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Parashat Emor: Midrash
Midrashim are ideas or stories that explain the Torah. Here, a midrash focuses on the significance of bringing a bull as a sacrifice and its connection to the golden calf.
Parashat Emor: Midrash
Midrashim are ideas or stories that explain the Torah. Here, we focus on Shemini Atzeret- what are we pausing for on this holiday?
Parashat Nitzavim: Midrash
Let’s look closer at one important phrase in our parashah: לֹא בַשָּׁמַיִם הִוא (it’s not in heaven). What can we learn from these words?
Shavuot: Midrash
What is Torah like? How is it like water? How is it like oil?
Parashat Shoftim: Midrash
The Torah says that a judge who's having a hard time making a decision should seek a higher authority "who is at the time". What can we learn from those words?
Parashat Shemot: Midrash
What was Pharaoh's daughter's name?
Parashat Mishpatim: Midrash
Midrashim are ideas or stories that explain the Torah.Here’s a midrash that imagines what the angels had to say about Moshe going up to Mount Sinai to get the tablets from God.
Parashat Terumah: Midrash
Midrashim are ideas or stories that explain the Torah. Here’s a midrash about Moshe receiving the directions for creating the menorah and struggling to understand.
Parashat Bo: Midrash
Benei Yisrael are given their first mitzvah: deciding when each new month begins. Why is Rosh hodesh described as being "for you?"
Parashat Bo: Midrash
Midrashim are ideas or stories that explain the Torah. When the Torah describes the laws of the קָרְבַּן פֶּסַח (korban pesah, pesah offering), it emphasizes that a גֵּר (ger, stranger) must also be included.
Parashat Hayyei Sarah: Midrash
Why does the Torah tell us Yitzhak's location right before he meets Rivkah?
Parashat Toldot: Midrash
Learn a midrash about what happens when Esav finds out that Yaakov came first and got the blessing from Yitzhak.
Parashat Vayehi: Midrash
Learn a midrash about Serah, the only one who persuaded all the people to believe in Moshe!
Parashat Vayehi: Midrash
How come Yosef didn't know firsthand that his father was sick?
Parashat Hayyei Sarah: Midrash
Why does the Torah describe Avraham as zakein (old)?
Parashat Hayyei Sarah: Midrash
What does it mean that God blessed Avraham ba-kol (with everything)?
Parashat Vayera: Midrash
What does the sun rising and setting have to do with Rivka and Sarah?
Parashat Vayera: Midrash
Whom do we thank for the goodness in our lives?