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Our story begins with Jacob, completely unaware of the drama unfolding within his own family. Remember when Rachel, his beloved wife, stole her father Laban’s Teraphim – household ...
We all know the story: Jacob, preparing to face his estranged brother Esau, finds himself grappling with a mysterious figure in the dead of night. The Torah tells us "a man" wrestl...
That’s the unsettling image painted in Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer 38, a fascinating and often overlooked passage in Jewish tradition. It all begins with a cryptic verse from the prophe...
Not just any rod, but the rod. A rod created in the twilight of creation itself, before the first Shabbat. Rabbi Levi, a sage from the Talmudic period, tells us its story, a story ...
The story begins with Moses, standing before God, asking for a sign, a mofet, to prove his divine mission. "Sovereign of all worlds!" he pleads, "Give me a wonder or a sign!" And G...
Mount Sinai is one of those places. But did you know its name wasn’t always Sinai? Rabbi Elazar of Modein tells us in Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer that from the very beginning, since the...
But let’s zoom in on that very first encounter, the one that set the whole thing in motion. It begins with Moses and Aaron, standing before Pharaoh, delivering a message that must ...
But Rabbi Shema'iah, in Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer (chapter 50), asks a pretty sharp question: Was Mordecai really the only Jew in the entire city of Shushan? I mean, Esther 9:15 clear...
They faithfully rose and set, marking the days, months, and years. But according to Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer, a fascinating early collection of Biblical stories and legends, all that...
