Pesikta De-Rab Kahana

A midrashic work based pon the haftarah and Torah readings for special Sabbaths, holidays and the ten Sabbaths.

Introduction to the New Edition

xi

Introduction

xxxiii

Contents

xxxiii

Origins, Uses, and Purposes

xxxiii

A Running Summary

xxxvi

The Basic Narrative

xli

Doctrines

xlvi

Matters Biographical, Historical, and Factual

lv

Structure

lxi

The Methods of Discourse in the Piska

lxi

Norms of Exegesis

lxxiv

The Text

lxxxv

The History of the Text and Its Compiler

lxxxv

The Pesikta de-Rab Kahana and Its Contemporary Midrashim

xc

The Translation

xciii

Why God, having withdrawn from the earth, came back to it. Dwelling thereon in the Tabernacle, by His presence He sanctified it for ever

3

(24)

How did the children of Israel who had committed the sin of making the golden calf come to the merit of having the Tabernacle in their midst?

27

(23)

The role of Amalek

50

(27)

The mystery and paradox of the Red Heifer

77

(39)

Israel's reckoning of time by the moon; the advent of the new moon in Nisan as the time of Israel's redemption

116

(48)

Offerings serve men's needs, not God's

164

(21)

God's justice on the Passover midnight

185

(20)

The omer as asserting that God alone is the source of substance

205

(16)

The infinite range of God's mercy

221

(26)

Tithe that you may be blithe

247

(19)

The awesome doings of God and the radiance of certain personages in Israel

266

(32)

Torah and its range of eternal meaning

298

(37)

Israel are to occupy themselves with matters right and proper for them, or else become wanderers

335

(20)

God's mild reproach of Israel, and the happy consequences of hearkening to Him

355

(11)

Lament for Jerusalem

366

(16)

The certainty of God's comforting

382

(22)

Why Zion should not despair

404

(17)

The comforting and rebuilding of Jerusalem

421

(9)

Israel's obedience to three basic commands makes her worthy of being God's own people

430

(12)

Jerusalem's ultimate distinction and glory

442

(10)

The radiance of Zion and God's bestowal of light

452

(8)

The universal joy and glory which will come at the time of Israel's vindication

460

(9)

From judgment to mercy

469

(17)

On repentance

486

(30)

God's acts of patience

516

(7)

On God's judgment

523

(25)

Lessons of the Feast of Sukkot

548

(19)

The Eighth-Day Festival as exemplifying God's gracious dealing with Israel

567

(27)

Supplement 1

594

(21)

Supplement 2

615

(18)

Supplement 3

633

(6)

Supplement 4

639

(3)

Supplement 5

642

(7)

Supplement 6

649

(6)

Supplement 7

655

(4)

Abbreviations

659

(10)

Glossary

669

(11)

Passages Cited

680

(27)

Authorities Cited

707

(11)

Subjects and Names

718

(67)

Plays on Words and Letters

785

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