Adam & Eve

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Explore 2,012 Jewish texts related to the theme of Adam & Eve, drawn from Midrash, Kabbalah, Apocrypha, and classical Jewish literature.

Torah Law in Detail and the Firstborn

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So, let's dive in. The text starts with a seemingly simple question: when the Torah speaks of "two wives," does that only mean two? What if there are more? The answer, surprisingly...

Seven Heavens and the Firstborn

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Here, we're grappling with a seemingly specific scenario: a man with two wives, one loved and one "hated" – though "less favored" might be a kinder, more accurate translation. The ...

Adam Names the Animals

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Like, "You shall not leave his body overnight on the eitz" – that's from the Book of Deuteronomy, and it’s something the rabbis grappled with intensely. What does it really mean? T...

Knowledge and Innocence

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The Torah, in the book of Devarim (Deuteronomy), actually has something to say about this. It might surprise you. We find in Sifrei Devarim, a collection of early legal commentarie...

Sweetness of Torah

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The Torah, in its beautiful and often surprising way, actually addresses this very question. to a fascinating little corner of Jewish law, found in Sifrei Devarim, a collection of ...

Adam Names the Animals

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Take, for example, a seemingly straightforward verse about vineyards. Specifically, we’re looking at Sifrei Devarim 230, part of the legal commentary on the Book of Deuteronomy. At...

Sackcloth and Ashes

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They knew that not everything that grows together, goes together. We’re diving today into a fascinating corner of Jewish law: the prohibition of kilayim – forbidden mixtures, speci...

Adam and Eve in Eden

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We’re going to dive into one tiny, but fascinating corner of those rules today, all thanks to a passage in the Sifrei Devarim, a collection of legal interpretations on the Book of ...

First Humans

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We're going to dive into one of those today, a passage from Sifrei Devarim, a collection of legal commentaries on the Book of Deuteronomy. It deals with kilayim (כִּלְאַיִם), a Heb...