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The ancient texts are full of these brushes with oblivion, and the forces, both divine and human, that intervene. to a fascinating passage from Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer, a collection...
It’s a story filled with divine drama, a bit of celestial squabbling, and Moses, our ever-persistent leader, standing his ground. , shall we? The scene: Moses is up in the heavenly...
We often think of the divine as existing outside of time, but Jewish tradition sometimes paints a different picture – one where even divine plans have a schedule, albeit a flexible...
Rabbi Abbahu, a sage from the Talmudic period, tackles this very question in Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer, a fascinating text filled with stories and interpretations that shed light on b...
Specifically, we're diving into chapter 49, which touches on kings, wealth, and the mysteries of biblical timelines. Rabbi Jonathan kicks things off by talking about Artaxerxes, th...
According to Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer, a fascinating text compiling stories and interpretations of the Torah, there was a time when sickness was a one-way street. From the moment cre...
The story comes from Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer, a fascinating and often imaginative collection of midrashic stories. The scene opens with messengers arriving at Hezekiah's court. Heze...
Jewish tradition has an answer, a fascinating and somewhat unsettling one, and it involves the very corners of the earth. Imagine the world as a sort of cosmic compass. According t...
The prophet Yirmiyahu (Jeremiah) pulls no punches. He declares, in Yirmiyahu 32:31, that Jerusalem has aroused God's anger and wrath "since the day they built it until this day, to...
