Ep 181 What’s the Point of the Midrash? Vayigash 2016




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Summary: This week Silicon Valley veteran Elissa Shevinsky pops in to talk about missing persons. Check out a book Elissa edited: Lean Out: The Struggle for Gender Equality in Tech and Start-Up Culture. Midrash Rabbah – Genesis XCIV:9 9. ALL THE SOULS BELONGING TO JACOB… WERE THREE-SCORE AND SIX. AND THE SONS OF JOSEPH… WERE TWO SOULS. ALL THE SOULS OF THE HOUSE OF JACOB THAT CAME INTO EGYPT WERE THREESCORE AND TEN (XLVI, 26 f.).   R. Levi said in the name of R. Samuel b. Nahman: Have you ever seen a man give his neighbour sixty-six glasses, then give him another three and count them seventy? But the extra … Continue reading →