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The Yalkut Shimoni, a fascinating collection of rabbinic commentary on the entire Hebrew Bible, touches on this very moment in section 685 on Nach (the books of Prophets and Writin...
Jewish tradition certainly has words for those times. In fact, the Yalkut Shimoni, a vast and fascinating collection of rabbinic teachings and interpretations, points directly to s...
The story of Haman, the villain of the Purim story, is full of them. And according to the Yalkut Shimoni, a compilation of rabbinic commentary on the Bible, Haman's plot to annihil...
And it’s fascinating to see how ancient texts like Sifrei Bamidbar, a legal midrash on the Book of Numbers, attempt to define and describe where we might find that light. It all st...
But the text goes on to explain that all who hate the righteous are, in effect, haters of the Holy One, blessed be He. Think of it like this: when we strike out against goodness, a...
We often picture Moses, Moshe Rabbenu, as this towering, almost superhuman figure. The one who parted the Red Sea, who received the Torah on Mount Sinai. But the truth, as Jewish t...
Deuteronomy 1:3 states, "And it was, in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first of the month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel." Okay, so the eleventh mont...
You might be surprised. Forget the crown jewels and the royal chef. According to one fascinating interpretation in Sifrei Devarim 161, it's a scroll. Specifically, a megillah, a sc...
We often gloss over that part of the Noah story, but the Book of Jasher, an ancient Hebrew text of legend and lore, dives right in! Chapter 7 is all about the generations that foll...
