Death

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Explore 893 Jewish texts related to the theme of Death, drawn from Midrash, Kabbalah, Apocrypha, and classical Jewish literature.

Midrash Tanchuma, Bechukotai 1

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(Lev. 26:3:) “If [you walk] in My statutes (huqqim).” This text is related (to Job 14:5), “If his days are determined, the number of his months is with You; You have set limits (hu...

Midrash Tanchuma, Bamidbar 12

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(Numb. 2:2:) “Each with his standard, under the banners for their fathers' house.” [This text is related] (to Job 36:3), “I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and justify my maker....

Midrash Tanchuma, Bamidbar 23

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(Numb. 4:18:) “Do not cut off.” Let our master instruct us: In the case of one who commits a transgression punishable with excision according to the Torah, how do they receive pard...

Midrash Tanchuma, Nasso 6

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(Numb. 5:13:) “In that a man has slept with her carnally.” [“A man” is to] exclude a minor, and one who is not a man.38On the exception, see Sifre, Numb. 5:13 (7). Cf. Sot. 4:4; TS...

Midrash Tanchuma, Korach 6

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(Numb. 16:7-8:) “You Levites have gone too far! So Moses said unto Korah, ‘Please listen, you Children of Levi.” Do you have someone speaking with Joseph, who tells Simon to listen...

Midrash Tanchuma, Chukat 1

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(Numb. 19:2:) Blessed be the name of the supreme King of kings, the Holy One, blessed be He, who created the world in wisdom and understanding; for His wonders have no limit and Hi...

Midrash Tanchuma, Chukat 3

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(Numb. 19:2:) “This is the statute of the Torah.” This text is related (to Job 14:4), “Who can produce something clean out of something unclean; is it not One?”32English translatio...

Midrash Tanchuma, Chukat 5

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R. Hanan bar Pazzi opened [his discourse] with the verse in [the context of] the parashah of the [red] heifer, which contains seven [references to] seven things:57Numb. R. 19:2, co...

Midrash Tanchuma, Chukat 6

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R. Isaac began [his discourse] (with Eccl. 7:23), “All this I tested with wisdom; I thought I could fathom it, but it eludes me.” It is written (in I Kings 5:9), “So God gave Solom...