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Take the story of Adam and Eve after the tragic loss of Abel. We read in Genesis 4:25, "Adam was further intimate with his wife and she gave birth to a son, and she called his name...
It all begins, of course, with Adam. But did you ever imagine him… colossal? Our sages certainly did. In Bereshit Rabbah, a classic collection of rabbinic interpretations on the Bo...
Bar Kappara, a sage from the Land of Israel who lived around the 3rd Century CE, once opened up a fascinating idea based on a verse from Psalms. He looked at the verse, "May they b...
In the Torah, names often carry a powerful weight, hinting at a person's destiny or reflecting a significant moment. Take Noah, for example. Genesis 5:29 tells us, "He called his n...
In Bereshit Rabbah, a classic collection of rabbinic interpretations of the Book of Genesis, we find this idea explored through a rather unsettling lens: famine. Specifically, the ...
Take Noah, for instance. We all know the story: the ark, the flood, the animals two-by-two. But what about Noah before the flood? What kind of person was he? Well, the book of Bere...
We all know the story: the ark, the flood, the animals two by two. But have you ever stopped to wonder about the timing of it all? It's not just about the rain, but about the gener...
This week, we're diving into a passage from Bereshit Rabbah 26, a rich collection of rabbinic interpretations on the Book of Genesis, that wrestles with this very question. The ver...
It’s a powerful, devastating verse that sets the stage for the Flood. But the Rabbis of the Midrash, in Bereshit Rabbah, weren't content with a simple reading. They dug deeper, con...
