Midrash Tanchuma questions the central motif of our Parsha – the Menorah. We take for granted that it was an integral part of the Mishkan and the Temple of Jerusalem. However the Midrash seems to find ...

Jerusalem-based author and teacher Tamar Biala birthed a contemporary oeuvre of midrashim that could legitimately stand alongside those of the ancient rabbis in their canon of Midrash. As a scholar ...

Our “Evil Inclination,” crafty but conquerable? The snake underestimated the fact that G-d was on to him. When you think about it, the crafty snake was pretty dumb thinking that G-d isn’t watching.

I remember reading midrash as a child at my Schechter day school. While we explored the stories of the Tanakh through the eyes and words of the rabbis, my teachers emphasized the power of midrash as a ...

When teaching midrash, I enjoy showing how paintings are just as much midrash as classical rabbinical texts. A Renaissance painter, Bacchiacca (1494-1557), depicted Eve lovingly holding Abel aloft, ...

When I was in college, I fell in love with midrash. It wasn’t something I had grown up with, and one might say I came in through a back door, a secret pathway of sorts. I had never even heard the word ...

Beit Midrash established at site where Binyamin Achimeir was murderedDvir Amar A new Beit Midrash, 'Nachalat Binyamin,’ was established at the site where Binyamin Achimeir was murdered, near the Gal ...