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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...

There is a need for wine and a need for vinegar. צֹרֶךְ לַיַּיִן וְצֹרֶךְ לַחֹמֶץ BIBLE TEXT Genesis 6:1–2 When men began to increase on earth and daughters were born to them, the divine beings saw how beautiful the daughters of men were and took wives from among those that pleased them. MIDRASH TEXT Genesis Rabbah 26, 4 When men began. Rabbi Simon said, “In three places it uses this language [הֵחֵל/hey-ḥale, “began”] to indicate rebellion, ‘It was then that men began to invoke the Lord by name’ (Genesis
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