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Take, for instance, the ritual of the sotah, the suspected adulteress, described in the Book of Numbers (Bamidbar). It’s… complicated. The priest writes curses on a scroll and then...
There’s a fascinating teaching attributed to Rabbi Meir in Bamidbar Rabbah 9 that gets right to the heart of it. He asks, how do we know that the way we treat others is the very sa...
Take, for example, the laws of the sotah, the suspected adulteress, described in Numbers chapter 5. It’s a fascinating, and frankly, rather strange ritual. But let’s dive into one ...
That's what we're diving into today, a fascinating and frankly, a little unsettling passage from Bamidbar Rabbah 9, a midrashic commentary on the Book of Numbers. Our focus is on t...
It's a heavy place to be, and ancient Jewish law, specifically in the Book of Numbers, addresses this very situation with the ritual of the sotah, the suspected adulteress. But wha...
The passage starts with the seemingly straightforward case of a suspected adulteress in Numbers 5:12: "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: If the wife of any man will...
But that's precisely what we find explored in Bamidbar Rabbah 9, a section of the great Midrashic collection that delves into the book of Numbers. The passage starts with a verse a...
This Midrash, or interpretive commentary on the Book of Numbers, opens with a verse about the nazir, someone who takes a vow to abstain from certain pleasures, like cutting their h...
It wasn't just about following rules, but about something much deeper: our hearts and our eyes. to a fascinating passage from Bamidbar Rabbah 10, a section of the great Midrash com...
