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Bereshit Rabbah — 21

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Work: Midrash Rabbah

Passage referenceBereshit Rabbah — 21
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Midrash Rabbah — selected PD Hebrew Genesis Rabbah

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[Bereshit Rabbah / 21 / 1] ויאמר ה' אלהים הן האדם היה כאחד ממנו וגו'. כתיב (דניאל ח) ואשמע אחד קדוש מדבר ויאמר [אחד קדוש] לפלמוני המדבר וגו'. ואשמע אחד, זה הקב"ה, שנאמר (דברים ו): שמע ישראל ה' אלהינו ה' אחד. קדוש, כי הכל אומרים לפניו קדוש. מדבר, גזר גזירות קשות על בריותיו, וקוץ ודרדר תצמיח לך. ויאמר אחד קדוש לפלמוני המדבר. רבי הונא, לפלניא. תירגם עקילס, לפנימי, זה אדם הראשון, שהיתה מחיצתו לפנים ממלאכי השרת, (דניאל ח) עד מתי החזון התמיד, גזרה, שנגזרה על אדם הראשון לעולם היתה, אתמהא?! (שם) והפשע שומם כך יהיה, פשעו שומם עליו בקבר?! תת וקדש וצבא מרמס, כך יהיה הוא ותולדותיו עשויים מרמס, לפני מלאך ה…
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Midrash Rabbah — selected PD Hebrew Genesis Rabbah
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Public domain
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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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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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