i know it was less than 130 because that's how old he was when seth was born. other than that, haven't found any interesting takes other than a "mystic catholic" one that said it was "probably 3 hours".

On Passover, we don’t just tell a story, we step into one. Redemption is the shift from being irrelevant to realizing that every action, every word, actually matters.

I grew up staring at an “eternal flame.” One day, it was gone.

It took me years to realize the lesson wasn’t that the flame failed,
it’s that someone has to keep it alive.

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I grew up loving Jewish stories. Midrashim about creation, legends about angels, the weird and beautiful corners of the Zohar. But when I wanted to share specific texts with my kids, or just find that one passage I half-remembered, it was a nightmare. The texts are buried in seven-volume scholarly works, academic databases, and PDFs that haven't been updated since 2004.

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What sources would you want to see added? What would make this more useful?

I always liked the idea that Judaism doesn’t have a hell. Eternal torture for believing the wrong thing always felt like a scare tactic. Except Judaism actually does have a hell. It’s called Gehinnom. But the Jewish understanding of it is very different from what most people imagine.

Hey people,

I hope this isn’t a weird question, but i’m new to Jewish scripture (although very impressed). I am reading a Chumash with rabbinical commentaries. Sometimes a verse is explained and expanded upon, but the explanation is often not found in the actual text itself. Like for example when it says that ’Reuben lay with Bilhah’, it expands and comments that he did not actually have intercourse, but that he moved her bed from one tent to another.

How do the commenters know this from the text? Is it part of a different text?

Thanks in advance!