5 texts in Midrash Rabbah
God, as we know, gave Adam a pretty straightforward instruction: "Of every tree of the garden you are free to eat; but as for the tree of knowledge of good and bad, you must not ea...
The creation story, as we know it, tells of God fashioning the world, setting it firmly on its foundations (Tree of Souls, Ifa 7838). Then came Adam, the first human. God brought h...
The Bible, especially the Book of Genesis, grapples with this tension in some truly epic ways. And one of the most intriguing—and troubling—is the story of the "sons of God" and th...
Turns out, the rabbinic tradition has quite a bit to say about its motivations and character. The Torah tells us, "Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made and sent out t...
(Genesis 11:1) tells us, "Everyone on earth had the same language and the same words." Imagine the possibilities! With this miraculous language, some say, anything could be accompl...
