According to the Midrash, he came into the world on the same day that Rabbi Akiva died a martyr's death.

According to the Midrash, the plural form of the word " weeping " indicates the double sorrow that Rebecca also died at this time.

According to the Talmud, the Midrash, and the Kabbalistic work, the Zohar, the ' deadline ' by which the Messiah must appear is 6000 years from creation.

According to the Midrash, only the Pharaoh was spared to give testimony to the miracle that occurred.

According to Midrash Tehillim, the shamir was brought from paradise by Solomon's eagle ; but most of the rabbis state that Solomon was informed of the worm's haunts by Asmodeus.

According to Jewish tradition in the Midrash and the Targum, the book is an allegory of God's love for the Children of Israel.

According to a Midrash, the Torah was created prior to the creation of the world, and was used as the blueprint for Creation.

According to Ramaz, it is fit to be called Midrash haNe ' elam because " its topic is mostly the neshamah ( an upper level of soul ), the source of which is in Beri ' ah, which is the place of the upper Gan Eden ; and it is written in the Pardes that drash is in Beri ' ah ... and the revealed midrash is the secret of externality, and Midrash haNe ' elam is the secret of internality, which is the neshamah.

According to another Midrash, Doeg the Edomite tried to preserve the life of Agag, the king of the Amalekites-Edomites, by interpreting Lev.

According to the Midrash, many families in the other Israelite tribes were descended from women from Simeon, which had been widowed from their original Simeonite husbands.

According to the Midrash, Sisera engaged in sexual intercourse with Jael seven times, but because she was attempting to exhaust him in order to kill him, her sin was for Heaven's sake and therefore praiseworthy.

According to the Midrash, the Patriarchs were buried in the cave because the cave is the threshold to the Garden of Eden.

According to one Midrash, it was God, or the angels, who gathered the animals to the ark, together with their food.

According to the Talmud, the Midrash, and the medieval kabbalistic work, the Zohar, the messiah must arrive before the year 6000 from the time of creation, or before the year 2240 CE.

According to a tradition which has historical confirmation, it was Akiva who systematized and brought into methodic arrangement the Mishnah, or Halakah codex ; the Midrash, or the exegesis of the Halakah ; and the Halakot, the logical amplification of the Halakah ( Yer.

According to the Midrash, all divine commandments were given on Mount Sinai, and no prophet could add any new one.

According to Midrash Leviticus rabbah he said " As in a theater and circus the statues of the king must be kept clean by him to whom they have been entrusted, so the bathing of the body is a duty of man, who was created in the image of the almighty King of the world.

According to the Midrash Pirke R. El.

According to the Midrash, the ladder signified the exiles which the Jewish people would suffer before the coming of the Messiah.

* According to the Midrash, the first person to pray at Rachel's tomb was her eldest son, Joseph.

According to the Midrash, Simeon and Levi were only 14 and 13 years old, respectively, at the time of the rape of Dinah.

According to the Jewish Midrash, " Jerusalem has 70 names ".

According to many scholars it only comprises a small number of monosyllabic lexical roots, including the personal pronouns and a few other deictic and auxiliary items.

According to the original press release from Colangelo's group ( which remained posted on the team website during the first few seasons ) the chosen team colors were Arizona turquoise, copper, black and purple.

According to Mike Dash, a Welsh historian, few scientists doubt there are thousands of unknown animals, particularly invertebrates, awaiting discovery ; however, cryptozoologists are largely uninterested in researching and cataloging newly-discovered species of ants or beetles, instead focusing their efforts towards " more elusive " creatures that have often defied decades of work aimed at confirming their existence.

According to some fans, a tour guide explained that Jerry Jones invited a few professional soccer players to drop kick soccer balls to try to hit the screen.

According to Gay, Herbert had relatively few followers, and it was not until the 1680s that Herbert found a true successor in Charles Blount ( 1654 – 1693 ).

According to Lewnes ' UNICEF report, it is unknown how many girls and women die from the procedure because " few records are kept " and fatalities caused by FGM " are rarely reported as such ".

According to Groucho, when Shean visited he would throw the local waifs a few coins so that when he knocked at the door he would be surrounded by adoring fans.

According to World Bank statistics, the services sector is one of the few sectors of Haiti's economy that sustained steady, if modest, growth throughout the 1990s.

According to a statement in July 2009 by a legal counsel of the Honduras military, Colonel Herberth Bayardo Inestroza, the Honduran military was opposed to President Manuel Zelaya, whom the military had removed from Honduras a few days earlier, because of his left-wing politics.

According to Polybius he arrived in Italy accompanied by 20, 000 foot soldiers and 4, 000 horsemen, and only a few elephants.

According to the very few written documents that have survived, the church in Finland was still in its early development in the 12th century.

According to the Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry, a small amount of ingested lead ( 1 %) will store itself in bones, and the rest will be excreted by an adult through urine and feces within a few weeks of exposure.

According to his aunt, his family did not own a ranch but did own one cow and four or five horses on a few acres of land outside the city.

According to the Neumark and Wascher, a large majority of the studies show negative effects for the minimum wage ; those showing positive effects are few, questionable, and disproportionately discussed.

According to the Israel Antiquities Authority, " The artifacts recovered from inside the building were few and mostly included fragments of pottery vessels from the Early Roman period ( the first and second centuries AD )... Another hewn pit, whose entrance was apparently camouflaged, was excavated and a few pottery sherds from the Early Roman period were found inside it.

According to the Pagan Federation of Canada: ' Over the last few decades, many people have thought that the emphasis on male / female polarity in Wicca excludes homosexuals '.

According to Stephen Sondheim, " What few people understand is that Oscar's big contribution to the theater was as a theoretician, as a Peter Brook, as an innovator.

" According to a later description, " Like all cultural watersheds, Ramones was embraced by a discerning few and slagged off as a bad joke by the uncomprehending majority.

According to Intel, there were a few missing entries in the lookup table used by the digital divide operation algorithm.

According to Stephen Metcalf, Nozick expresses serious misgivings about capitalist libertarianism, going so far as to reject much of the foundations of the theory on the grounds that personal freedom can sometimes only be fully actualized via a collectivist politics and that wealth is at times justly redistributed via taxation to protect the freedom of the many from the potential tyranny of an overly selfish and powerful few.

According to France Bučar, one of the founding fathers of Slovenian democracy and independence, the democracy in Slovenia is very weak, with the power concentrated in the hands of a few people, as in the time of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia before 1991, and the Parliament being only a formal institution.

According to Israel Finkelstein and Neil Silberman, authors of The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts, at the time of the kingdoms of David and Solomon, Jerusalem was populated by only few hundred residents or less, which is insufficient for an empire stretching from the Euphrates to Eilath.

According to halakha, Shabbat is observed from a few minutes before sunset on Friday evening until the appearance of three stars in the sky on Saturday night.

According to Jewish law, Shabbat starts a few minutes before sunset.