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- ...rson are familiar not because they have been studied in Tanchuma, Bereshit Rabbah or any other primary source, but via Rashi's commentary.</fn> Rashi's super ...urce">84:19</a><a href="Bereshit Rabbah" data-aht="parshan">About Bereshit Rabbah</a></multilink> on <a href="Bereshit24-25-26" data-aht="source">Bereshit 2475 KB (10,263 words) - 10:39, 24 May 2023
- ...ource">26:5</a><a href="Bereshit Rabbah" data-aht="parshan">About Bereshit Rabbah</a></multilink>, R. Saadia, <multilink><a href="RashiBereshit6-2" data-aht= ...the language of "וַיִּקְחוּ".  Rashi, following R. Yudin in Bereshit Rabbah, sees in the defective spelling of "טֹבֹת" a hint that the judges woul43 KB (6,434 words) - 13:12, 26 November 2020
- <h1>Esther's Religious Identity</h1> ...xmlid="Esther2-5-7" book="English Esther" ref="2,5,7" mgtype="Tanakh" url="Esther/2.5$$e1">58 KB (2,895 words) - 20:46, 13 January 2020
- ...ah Rabbah 1:41, Tanchuma Emor 3, Midrash Shemuel 24:8, and compare Vayikra Rabbah 26:8) asserts that any time the word "וַיֹּאמֶר" appears twice one ...Janach, Sefer HaRikmah Gate 26.</fn> <a href="Esther7-5" data-aht="source">Esther 7:5</a>,<fn>See <multilink><a href="RYosefBekhorShorBereshit30-28" data-aht89 KB (12,725 words) - 13:40, 17 January 2024
- ..."source">11:5</a><a href="Vayikra Rabbah" data-aht="parshan">About Vayikra Rabbah</a></multilink>, <multilink><a href="PsJBereshit15-13" data-aht="source">Ta ...abbah" data-aht="parshan">About Vayikra Rabbah</a></multilink>,<fn>Vayikra Rabbah, Tanchuma, and Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer all note that "‏יָדֹעַ ת76 KB (11,772 words) - 11:28, 28 January 2023
- ...a Persian loan word, first appearing as an independent word in the Book of Esther, where it means law or decree. The term appears only once earlier in Tanakh ...urce">9</a><a href="Seder Olam Rabbah" data-aht="parshan">About Seder Olam Rabbah</a></multilink> explains that here, too, the verse refers to Rosh Chodesh.<158 KB (21,927 words) - 04:08, 3 April 2024
- ...a full 430 years of slavery. In contrast, the parallel account in Bereshit Rabbah 61:7 speaks of 210 years. For more see <a href="Reparations and Despoiling ...dividuals. The Hoil Moshe also cites the example of Mordechai's lineage in Esther 2:8, and the comments of the Talmud Bavli Megillah 12b.</fn></point>77 KB (11,200 words) - 12:16, 28 January 2023
- ...of "זֶה הַדָּבָר" stands in contrast to the Midrashic approach of Bereshit Rabbah cited by Rashi.<fn>A small group of Rashi manuscripts contain an interpolat ..., its content matches R"Y Kara's interpretations in both Vayikra 26:43 and Esther 7:5 (MS Hamburg 32).</fn></li>27 KB (4,012 words) - 22:23, 6 May 2024
- ...xmlid="Esther3-1-6" book="English Esther" ref="3,1,6" mgtype="Tanakh" url="Esther/3.1$$e1"> <h3 xml:lang="EN">Esther 3:1-6</h3>65 KB (4,129 words) - 10:27, 16 December 2020
- ...<a href="BereshitRabbah26-5" data-aht="source">כ״ו:ה׳</a><a href="Bereshit Rabbah" data-aht="parshan">אודות בראשית רבה</a></multilink>, רס"ג ...the language of "וַיִּקְחוּ".  Rashi, following R. Yudin in Bereshit Rabbah, sees in the defective spelling of "טֹבֹת" a hint that the judges woul43 KB (6,164 words) - 14:00, 24 July 2019
- ...xmlid="Esther2-5-7" book="English Esther" ref="2,5,7" mgtype="Tanakh" url="Esther/2.5$$e1"> <h3 xml:lang="EN">Esther 2:5-7</h3>52 KB (1,584 words) - 20:46, 13 January 2020
- ...לְמַהֵר לְשַׁלְּחָם מִן הָאָרֶץ כִּי אָמְרוּ כֻּלָּנוּ מֵתִים"). Also see Esther 9:3 for a parallel case in which where fear is the explicit motivation.</fn ...nk> who identify the gold and silver objects as drinking vessels (see also Esther 1:7), and see the footnote above for the interpretation that they were idol63 KB (9,437 words) - 12:14, 28 January 2023
- ...xmlid="Esther2-5-7" book="English Esther" ref="2,5,7" mgtype="Tanakh" url="Esther/2.5$$e1"> <h3 xml:lang="EN">Esther 2:5-7</h3>88 KB (3,700 words) - 17:57, 19 January 2020
- ...supported by Achashverosh's tax in <a href="Esther10-1" data-aht="source">Esther 10:1</a>.</fn> understand that this refers to a labor tax.<fn>This seems to ...t="source">5:16</a><a href="Shemot Rabbah" data-aht="parshan">About Shemot Rabbah</a></multilink>, suggests that the Tribe of Levi was exempt from the enslav26 KB (3,841 words) - 06:58, 14 September 2018
- ...o Esther,<fn>In his introduction to the edition of the GRA’s commentary to Esther published in Jerusalem 1992, C.D. Nobel attributes the work to a student an ...adot of the Talmud,<fn>Including a booklet of commentary on the Aggadot of Rabbah Bar Bar Chanah. See Tzuriel, Otzerot: 34.</fn> Seder Olam, the Minor Tracta27 KB (4,202 words) - 20:45, 30 July 2015
- ...6</a><a href="Shir HaShirim Rabbah" data-aht="parshan">About Shir HaShirim Rabbah</a></multilink>, <multilink><a href="SederEliyahuZuta8" data-aht="sour ...hat is it that you would like".<i><fn>It parallels Achashverosh's words to Esther, "מַה לָּךְ אֶסְתֵּר," which are explained in the continuat35 KB (5,107 words) - 02:22, 12 February 2019
- ..."...<b>וַיְחִי</b> פלוני... וַיְחִי פלוני".  According to Seder Olam Rabbah, it was in Peleg's time period that the story of the Towel of Bavel and dis ...commentators suggest that either one or both verbs express the future, for Esther is speaking of the possibility that she might die, not that she has already53 KB (7,018 words) - 11:28, 4 November 2023
- ...lid="Esther3-8-15" book="English Esther" ref="3,8,15" mgtype="Tanakh" url="Esther/3.8$$e1"> <h3 xml:lang="EN">Esther 3:8-15</h3>65 KB (1,323 words) - 20:46, 13 January 2020
- ...20" book="Seder Olam Rabbah" ref="20" mgtype="Library" url="?r1=Seder Olam Rabbah 20"> <h3 xml:lang="EN">Seder Olam Rabbah 20</h3>87 KB (5,223 words) - 05:30, 30 June 2020
- <h1>Esther's Relations with Achashverosh</h1> ...lid="Esther2-7-20" book="English Esther" ref="2,7,20" mgtype="Tanakh" url="Esther/2.7$$e1">109 KB (5,943 words) - 17:57, 19 January 2020