The Jewish people sought to uncover and emphasize every individual’s personal strengths, and thus chose banners for each ...

Batsheva Learning Center's Beis Midrash program offers young women in Crown Heights (and beyond) with the opportunity to ...

According to Midrash Tanchuma it wasn’t enough for him to own half the world from a 50 – 50 split with his brother. He was too jealous of the half he didn’t own. So he came up with a plan ...

TAKE, FOR example, the midrash in Exodus Rabbah (24:1), which cites a verse from Psalms (106:7) in which King David describes the departure of the Jews from Egypt and adds an additional detail ...

Mouth of the Donkey reads like midrash. Duhan-Kaplan’s interpretations are well documented and rooted in Jewish tradition. She describes scripture as “loaded with so much meaning that humans will ...

(RNS) — I will never forget the day I fell in love. It happened in the library of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, where I was studying to become a rabbi. And, no, it was not ...

Midrash is text behind the biblical text. It helps bring biblical stories to life so Jews can better engage with their religion. But Midrash, in many cases, can feel like reality. Rabbis often ...

(photo credit: Courtesy Matthew L. Berkowitz) In honor of Passover 5785, it’s worth pondering a brief midrash found in the Talmud (Berachot, 9b), on a verse in Exodus, chapter 3. When Moses ...