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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...

2. The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his desire (Prov. 13:25). Such was Eliezer the servant of Abraham who said to our mother Rebekah: “Give me to drink, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher” (Gen. 24:17)—one drink satisfied him. But the belly of the wicked shall want (Prov. 13:25). Such was the wicked Esau who said to our father Jacob: “Stuff me, I pray thee, with this red, red pottage” (Gen. 25:30). R. Isaac bar R. Zeʿera explained: This wicked man opened his mouth wide as though
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