Jewish Texts

The grandson of Rashi and leader of medieval French Jewry.

This section of the Mishnah is one of the best-known and most cited of Jewish texts.

A master Torah commentator who foreshadowed biblical criticism

It helps to know what lies behind the muted bindings and the denominational labels of today's wide array of possibilities.

Midrash explains how Moses could be happy with dying.

Exploring Moses and Aaron's confrontation with Pharaoh

Finding midrash in current events, your local synagogue and your movie theater.

What if there is no valley of the shadow of death?

A compilation of aggadic (narrative) and halachic (legal) midrash

The midrash rounds out the biblical figures Abraham and Sarah