Torah

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Explore 3,627 Jewish texts related to the theme of Torah, drawn from Midrash, Kabbalah, Apocrypha, and classical Jewish literature.

David and the Angels and Blessings

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Or maybe, on a less pleasant day, like you're being... pursued? Jewish tradition has a fascinating way of explaining these feelings. It’s not just paranoia, friends. According to M...

Moses Before the King and Messiah

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The Midrash Tehillim, a collection of homiletic interpretations of the Book of Psalms, offers a fascinating perspective on these qualities, especially in relation to God, and how t...

Rabbi Chaiyah Studies Torah

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Job certainly felt that way. “Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea,” he laments (Job 11:9). But what if that vastness isn't a problem, but an invitation? ...

Isaac and the Origins of the World

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The mystics felt that too. And they left us clues, breadcrumbs in our sacred texts, to guide us on our own search. Let's look at one of these now, from Midrash Tehillim (a collecti...

The Flood and the First Humans

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It's almost incomprehensible, isn’t it? But the ancient rabbis wrestled with this very concept, particularly when interpreting Psalm 105:8: "Remember forever His covenant, the word...

Manna from Heaven and Elazar

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We celebrate the big, splashy ones – the parting of the Red Sea, the manna from heaven. But what about the quiet, everyday miracles that keep us going? The Midrash Tehillim, a coll...

Moses at the Dawn of Creation

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That feeling, that sense of the utterly unknowable, it’s a thread that runs deep through Jewish thought. The Midrash Tehillim, a collection of interpretations on the Book of Psalms...

Moses and Noah of Elazar

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According to Midrash Tehillim, a collection of rabbinic teachings on the Book of Psalms, there are five key elements that can bring about Israel's – and perhaps our own – salvation...

Abraham and Creation

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Jewish tradition certainly does. There's a fascinating idea tucked away in Midrash Tehillim, the collection of interpretations on the Book of Psalms, specifically Psalm 107, that r...