Today's daf includes the following famous, challenging midrash:
Rav Yehudah said in the name of Rav: when Moshe ascended Sinai to receive ( Read more... )

Neat visualization #1: the scale of the universe, showing how big (and small) things are. Link from filkerdave.
Ooh, pretty: when Planet Earth looks like art. Link from browngirl.
Overheard at work: "Every time a developer cries, a tester gets his horns".
Neat visualization #2, from a coworker: 200 counteries, 200 years, 4 minutes.
I had sometimes wondered ( Read more... )

The last of the burning-bush midrash:
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More midrash at the burning bush:
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More midrash (with some commentary) about God talking to Moshe at the bush. Why this sign? How did God speak? And was Moshe's reaction good or bad?
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More about burning thornbushes:
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Rabbi Symons and I have continued to study midrash, but I fell off the ( Read more... )

Our torah-study group has been in the fourth chapter of Genesis for a few weeks, studying the rivalry between Kayin and Hevel and the first recorded manslaughter (or murder, depending on whom you ask ( Read more... )

(If you're reading the series and wonder what happened to session 12 ( Read more... )

More Akeidah midrash translation behind the cut. This time: more about the intervention of the angel, and Avraham finally speaks up.
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