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Lot's daughters. The daughters of the biblical patriarch Lot appear in chapter 19 of the Book of Genesis, in two connected stories. In the first, Lot offers his daughters to a Sodomite mob; in the second, his daughters have sex with Lot without his knowledge to bear him children. Only two daughters are explicitly mentioned in Genesis, both unnamed.
Vayeira, Vayera, or Va-yera ( וַיֵּרָא — Hebrew for "and He appeared," the first word in the parashah) is the fourth weekly Torah portion ( פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading. It constitutes Genesis 18:1–22:24. The parashah tells the stories of Abraham 's three visitors, Abraham's ...
Ten Martyrs. The Ten Martyrs ( Hebrew: עֲשֶׂרֶת הָרוּגֵי מַלְכוּת ʿAsereṯ hāRūgēy Malḵūṯ, "The Ten Royal Martyrs") were ten rabbis living during the era of the Mishnah who were martyred by the Roman Empire in the period after the destruction of the Second Temple. Their story is detailed in Midrash Eleh Ezkerah .
Renita J. Weems' Battered Love: Marriage, Sex, and Violence in the Hebrew Prophets (1995) on sexual violence in marriage metaphors in Hosea, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel. Jonathan Kirsch's The Harlot by the Side of the Road: Forbidden Tales of the Bible (1997) on Lot's daughters (Genesis 19), Dinah (Genesis 34), and Tamar (2 Samuel 13) as three rape ...
Midrash HaGadol (in English: the great midrash) (in Hebrew: מדרש הגדול) was written by Rabbi David Adani of Yemen (14th century). It is a compilation of aggadic midrashim on the Pentateuch taken from the two Talmuds and earlier Midrashim of Yemenite provenance.
Three Oaths. The Three Oaths is the popular name for a midrash found in the Talmud, [ 1] which relates that God adjured three oaths upon the world. Two of the oaths pertain to the Jewish people, and one of the oaths pertains to the other nations of the world. The Jews for their part were sworn not to forcefully reclaim the Land of Israel and ...
Adiel Kadari (2016): "Blessing and Midrash: Liturgical Texts as a Key to Interpretation in Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer," in "Prayer in Israel: New Aspects," edited by A. Ehrlich, Beer-Sheva, pages 327-340 (in Hebrew) Aviva Shosman (1980): "The Jewish Origin and Purpose of the Story of Abraham's Visits to Ishmael," Tarbiz 49, pages 325-345 (in Hebrew)
Pinechas (parashah) Pinechas, Pinchas, Pinhas, or Pin'has ( Hebrew: פִּינְחָס, romanized : Pinḥās "Phinehas": a name, the sixth word and the first distinctive word in the parashah) is the 41st weekly Torah portion ( פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the eighth in the Book of Numbers.