He was succeeded by his son as well, also called Rabbah.

Both the Genesis Rabbah and Talmud state that Tamar was an Israelite, and that Judah ended up marrying her and had further sexual liaisons with her as a result.

Compassion for the brute is declared to have been the merit of Moses which made him the shepherd of his people ( Exodus Rabbah 2 ), while Judah ha-Nasi saw in his own ailment the punishment for having once failed to show compassion for a frightened calf.

And make a signpost, make it for a fork in the road leading to a city ; mark out the road for the sword to come to Rabbah of the Ammonites or to Judah and to Jerusalem the fortified.

The Jewish calendar's epoch ( reference date ), 1 Tishrei 1 AM, is equivalent to Monday, 7 October 3761 BCE in the proleptic Julian calendar, the equivalent tabular date ( same daylight period ) and is about one year before the traditional Jewish date of Creation on 25 Elul AM 1, based upon the Seder Olam Rabbah of Rabbi Yossi ben Halafta, a 2nd century CE sage.

Rabbi Simon ben Pazzi ( 3rd century ) calls these readings " emendations of the Scribes " ( tikkune Soferim ; Midrash Genesis Rabbah xlix.

The earliest post-exilic Jewish chronicle preserved in the Hebrew language, the Seder Olam Rabbah, compiled by Jose ben Halafta in 160 AD, dates the creation of the world to 3751 BC while the later Seder Olam Zutta to 4339 BC.

It is a specially noteworthy fact that in certain cases the exilarch judged according to the Persian law Kamma 58b ; and it was the exilarch ' Ukba b. Nehemiah who communicated to the head of the school of Pumbedita, Rabbah ben Nahmai, three Persian statutes which Samuel recognized as binding Batra 55a.

" Love your neighbor as yourself ," states the Bible (), an injunction that Akiva ben Joseph in Genesis Rabbah 24: 7 famously calls a " great principle " of the Torah ( or perhaps " the greatest principle ").

There is a minority view among Rabbinical scholars, for instance that of Rabbi Simeon ben Laqish, that says Job never existed ( Midrash Genesis Rabbah LXVII ).

Since before 3925 AM ( 165 AD ), years in the Hebrew calendar have been counted from the Creation year based on the calculation in the Seder Olam Rabbah of Rabbi Jose ben Halafta in about 160 AD.

According to the midrash Canticles Rabbah, it was Ezekiel whom the three pious men, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah ( also called Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the Bible ) asked for advice as to whether they should resist Nebuchadnezzar's command and choose death by fire rather than worship his idol.

Rabbah was born into a priestly family, and studied at both the academies in Sura and Pumbedita.

Rabbah was hated by many religiously lax residents of Pumbedita for his outspokenness, but loved by his students.

In this literature, Balaam gradually acquired a position among the non-Jews, which was exalted as much as that of Moses among the Jews ( Midrash Numbers Rabbah 20 ); at first being a mere interpreter of dreams, but later becoming a magician, until finally the spirit of prophecy descended upon him ( ib.

The Seder Olam Rabbah ( second century AD ), stated that this verse meant that the counting was not to start until after the Israelites had gained control of Canaan, which the Seder Olam, based upon received tradition, placed at 14 years after their entry into the land.

One representative teaching is that " Derech eretz comes before Torah " ( Midrash Vayikra Rabbah 9: 3 ) – one cannot personify Torah until he demonstrates derech eretz in everything that he does.

There is a Kabbalistic belief that, though judgment is made absolute on Yom Kippur, it is not registered until the seventh day of Sukkot, known as Hoshana Rabbah.

The Zohar says that while the judgment for the new year is sealed on Yom Kippur, it is not " delivered " until the end of Sukkot ( i. e., Hoshana Rabbah, the last day of Sukkot ), during which time one can still alter their verdict and decree for the new year.

Tashlikh (, meaning " casting off ") is a long-standing Jewish practice usually performed on the afternoon of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, however it can be said up until Hoshana Rabbah.

It has been noted that the traditional account of Jewish history shows a discontinuity in the beginning of the 35th century: The account of Seder Olam Rabbah is complete only until this time.

In Esther Rabbah, Evil-Merodach, owing to his father's actions before his death, is heir to a bankrupt treasury.

( It should be noted that in the account given of the same events, in rabbinic sources ( b. Talmud Shabbat 99a ; Exodus Rabbah 41 ) and in the Qur ' an, Aaron is not the idol-maker and upon Moses ' return begged his pardon as he had felt mortally threatened by the Israelites ( Quran 7: 142-152 ).

The Exodus Rabbah argues that when the Pharaoh instructed midwives to throw male children into the Nile, Amram divorced Jochebed, who was three months pregnant with Moses at the time, arguing that there was no justification for the Israelite men to father children if they were just to be killed ; however, the text goes on to state that Miriam, his daughter, chided him for his lack of care for his wife's feelings, persuading him to recant and marry Jochebed again.

The Ark was with the army during the siege of Rabbah ( 2 Sam.

Traditional Jewish exegesis such as Midrash ( Genesis Rabbah 38 ) says that Adam spoke Hebrew because the names he gives Eve-" Isha " ( Book of Genesis 2: 23 ) and " Chava " ( Genesis 3: 20 )-only make sense in Hebrew.

Maimonides was not the first Jewish thinker to criticise concubinage ; for example, it is severely condemned in Leviticus Rabbah.

David sends for Uriah, who is with the Israelite army at the siege of Rabbah, so that he may lie with his wife and conceal the identity of the child's father.

This is to ensure that Yom Kippur does not directly precede or follow Shabbat, which would create practical difficulties, and that Hoshana Rabbah is not on a Shabbat, in which case certain ceremonies would be lost for a year.

The Seder Olam Rabbah also recognized the importance of the Jubilee and Sabbatical cycles as a long-term calendrical system, and attempted at various places to fit the Sabbatical and Jubilee years into its chronological scheme.

18 ) is construed as a reference to Joshua ( Midrash Numbers Rabbah xii.

2 ; Numbers Rabbah xii.

Hoshanah Rabbah is traditionally taken to be the day of the " delivery " of the final judgment of Yom Kippur, and offers a last opportunity for pleas of repentance before the holiday season closes.

It consists of two sections, Seder Eliyahu Rabbah and Seder Eliyahu Zuta.

* Midrash Rabbah.

** Bereshith Rabba, Genesis Rabbah.

Lamentations Rabbah has been transmitted in two versions.

), Midrash Rabbah, 10 volumes, The Soncino Press, London, 1983.

A Midrash ( Genesis Rabbah Sect.

The seventh day of Sukkot is called Hoshana Rabbah (" Great Hoshana ", referring to the tradition that worshippers in the synagogue walk around the perimeter of the sanctuary during morning services ) and has a special observance of its own.

According to some Jewish traditions ( e. g., B. Talmud Nedarim 32b ; Genesis Rabbah 46: 7 ; Genesis Rabbah 56: 10 ; Leviticus Rabbah 25: 6 ; Numbers Rabbah 4: 8.