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    Numbers Rabbah (or Bamidbar Rabbah in Hebrew) is a religious text holy to classical Judaism. It is a midrash comprising a collection of ancient rabbinical...
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    Korah (category Book of Numbers people)
    Numbers Rabbah 22:7; compare Exodus Rabbah 51:1 Tanhuma, ed. Buber, Ḳoraḥ, Supplement, 5; Numbers Rabbah 18:2 Numbers 3:30 Exodus 6:18 Numbers Rabbah...
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  • Deuteronomy Rabbah 11, end Sifre Deuteronomy 173, and parallel passage Yerushalmi Sukkah 55a, and elsewhere Numbers Rabbah 20:7 Numbers Rabbah 20:12 Numbers Rabbah...
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    Genesis Rabbah (Hebrew: בְּרֵאשִׁית רַבָּה, romanized: Bərēšīṯ Rabbā) is a religious text from Judaism's classical period, probably written between 300...
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    Midrash Rabba (redirect from Midrash Rabbah)
    "Rabbah" (רבה‎), meaning "great," as part of their name. These midrashim are as follows: Genesis Rabbah Exodus Rabbah Leviticus Rabbah Numbers Rabbah Deuteronomy...
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    Exodus Rabbah (tenth or eleventh and twelfth century) Leviticus Rabbah (middle seventh century) Numbers Rabbah (twelfth century) Deuteronomy Rabbah (tenth...
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    Adam's robes to Abram (Numbers Rabbah 4:8). Rabbi Isaac the Babylonian said that Melchizedek was born circumcised (Genesis Rabbah 43:6). Melchizedek called...
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    Leviticus Rabbah 1:3 Genesis 46:15 Genesis Rabbah 94:8 Exodus Rabbah 1:23 Richard Elliott Friedman, Who wrote the Bible? Jewish Encyclopedia Numbers Rabbah 13:19...
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    kindness...." Numbers Rabbah 13:2 applies Is 53:12 to Israel in exile—"There can be almost no doubt that the redactor of Numbers Rabbah had before him...
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    Tekhelet corresponds to the color of the divine revelation (Midrash Numbers Rabbah xv.). Sometime near the end of the Talmudic era (500–600 CE) the industry...
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  • Rabbi Akiva in the Menachot 29b sugya and elsewhere (Hagigah 15b and Numbers Rabbah 19.6). Moreover, he suggests that the sugya, when Moses sees Rabbi Akiva...
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  • occupy the sixth rank of ten in Maimonides' Jewish angelic hierarchy. Numbers Rabbah names four angels who would later be known as archangels, surrounding...
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    Ecclesiastes Rabbah or Kohelet Rabbah (Hebrew: קהלת רבה) is an aggadic commentary on Ecclesiastes, included in the collection of the Midrash Rabbot. It...
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    chapter 61 Numbers Rabbah 7:5; compare Arama, l.c. Tanhuma, Tazria (end); compare 2 Kings 5:2 Numbers Rabbah 14:4 Gittin 57b; Deuteronomy Rabbah 2 Mekhilta...
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    Leviticus Rabbah, Vayikrah Rabbah, or Wayiqra Rabbah is a homiletic midrash to the Biblical book of Leviticus (Vayikrah in Hebrew). It is referred to by...
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    Balaam (category Book of Numbers people)
    Talmud, Bava Batra 15b Numbers Rabbah 20 ib. 7 Talmud, Berachot 7a Talmud, Zevachim 116a Talmud Berachot l.c.; Taanit 20a; Numbers Rabbah 20:14 Talmud Sanhedrin...
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    Antiquity. The second mention of Lilith, this time explicit, is present in Numbers Rabbah 16:25. The midrash develops the story of Moses's plea after God expresses...
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    Later Yalkut Shimoni Yalkut haMachiri Midrash Jonah Ein Yaakov Midrash HaGadol Numbers Rabbah Smaller midrashim...
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  • ("faces") to the Torah (Numbers Rabbah 13:15). Seventy elders were assembled by Moses on God's command in the desert (Numbers 11:16–30). Psalm 90:10 allots...
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    400–600 CE Genesis Rabbah Lamentations Rabbah Pesikta de-Rav Kahana Esther Rabbah Midrash Iyyob Leviticus Rabbah Seder Olam Zutta Tanhuma Megillat Antiochus...
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    2 Samuel 1:13 Numbers Rabbah 9:28 Genesis Rabbah 25:3 Leviticus Rabbah 9:2 1 Samuel 10:16; Megillah 13b Moed Kattan 16b; Exodus Rabbah 30:12 Yoma 22b...
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    Pesikta de-Rav Kahana Pesikta Rabbati Pirke De-Rabbi Eliezer Seder Olam Rabbah Seder Olam Zutta Sefer HaAggadah Sefer haYashar (midrash) Smaller midrashim...
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    Exodus Rabbah (Hebrew: שמות רבה, Shemot Rabbah) is the midrash to Exodus. Exodus Rabbah is almost purely aggadic in character. It contains 52 sections...
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  • the public domain. Tanna debe Eliyahu Rabbah 31; Midrash Tehillim 3:7; Exodus Rabbah 4, Makkot 11a Numbers Rabbah 4:20, Yerushalmi Sanhedrin 10 (29a) Sukkah...
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    15:1; Numbers 2:1, 4:1, 4:17 14:26, 16:20, 19:1, 20:12, 20:23. Numbers Rabbah 2:1. Numbers Rabbah 2:17. Numbers Rabbah 2:7. Numbers Rabbah 2:3. Numbers Rabbah...
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    roughly three years before the death of his brother Reuben, although Numbers Rabbah states that Simeon became the senior of the brothers after Reuben had...
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    Joshua (category Book of Numbers people)
    27:18 Numbers Rabbah 12 Yalkut Shimoni, Joshua 2; Numbers Rabbah 12:21 Proverbs 29:23 Numbers Rabbah 13 Numbers Rabbah 12 Yalkut Shimoni, Numbers 776 Nachman...
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    Leviticus Rabbah 10 פרשת אחרי מות Isaiah 1:22 Leviticus 26:19; Jeremiah 15:12; Job 40:18 Isaiah 60:17 Leviticus 2:13; Ezekiel 43:24 Leviticus 2:13; Numbers 18:19;...
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    168, end. Tosefta Yoma 2:13, Sotah 13:2. Yalkut Shimoni, Psalms, 869. Numbers Rabbah 18:23. Budge (Sir), Ernest Alfred Wallis (1922-01-01). The Queen of...
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    (Hebrew: כלה רבתי – Great Bride). An elaboration of the previous. Derekh Eretz Rabbah (Hebrew: דרך ארץ רבה) "Derekh Eretz" literally means "the way of the world...
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