In light of this agonizing and ongoing reality, a quote from the midrash can be a challenge to embrace, as it forces us to ...

If God is willing to conduct a dialogue with a human being and change His mind, how much more so must human beings conduct a ...

This midrash-fiction piece began as a whisper inside my own sacred chaos. I live with Type 1 Diabetes, ADHD, grief, and the kind of looping inner monologue that would make most golden calves nervous.

When you do something – even something good – without being commanded, all you are reflecting is yourself. It is your personal form of avodah, self-contained, limited, and disconnected from Hashem ...

Noah also offered sacrifices to God. However, not all offerings are equal. The Midrash employs the following parable to illustrate this idea: “There was once a king who hired two chefs.

Other findings from the Beit Midrash Research Project People can get better at studying in havruta and teachers can get better at helping their students do this. When thought of as an ambitious and ...

Like all Jewish forms of textual interpretation, most illustrations in illuminated Haggadot are a form of midrash — an effort on behalf of generations of readers to wrest new meaning from ...