380 texts · Page 22 of 43
to one particularly powerful passage, a meditation on Psalm 27:1, "The Lord is my light and my help; whom should I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; whom should I dread?...
The Midrash Tehillim, a collection of rabbinic interpretations of the Book of Psalms, wrestles with this very idea in Psalm 42. It speaks of God "passing through the camp with an a...
That’s a question that’s wrestled with in Midrash Tehillim, a collection of rabbinic interpretations on the Book of Psalms. Our passage today comes from Midrash Tehillim 65, and it...
Our tradition has a lot to say about that, especially when it comes to prayer and redemption. to a powerful passage from Midrash Tehillim, a collection of rabbinic teachings on the...
Specifically, we're looking at a fascinating reading of Psalm 116. The verse begins, "My voice, my supplication." The Midrash imagines the entire "assembly of Israel" standing befo...
The ancient sages certainly did. And they saw this power reflected even in the way we remember the righteous and the wicked. It all starts with the verse, "Praise the Lord, for He ...
Because today, we're diving into a fascinating teaching from Midrash Tehillim, a collection of rabbinic interpretations of the Book of Psalms, that might just flip your perspective...
The answer, according to ancient wisdom, lies in the sound of the shofar, the ram's horn. Yehudah bar Nachman, quoting Reish Lakish, offers a powerful image based on Psalm 47:6, "G...
Our ancestors grappled with this too. And the way they dealt with it, according to ancient texts, is pretty darn fascinating. We're talking about intercalation, a process of adding...
