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It’s a question that’s occupied thinkers for millennia, and Midrash Tehillim – a collection of rabbinic interpretations on the Book of Psalms – offers some fascinating insights. To...
It's not like God shows mercy to Israel for a year or two and then calls it quits! The Midrash suggests something much deeper is at play here. Think about the Torah, for instance. ...
It all boils down to this: God chastises those He loves. Now, that might sound harsh at first. But stick with me. The idea isn't about random punishment; it's about refinement. Thi...
The story of Simeon and Levi, found in Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer 38, explores just that kind of fiery zeal. It all starts with the violation of their sister, Dinah, by Shechem. The te...
The Torah itself doesn't dwell on it. But the ancient rabbis, they loved to fill in the gaps, to imagine the "what ifs" and the "how comes" of our sacred stories. And in Pirkei DeR...
Our tradition wrestles with this too, offering some pretty powerful imagery to explain it. Consider this from Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer, a fascinating early medieval text filled with ...
Take, for instance, the description of the offerings brought by the tribal leaders in the Book of Numbers – Bamidbar – specifically in chapter 7. We’re told, in painstaking detail,...
We often think of the big communal sacrifices, the ones everyone brings together. But what about all the other offerings? The smaller ones, the personal vows, the little gifts we w...
We’re diving into a fascinating little snippet from Sifrei Devarim – a collection of early rabbinic legal interpretations on the Book of Deuteronomy. Specifically, we're looking at...
