Moses

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Explore 3,889 Jewish texts related to the theme of Moses, drawn from Midrash, Kabbalah, Apocrypha, and classical Jewish literature.

Midrash Tanchuma, Shemot 18

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Aggadah

And Moses went and returned to Jethro, his father-in-law (Exod. 4:18). Scripture states elsewhere: But he is at one with Himself, and who can turn Him? And what His soul desireth, ...

Midrash Tanchuma, Shemot 19

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Aggadah

And he said: “Moses, Moses.” and he said: “Here am I” (Exod. 3:4). What is the meaning of Here am I? R. Joshua the son of Karha held: Here am I implies: “I am ready for priesthood ...

Midrash Tanchuma, Shemot 21

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Aggadah

And Jethro said to Moses: “Go for peace” (Exod. 3:18). You find that everyone about whom it is written Go for peace departs and returns in peace, and that everyone concerning whom ...

Midrash Tanchuma, Shemot 22

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Aggadah

And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass (Exod. 4:20). This is one of the ten verses our rabbis altered when they translated the Torah into Greek for King Pto...

Midrash Tanchuma, Shemot 23

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Aggadah

And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass (Exod. 4:20). The singular form ass is employed here, as when a man says: “Lead out the animal” (though he may have m...

Midrash Tanchuma, Shemot 24

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Aggadah

And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel (Exod. 4:29). He told them: The Holy One, blessed be He, has said: I have surely remembered ...

Midrash Tanchuma, Shemot 25

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Aggadah

And the Lord said to Aaron: “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses” (Exod. 4:27). Scripture states elsewhere in allusion to this verse: God thundereth marvelously with His voice; gr...

Midrash Tanchuma, Shemot 26

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Aggadah

Another explanation of God thundereth marvelously with his voice (Job 37:5). When did the Holy One, blessed be He, perform these miracles with His voice? He did so at the time he w...

Midrash Tanchuma, Shemot 27

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Aggadah

Another comment upon the verse And the Lord said to Aaron: “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses” (Exod. 4:27). Scripture says elsewhere in reference to this verse: O that thou wer...