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We all do it, usually for about a third of our lives. But what's going on when we drift off? Our sages pondered this deeply. In Bereshit Rabbah, a collection of rabbinic commentari...
There's a fascinating passage in Bereshit Rabbah, a collection of rabbinic interpretations on the Book of Genesis, that dives right into this feeling. It starts with the verse, "In...
We all know the story: the serpent, the forbidden fruit, and then… exile. But what did that exile really mean? The Book of Genesis tells us, "The Lord God sent him out of the Garde...
Take the story of Adam and Eve after the tragic loss of Abel. We read in Genesis 4:25, "Adam was further intimate with his wife and she gave birth to a son, and she called his name...
Bar Kappara, a sage from the Land of Israel who lived around the 3rd Century CE, once opened up a fascinating idea based on a verse from Psalms. He looked at the verse, "May they b...
In fact, it delves into the idea of divine restraint, of God actively preventing the world from being destroyed by, well, wind. We find this idea explored in Bereshit Rabbah 24, a ...
Rabbi Yoḥanan, a prominent Jewish sage, offers a fascinating, and perhaps surprising, perspective. He says that the sentence, the punishment, of the generation of the Flood lasted ...
The ancient rabbis certainly knew it. They saw it baked right into the words of the Torah itself. Take, for instance, the opening of Parashat Noah, the portion of Genesis that tell...
And in a fascinating passage from Bereshit Rabbah, the ancient rabbinic commentary on Genesis, we find the figure of Noah held up as a source of just that: double relief. But it st...
