rabbah 38, sheds light...
Take this story from Bereshit Rabbah 39, a midrash – that is, an interpretive commentary – on the Book of Genesis. Rabbi Berekhya, quoting Rabbi Neḥemya, tells us of a king traveli...
