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Searching for Meaning in Midrash: Lessons for Everyday Living is unavailable, but you can change that!

A comprehensive, clear and accessible guide to the study of Midrash. Rabbis Katz and Schwartz explore the fascinating body of Jewish literature called Midrash—creative interpretations of the Bible that are designed to reveal hidden or deeper meaning in Scripture. Each of the over fifty Midrash selections, in English, featured in this book sit next to its corresponding biblical text (Hebrew and...

You have ruined things! Take a thread and sew it up! קַלְקַלְתְּ עו̇בָדָךְ סַב חוּט וְחַיִּט BIBLE TEXT Genesis 3:6–7 When the woman saw that the tree was good for eating and a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable as a source of wisdom, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave some to her husband, and be ate. Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they perceived that they were naked; and they sewed together fig leaves and made themselves loincloths. MIDRASH TEXT Genesis
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