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It’s a question that’s sparked debate and contemplation for millennia. According to a fascinating passage in Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 191, even the angels were curious! The text tel...
Maybe your parents didn't sign you up for piano lessons, or you never got that trip to Disney World. But what about something more fundamental, something tied to your very identity...
The ancient Israelites knew that feeling intimately. The Yalkut Shimoni, a fascinating collection of Midrashic interpretations of the Hebrew Bible, sheds light on the Exodus story ...
The tradition grapples with this question in fascinating ways, especially when you bring the sea into the equation. The Yalkut Shimoni, a compilation of rabbinic commentary on the ...
As it says in the Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 788, "Do not deceive the land." Now, this might sound strange. How can we deceive the land? One interpretation offered is a straightforwar...
It describes the offerings brought by the leaders of Israel: "And the chiefs of Israel presented (their offerings)." Now, who were these chiefs? Were they just some random people a...
And it happened to King David himself, involving none other than the Ark of the Covenant. We find ourselves in Bamidbar (Numbers 7:9), where the Torah is describing the gifts given...
We're in the Book of Numbers, Bamidbar (7:18), where the heads of the tribes are bringing offerings to the Tabernacle. It says, "On the second day, Nethanel ben Tzuar, the chief of...
We read in the Torah that God spoke to Moses from the Tent of Meeting, the Ohel Moed (אוהל מועד). But we also read that God spoke to him from above the kaporet (כפורת), the ark cov...
