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Pesikta de-Rab Kahana: R. Kahana’s Compilation of Discourses for Sabbaths and Festal Days is unavailable, but you can change that!

Long known only to scholars and specialists, Pesikta de-Rab Kahana is a masterpiece of midrashic literature. A collection of discourses for special Sabbaths and festival days compiled and organized during the fifth century, it was well known and studied from the end of that century until it disappeared sometime in the sixteenth century. From manuscripts discovered in 1868 and still others 100...

brother’s wife; the second is concerned with mixtures of “diverse kinds”;91 the third is concerned with the scapegoat; and the fourth is concerned with the Red Heifer. The first statute absolutely prohibits marriage between a man and a woman who was formerly his brother’s wife: Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife (Lev. 18:16). Yet, as the Impulse to evil points out, Scripture says elsewhere: Her husband’s brother shall go in unto her, etc. (Deut. 25:5)—that is, as long as
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