Midrashic Mysteries index page

(1)
What part did the red heifer have in Korach’s challenge to Moshe’s authority?
(2)
Why do some women dominate their husbands?
(3)
How did Moshe use the bones of Yosef as an argument that he should be allowed to enter Eretz Yisrael?
(4)
Question 4 not yet translated Why was Eliezer successful in his mission of taking a wife for Yitzchok?
(5)
Question 5 not yet translated Why was Dovid Hamelech distressed because of his sin with Bas Sheva until he learned the beginning of the masechta Kesuvos?
(6)
Question 6 not yet translated Why did Yisrael make an agreement between themselves to do acts of loving-kindness with each other when they went out from Egypt?
(7)
Question 7 not yet translated How can every Jew keep the entire Torah, even nowadays?
(8)
Question 8 not yet translated Why is repeating the teachings of a Tzaddik in order to keep his merit alive with us a better solution than mummifying his body?
(9)
Question 9 not yet translated What did Esther learn from Shaul Hamelech, Shlomo Hamelech and Dovid Hamelech which prompted her to invite Haman to her feast with Achashverosh?
(10)
Question 10 not yet translated Why did Moshe Rabbeinu have to be buried outside of Eretz Yisrael in order that the generation of the wilderness will be able to rise at the time of the resurrection of the dead?
(11)
Question 11 not yet translated When is it not only permissible but even preferable to serve Hashem in order to receive reward?
(12)
When do Yisrael require neither a shield nor a spear to protect themselves from the enemy?
(13)
Question 13 not yet translated Why does the punishment for transgressing the Oral Law and the teachings of the Rabbis need to be more severe than the punishment for transgressing that which is written explicitly in the Torah?
(14)
Why would Moshe have been allowed to enter Eretz Yisrael if he had prayed one more time?
(15)
Why did the Jews of the Purim generation deserve to be punished with extermination?
(16)
Question 16 not yet translated Did the miracles of Megillas Esther take place within the laws of nature or outside of them?
(17)
Question 17 not yet translated What are the five possible reasons why Yisrael deserved to be annihilated by Haman?
(18)
Question 18 not yet translated What arguments did Esther use to prove that Yisrael should not be punished because of the sale of Yosef?
(19)
On which day does one perform the circumcision?
(20)
Question 20 not yet translated How is the mitzvah of separating challah a disaffirmation of idol worship?
(21)
Question 21 not yet translated How did the fact that Yosef was sold by fellow Jews help us to be redeemed from Egypt?
(22)
Question 22 not yet translated How did Dovid Hamelech help remediate Yehudah?
(23)
One does not put on tefillin except on Shabbos?!
(24)
Where does the Torah allude to the days on which we say the complete Hallel?
(25)
Question 25 not yet translated Chazal teach that Hashem is considered to be a Kohen, so to speak, but is He a Kohen Gadol or an ordinary Kohen?
(26)
What is the connection between the binding of Yitzchok and the ten days of repentance?
(27)
Question 27 not yet translated Why do we learn that an individual can repent from Dovid Hamelech and not from Kayin?
(28)
Question 28 not yet translated Why did Iyov become concerned when he heard about the death of the two sons of Aharon?
(29)
Which day was missing from the first year of creation?
(30)
In what way is Pesach similar to Yom Kippur?
(31)
Why will the mitzvah of polishing our shoes on Erev Shabbos cause us to grieve in the future?
(32)
Question 32 not yet translated Why when someone greets us with “Shalom Aleichem” do we respond with “Aleichem Shalom”, and not with “Shalom Aleichem” the same as the greeting?
(33)
Question 33 not yet translated When is it permitted to begin a sentence with Hashem’s name?
(34)
Question 34 not yet translated Why does it say in Shiras Hayam that Yisrael believed both in Hashem and in Moshe, His servant?
(35)
Where does the Torah allude to the construction of the menorah?
(36)
Question 36 not yet translated What are the eighty openings of the sixty masechtas that the Midrash refers to?
(37)
Question 37 not yet translated Why was the day that the Beis Hamikdash was destroyed such a festive occasion?
(43)
Why did Adam start to speak Aramaic?
(44)
What is the connection between the mitzvah of sending away the mother bird and the mitzvah of learning Torah?
(45)
Why could the Mishkan not have been sanctified by the death of Moshe, rather than by the death of Nadav and Avihu?
(61)
What did Adam HaRishon see that caused him to sin?
62)
One wears tefillin only on Shabbos?!
(65)
Where does the Torah allude that Hashem does not accept the prayers of a murderer?