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It's packed with hidden meanings, and even a single letter can change everything! Take the word "after," for example. In Hebrew, it can be written as aḥar or aḥarei. Seems like a s...
It all starts with God promising Abraham countless descendants: "Look now to the heavens, and count the stars, if you can count them… So will your offspring be." But it's the phras...
We find a fascinating glimpse into that struggle in Bereshit Rabbah 44, a section of the ancient midrashic collection on the Book of Genesis. It all centers around Abraham and a ra...
The Torah uses powerful imagery to describe just such a feeling in Genesis 15:11: “Birds of prey descended upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.” But what does it really m...
one such verse, rich with meaning and implication. In Genesis 15:14, God tells Abraham, "And also that nation that they will serve, I will judge, and after that they will go out wi...
That’s the feeling that explodes from the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. We find it in Genesis 18:20: "The Lord said: Because the outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great and because th...
That’s kind of the vibe we get from a fascinating passage in Bereshit Rabbah (49), a collection of rabbinic interpretations of the Book of Genesis. It centers around the verse in G...
Abraham, our patriarch, certainly did. In Genesis 18:27, during that intense negotiation with God over Sodom and Gomorrah, Abraham says, “Behold now, I have presumed to speak to my...
It's like a linguistic puzzle, where sometimes a single letter can shift the whole meaning of a word. And that brings us to a curious little detail in the Torah, one that our sages...
