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This Midrash, or interpretive commentary on the Book of Numbers, opens with a verse about the nazir, someone who takes a vow to abstain from certain pleasures, like cutting their h...
It wasn't just about following rules, but about something much deeper: our hearts and our eyes. to a fascinating passage from Bamidbar Rabbah 10, a section of the great Midrash com...
Today, we're diving into a fascinating story from Bamidbar Rabbah 10, a section of the larger Midrash Rabbah, a collection of rabbinic homilies and interpretations of the Torah. It...
It's a fascinating passage, brimming with insights about responsibility, destiny, and the power of prayer. The passage opens with a discussion of the nazirite vow, a voluntary comm...
This passage in Bamidbar Rabbah, a collection of rabbinic teachings on the Book of Numbers, dives deep into the laws surrounding the nazir (or nazirite) – an individual who takes a...
It's astonishing, really. Take, for example, the laws of the nazir, the one who takes a vow of separation, a path of heightened holiness. The Book of Numbers lays out some very spe...
Specifically, a nazir – a Nazirite. The passage we're looking at today comes from Bamidbar Rabbah 10, which is a collection of rabbinic interpretations on the Book of Numbers. It f...
to a passage from Bamidbar Rabbah, a collection of rabbinic interpretations on the Book of Numbers. Specifically, we’re looking at chapter 10, which gets into the specifics of the ...
Today, we're diving into Bamidbar Rabbah 11, a section of a Midrash, a collection of rabbinic commentaries on the Book of Numbers, and we'll find some surprising and hopeful insigh...