Parshat Yitro

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Jethro visits Moses, the revelation at Mount Sinai, and the giving of the Ten Commandments. Exodus 18:1-20:23.

Jacob and the Patriarchs of Sabbath

Apocrypha Book of Jubilees 2:32

The Book of Jubilees, also known as Lesser Genesis, is an ancient Jewish religious work of 50 chapters, considered canonical by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church as well as Ethiopian J...

PatriarchsSabbathShabbat

Sin of the First Pair and Canaan

Apocrypha Book of Jubilees 16:14

There's a whole world of fascinating Jewish texts just beyond the familiar narratives, filled with incredible details and alternative perspectives. Today, let's dip into one of tho...

CreationAdam & EvePatriarchsRepentance

Creation of the World

Apocrypha Book of Jubilees 23:38

This ancient Jewish text, considered canonical by some but not others, pulls no punches when it comes to predicting the future – or, perhaps more accurately, warning us about the c...

Hell/GehennaTempleExileJudgment

The Great Flood

Philo The Midrash of Philo 6:1

We all know the big picture: flood, animals two-by-two, dove with an olive branch. But what about the timing? Specifically, why did Noah wait a full forty days after the mountainto...

CreationNoah & Flood

Targum Jonathan on Exodus 34

Midrash Aggadah Targum Jonathan on Exodus 34

And the Lord said to Mosheh, Hew thee two tables of stone, as the former, and write upon the tables the words that were upon the former tables which thou didst break; and be ready ...

SacrificeHolidays

Targum Jonathan on Leviticus 1

Midrash Aggadah Targum Jonathan on Leviticus 1

And it was when Mosheh had completed to erect the tabernacle that Mosheh reasoned and judged in his heart, and said: To Mount Sinai, whose excellency is the excellence only of an h...

Sacrifice

Targum Jonathan on Leviticus 6

Midrash Aggadah Targum Jonathan on Leviticus 6

And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying Instruct Aharon and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering which is brought to make atonement for the thoughts (errors) of t...

Sacrifice

Targum Jonathan on Numbers 28

Midrash Aggadah Targum Jonathan on Numbers 28

And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Instruct the children of Israel, and say to them: The priests may eat of My oblation the bread of the order of My table; but that which you ...

SacrificeHolidays

Midrash Tanchuma, Vaera 17

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Vaera 17

And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased (Exod. 9:34). Such is the way of the wicked: whenever they are in trouble, they humiliate themselves, b...

Judgment