Holidays

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Explore 380 Jewish texts related to the theme of Holidays, drawn from Midrash, Kabbalah, Apocrypha, and classical Jewish literature.

Pesikta Rabbati 10

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Aggadah

For it will carry the head of the children of Israel to their commandments (Exodus 30:12). Our Rabbis will teach us how many times a year we should raise the tabernacle. Our Rabbis...

Pesikta Rabbati 38

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Aggadah

Teach us, oh teacher – if one has an argument with their friend, how shall they attain atonement on Yom Kippur? This is what our Rabbis taught: transgressions between a person and ...

Seder Olam Rabbah 3

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Aggadah

The judgment of the wicked in Gehinnom lasts twelve months, as it says “And it shall be from new moon to new moon…” (Yeshayahu 66:23) R’ Yochanan ben Nuri says: from Pesach until A...

Seder Olam Rabbah 4

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Aggadah

The Flood was all of twelve months,1R. Eliyahu from Vilna explains that according to Seder Olam a year about which no details are given is a simple, regular year of 354 days follow...

Seder Olam Rabbah 5

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Aggadah

All seven days was the Holy One, praised be He, speaking with Moses at the thornbush,1R. Eliyahu from Vilna explains that the statement "all seven days" is based on a simple comput...

Seder Olam Rabbah 7

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Aggadah

"And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation. And thou shalt put therein the ark of ...

Seder Olam Rabbah 8

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Aggadah

"And the Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year..." (Numbers 1:1).1Guggen...

Seder Olam Rabbah 10

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Aggadah

Chapter 10 “And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that th...

Midrash Tanchuma, Bereshit 3

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Aggadah

A response to an inquiry from the Academy.13Probably a reference to the Academy at Pumbeditha. R. Ahai, who wrote this in his She’iltot, expected to be appointed head of the Academ...