Bereshit Rabbah — 51
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Work: Midrash Rabbah
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Midrash Rabbah — selected PD Hebrew Genesis Rabbah
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[Bereshit Rabbah / 51 / 1] וה' המטיר על סדום ועל עמורה גפרית ואש וגו' - כתיב (תהלים נח) כמו שבלול תמס יהלך נפל אשת בל חזו שמש וגו' כהדין כיליי סיליי לימצא כשלושול הזה שהוא נמחה בצואה, כאישית זו שאינה מספקת לראות שמש, עד שהיא חוזרת לעפר, כאשת איש שזינתה והיא מתביישת שלא תראה עוברה והיא משליכתו בלילה קודם שלא תחזנה שמש, הה"ד: השמש יצא על הארץ ולוט בא צוערה: [Bereshit Rabbah / 51 / 2] וה' המטיר על סדום וגו' משל לשני מדינות שמרדו במלך אמר המלך תשרף אחת משלה וא' תשרף מטמיון כך להלן (ישעיה לד) ונהפכו נחליה לזפת ועפרה לגפרית ברם הכא וה' המטיר על סדום ועל עמורה וגו' אמר ר' אבון לשפחה שהיתה רודה פת בתנ…
- Source
- Midrash Rabbah — selected PD Hebrew Genesis Rabbah
- Rights
- Public domain
- Reading language
- heb
- Source language
- heb
- Completeness
- PARTIAL Midrash Rabbah witness: exact Daat Bereshit Rabbah Hebrew export only, with supplied nonempty Genesis Rabbah chapters/paragraphs. Other Rabbah books and empty chapters/paragraphs are absent, not reconstructed. Different ToratEmet and modern English editions lack exact open rights metadata and remain held. Actual coverage: 1 exact source components, 81 chapter/section passages, 837 nonempty original paragraph/verse rows. Reference labels are deterministic paths in the original JSON, not invented missing historical chapter numbers. Reader navigation uses actual source book, tractate or named section labels; source component order is retained in evidence.
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- Unverified edition; not Human Sealed
Recorded provenance: Unchanged original JSON embedded in explicit multi-source container. Reading body uses deterministic native wp_strip_all_tags, grouped by original parent array/section, with source-path labels and two-LF passage separators. Source component identities and native exact rights are retained. PARTIAL Midrash Rabbah witness: exact Daat Bereshit Rabbah Hebrew export only, with supplied nonempty Genesis Rabbah chapters/paragraphs. Other Rabbah books and empty chapters/paragraphs are absent, not reconstructed. Different ToratEmet and modern English editions lack exact open rights metadata and remain held. Actual coverage: 1 exact source components, 81 chapter/section passages, 837 nonempty original paragraph/verse rows. Reference labels are deterministic paths in the original JSON, not invented missing historical chapter numbers. Reader navigation uses actual source book, tractate or named section labels; source component order is retained in evidence.
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