Bereshit Rabbah — 60
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Work: Midrash Rabbah
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Midrash Rabbah — selected PD Hebrew Genesis Rabbah
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[Bereshit Rabbah / 60 / 1] ויאמר ה' אלהי אברהם הקרה נא לפני היום וגו' - (ישעיה נ) מי בכם ירא ה' שומע בקול עבדו אמר: מי בכם ירא ה', זה אברהם. שומע בקול עבדו וגו', אשר שמע הקב"ה בקולו של עבדו. אשר הלך חשכים, שבא מאספמיא ומחברותיה, ולא היה יודע היכן, כאדם שהוא שרוי בחושך. ואין נוגה לו ומי היה מאיר לו? הקדוש ברוך הוא היה מאיר לו, בכל מקום שהיה הולך. יבטח בשם ה' וישען באלהיו, ומצאת את לבבו נאמן לפניך. דבר אחר: מי בכם ירא ה', זה אליעזר. שומע בקול עבדו, בקול אברהם, שהיה עבד להקב"ה, שנאמר (בראשית כו): בעבור אברהם עבדי. אשר הלך חשכים, בשעה שהלך להביא את רבקה. ואין נוגה לו ומי היה מאיר לו? הקדוש ברוך הו…
- 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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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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