Parshat Vayeshev

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Joseph's dreams and his brothers' jealousy, Joseph sold into slavery, Judah and Tamar, and Joseph in Potiphar's house and prison. Genesis 37:1-40:23.

Creation of the World and Tabernacle

Midrash Rabbah Bereshit Rabbah 3:9

The Bereshit Rabbah, a classic Midrashic collection that expands on the Book of Genesis, dives deep into the creation story. And in Bereshit Rabbah 3, Rabbi Shmuel bar Ami offers a...

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Maker of Heaven and Earth

Midrash Rabbah Bereshit Rabbah 4:3

Our ancestors did, too. And their answers, found in texts like Bereshit Rabbah, are mind-bending. Bereshit Rabbah, a foundational Midrashic text (a collection of rabbinic commentar...

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Jeremiah: Moses and the King

Midrash Rabbah Bereshit Rabbah 5:4

We often think of creation as this grand, instantaneous act. But what if I told you that even in the very beginning, there was a sense of…guidance, even sorrow? That’s what I’ve be...

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Levi: Maker of Heaven and Earth

Midrash Rabbah Bereshit Rabbah 6:7

Our Sages pondered this very idea. Rabbi Levi, in Bereshit Rabbah 6, shares a profound thought: There are three things whose sound, whose impact, travels the entire world, and yet ...

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Righteousness of Adam and Berekhya

Midrash Rabbah Bereshit Rabbah 8:4

And the rabbis of old, grappling with the very same question, offered some pretty fascinating answers. Take this story from Bereshit Rabbah, a classic collection of rabbinic interp...

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Solomon the Builder

Midrash Rabbah Bereshit Rabbah 9:2

All the beauty, all the challenges... could it have been any other way? The rabbis of old certainly pondered this. They wrestled with the very notion of creation, asking whether th...

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From Nothing to Everything and Lakish

Midrash Rabbah Bereshit Rabbah 9:3

It’s a pretty mind-boggling thought, isn’t it? Well, in Bereshit Rabbah, a classic collection of rabbinic interpretations on the Book of Genesis, the rabbis grapple with this very ...

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Solomon the Builder and Shmuel

Midrash Rabbah Bereshit Rabbah 9:7

But Jewish tradition, in its beautiful, often paradoxical way, has some fascinating answers. to Bereshit Rabbah, one of the oldest and most important commentaries on the Book of Ge...

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Celestial Servants and Shmuel

Midrash Rabbah Bereshit Rabbah 9:10

We often grapple with the existence of suffering in a world supposedly created by a benevolent God. Jewish tradition certainly doesn’t shy away from this question. In fact, there's...

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