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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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    Genesis Rabbah (Hebrew: בְּרֵאשִׁית רַבָּה‎, B'reshith Rabba) is a religious text from Judaism's classical period, probably written between AD 300 and...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Chukat (redirect from Numbers 21)
    see also Babylonian Talmud Yoma 67b. Numbers Rabbah 19:8. Numbers Rabbah 19:6. Exodus Rabbah 19:2. Exodus Rabbah 38:3. Mishnah Parah 1:1. Babylonian Talmud...
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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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    Shir ha-Shirim Rabbah (Hebrew: שיר השירים רבה) is an aggadic midrash on Song of Songs, quoted by Rashi under the title "Midrash Shir ha-Shirim". It is...
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    Balaam (category Book of Numbers people)
    Batra 15b Numbers Rabbah 20 ib. 7 Talmud, Berachot 7a Talmud, Zevachim 116a Avot of Rabbi Natan 2:5 Talmud Berachot l.c.; Taanit 20a; Numbers Rabbah 20:14...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    Ma'yan Gannim, ed. Buber, p. 92; compare Genesis Rabbah 30:9 Bava Batra l.c. Numbers Rabbah 14:7 Exodus Rabbah 12:4 Midrash Tehillim to Psalms 37 Avot of Rabbi...
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    764 compare Numbers 31 Numbers Rabbah 22:4 Numbers 25:6 Sanhedrin 82a Judges 18:30; Bava Batra 109b Leviticus Rabbah 26:7 Numbers Rabbah 23:4 Salonica...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    published 1885 Exodus Rabbah, Part II Numbers Rabbah, Part II Deuteronomy Rabbah in the standard printed edition Deuteronomy Rabbah, Lieberman edition Various...
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    Naso (parashah) (redirect from Numbers 5)
    Sotah 37b–38a. Numbers Rabbah 21:1. Babylonian Talmud Chullin 49a. Numbers Rabbah 11:5. Exodus Rabbah 37:2. Numbers Rabbah 22:4. Numbers Rabbah 13:5. Sifra...
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    Tehillim, printed material from other sources (the Pesiḳta Rabbati, Sifre, Numbers Rabbah, and the Babylonian Talmud) under the titles of the Psalms 123 and 131...
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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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    accordance with their practices..."". 24 June 2009. Midrash Numbers Rabbah ix. 25 Midrash Genesis Rabbah l.c. § 19 Hebrews 11:32–11:34 Newsome, Carol Ann; Ringe...
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    3, chapter Halakhot Mishmarot, Jerusalem 1987, p. 377 (Hebrew); cf. Numbers Rabbah 18:17) Compare Sifra Emor 13:1 and Menahot 77b; Sifra Ḳedoshim 2:5 and...
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