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The ancient sages felt that too, and they offered some pretty timeless advice on how to prioritize what truly matters. Our starting point is a verse from Ecclesiastes 7:18: "It is ...
Kohelet Rabbah, the rabbinic commentary on Ecclesiastes, takes on this very question, diving deep into the meaning of the verse: "Wisdom will bolster the wise more than ten rulers ...
Kohelet Rabbah, the commentary on Ecclesiastes, digs into this very question, offering some fascinating, and at times surprising, answers. The verse from Ecclesiastes, "Wisdom will...
Specifically, the verse in Chapter 7, verse 20: "For there is not a righteous man upon the earth, who does good, and does not sin." Is it saying that everyone messes up, regardless...
King Solomon, wisest of all men, apparently felt that too. Ecclesiastes 7:23 reads, "All this I attempted with wisdom; I said: I will become wise, but it is far from me." What does...
The Book of Kings tells us that Solomon "spoke three thousand proverbs" (I Kings 5:12). But wait a minute... when we actually read through the Bible, how many proverbs do we find a...
Sometimes, the explanations seem… unexpected, even poetic. to a passage from Kohelet Rabbah, a collection of rabbinic interpretations on the Book of Ecclesiastes, where we explore ...
Today, we’re diving into a story from Kohelet Rabbah, a collection of rabbinic interpretations of the Book of Ecclesiastes, where we see just such a situation unfold. The story cen...
The book of Ecclesiastes, or Kohelet in Hebrew, certainly thought so, at least in one rather pointed verse. "I find more bitter than death," it says, "the woman whose heart is snar...
